Tenants & Residents groups are an excellent way for local people to campaign for improvements to their local community as well as providing local people with a collective voice. Your landlord can provide you with help starting a group.

Involvement has many advantages:

• Helping to make your neighbourhood a better place to live
• Giving you greater control over your housing and quality of the housing service
• A chance to air your views
• Meeting other groups and giving you the chance to get to know your neighbours
• Learning about housing and community projects
• Turning your ideas into action
• Improving your skills, which may help you in the job market
• Opportunities to meet people from other areas and other Housing organisations

In our summary we detail:

• Why do groups set up?
• What do groups do?
• Setting up a group
• Getting people's views
• Planning a first meeting
• The first meeting place
• Running the first meeting
• Steering group
• Planning a public meeting
• Running the public meeting
• Running a group
• Constitution
• Membership
• Attracting new Members
• Additional Responsibilities