Here are some words from Jim Holborn, tenant for Accent in Sunderland- attendee at our joint Tenant Panel conference with the NHC in November.
With VFM in our mind at the conference – we encouraged tenants to share what they will do as a result of attending this conference.
If you have something to say on what your proud of, or any ideas at all worth shouting about – send it to Yvonne@tenantadvisor.net. We will try and publish all we get and answers to questions we feel qualified to help you with.
In Jim’s words:
Being a new tenant and also a new scrutineer, I have a little information on ergonomics etc but have made use of a few accent housing initiatives to get to know the people of my area. Through these initiatives, i am getting to know more people and to discuss with them just what an Accent Home has to offer.
At the moment, i am asking what Accent ca offer regarding funding for events and activities, which will further enable me to be involved with the community.
A bit of an icebreaker for me to get up and running and has been for the community t know my role in their locality and eventually what my limitations and boundaries are to helping them help themselves.
To better this, i will benchmark my impact through accent and resident/tenant numbers, always trying to improve my results – my motto is “by the people, for the people”
Thanks Jim – Merry Xmas