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The Right to Manage
Lots of changes have quietly happened in the world of social housing over summer and autumn months.
There are new routes of accessing Tenant Empowerment Programme funding to support social housing tenants exploring tenant empowerment options including setting up Tenant Management Organisations
AfCE has been involved in developing the new guidance that has recently been published
New documents available from Communities and Local Government (CLG) include new Statutory
Instruments for the Right o Manage for Council House tenants and guides “Local Choice
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If you have any difficulty in finding any of these publications on the CLG web site
or in understanding them -
Tenant Participation Workout -
Funded by an Innovation into Action grant from the CLG and administered by the Chartered Institute of Housing under the Section 16 Grant regime.
Accredited with the Open College Network (OCN)
First two stages of The East Riding Tenant Participation Workout Units have now been completed
The final stage is now underway and should be finalised by the end of 2008.
For a course prospectus, click here
Basegreen TMO Video -
Hazel Blears -
It is interesting to read the The Secretary of Stage for CLG published text of a speech to the Association of Chief Executives of Voluntary Organisations (ACEVO).
In the context of the economic downturn the role of voluntary organisations in society is important. In this speech the Minister sets out the Government’s broad agenda for the foreseeable future.
The full text can be accessed via our Links pages -
The key note appears to be sustainability for community enterprises and organisations to sort out their main income streams for the future and become more businesslike (my words TRS).
AfCE is, of course, in existence for the very purpose of fulfilling this ambition
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