Sharing our experience with other Housing Organisations

Sharing our experience with other Housing Organisations

Hi all!

Well the TMT (Tenant Management Team) have been busy over the last few months not only have we been scrutinising NC business we were also invited to Cumbria to speak to a Federation of tenants that are going down the scrutiny pathway.

They were scared, just like we were in the beginning, but after our meeting and question and answer section, they all seemed to feel a lot better about taking on this role.

We were also asked to do a workshop at the TPAS (Tenant Participation Advisory Service) annual conference in Birmingham. We usually go there to learn, this time we were teaching!! We were very well received and our workshop sessions were oversubscribed with extra tables and chairs being brought in and people even standing at the back! From the feedback we received tenants found our workshop one of the best of the weekend, so we feel very proud of our achievements.

Since then we have been invited to Lincolnshire to speak to another group of tenants on the first steps of scrutiny, to offer advice and assistance. Then we were invited back to speak to the Directors of this company so they could come to terms with what scrutiny means to them and to the company. Most recently we have been asked to speak at a conference in Liverpool where many landlords will be in attendance.
All in all TMT are gaining a reputation of being trailblazers in this field and are being invited all over the country to speak about what we have achieved.

We would like to thank Sue Cox (NCHT) for all her help in the administration side of things and to Carol Middleton for her role as mentor. Sadly Carol has left us now as we no longer need her help and support as she has done such a great job in training us, so good luck Carol for the future.