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New recruits join the Residents’ Association Executive Committee
Tuesday, December 22 2009
The residents had put themselves forward as part of the open nomination process which all residents were invited to take part in.
There were five vacancies on the Executive Committee this year. Two members were standing for re-election and with three new nominees, all five were
automatically elected at the AGM to serve for a three year term.
Have a look at the Residents’ Association members page to read about the new members and the existing ones.
What did we achieve last year?
o We recruited five new members onto the Executive Committee;
o Developed an action plan for the year ahead
o Made changes to our constitution
o Put forward residents’ views to the government about new standards for housing.
o Campaigned for the gardening help scheme for elderly and disabled residents to be done in-house to provide a more caring service;
o Worked to improve the grounds maintenance service;
o Job shadowed MDHA staff to find out more about their work;
o Worked with the Association to write a Vulnerability Policy and Single Equality Scheme.
o Three members started Active Learning for Residents training to develop skills to work with local communities.
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Go smoke free in 2010
Monday, December 21 2009
Solutions4Health is working in partnership with the NHS to offer free stop smoking clinics every Monday throughout January 2010 at Maidenhead & District Housing Association offices in Waldeck Road, Maidenhead. Qualified staff will be on hand to give advice on weight and stress management, healthy eating and diabetes. There will also be one to one sessions to offer support and free nicotine replacement products such as patches and chewing gum. Just turn up - The clinics will be held in the Mobile Office car park from 9am to 4pm every Monday in January.
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Audit Commission is recruiting for new Tenant Inspection Advisers. Closing date is 11 December 2009
Thursday, December 03 2009
The Audit Commission are looking to recruit Tenant Inspection Advisers (TIAs) form four regional pools, which our staff draw on periodically to carry out inspection and assessment work. TIAs join their inspection teams specifically to provide the viewpoint of tenants, leaseholders and customers on the quality of housing services delivered by housing providers. They also work on the inspection of benefit services delivered by local authorities.
As a Tenant Inspection Adviser, you’ll team up with Audit Commission inspectors and performance specialists, possibly but not definitely in the area where you live, to take part in housing and benefits inspections. These could be housing association inspections, local authority housing management service inspections, homelessness and housing advice inspections and benefit services inspections.
The role of Tenant Inspection Adviser is an excellent opportunity for you to deepen your awareness of the issues facing tenants in the social housing sector. Expect to make a difference through direct input into the Audit Commission - the country’s independent inspector of social housing and benefits provision and services nationally.
Depending on the part of the country in which you’re based, Audit Commission will pay between £131 and £141 a day when you’re actively working as part of an inspection team carrying out an inspection. They also pay reasonable expenses to cover travel, accommodation costs too.
Recruitment to for Tenant Inspection Advisers’ ‘Pool’ is currently open. If you’re interested in applying, please click on the following link visit
http://www.ac-opinions.co.uk/tenant-inspection-advisers.asp
Please note applications close on 11th December 2009 and assessments take place over a number of days, w/c 18th January 2010.
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MDHA Residents’ Association produce action plan for 2009/10
Wednesday, October 07 2009
MDHA Residents’ Association Executive Committee meet as a group once a month, as well as being part of smaller sub-groups that allow individual members to drill down into areas of service delivery and improvement that interest them most.
They have now produced their Action Plan for 2009/10, please click on the link to read their action plan in full and see what their top priorities are for the year ahead.Action_plan_-_MDHA_RA_09-10.doc
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13 - 19 summer activities programme
Thursday, October 01 2009
The 13-19 summer activities programme was used to raise awareness of the RESPECT agenda among young people living in our neighbourhoods. Encouraging young people to be considerate to the needs of others around them and care about their community. We also wanted to provide activities for young people over the summer holidays.
Young people took part in a poster design competition to design a poster that could be used for advertising the RESPECT agenda to other residents. Discussions took place around young people’s ideas of what is a nice neighbourhood to live in and what respect means to young people. This generated discussions among friends and helped the young people recognise what impact vandalism, graffiti etc. has to the rest of the community they live in. They also designed their own RESPECT t-shirts.
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