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- Community grants
- Training workshops for residents
- Recognition criteria for residents groups
Community events and fun days
The Resident Involvement Team work with local residents, Residents Associations, Estate Boards and partner organisations in planning neighbourhood projects including community activities and fun days.
Community grants
Swan Community Grants programme offers grants of up to £500 to community, voluntary or resident groups who would like to set up a small project in a neighbourhood where our residents are likely to benefit.
If your idea falls into one of the following categories, you or your group can apply for a community grant:
- activities or projects that involve children and young people
- projects that help to improve a sense of community spirit, cohesion, pride and respect.
- projects that will help to improve the appearance of the local neighbourhood
- projects that help to make people feel safer and reduce the fear of crime
- projects that help to build the confidence and capacity of local residents to get more involved in their local community
To make it as easy as possible, there are very few conditions attached. We will want to make sure that the money is being used for the purpose intended and that the project leaders do all they can to include the whole community and reach out to those residents who have not been involved
before.
How to apply
If you have never applied for a grant before, contact your Community Development Officer who will help you apply. You can get a copy of the form from your local housing office, or download from the Swan website www.swan.org.uk or ring us on 01277 844242
Training workshops for residents
Swan Housing Association have produced a brand new programme of workshops for our residents.
These exciting sessions take place in a relaxing environment where you are able to get together to learn while having fun. Whatever you ability and experience, you will be made very welcome.
All courses are free and lunch will be provided (where appropriate) for full day courses.
Swan will also help towards travel and childcare costs.
The workshops are open to all Swan residents and currently include the following topics:
- Basic Repairs,
- Food Hygiene (level 2 award),
- First Aid,
- Managing your Finances,
- Development & Regeneration,
- Understanding Swan’s Finance.
For more information and bookings, please contact the Resident Involvement & Community Development team on 01277 844242 or Email:
involvement@swan.org.uk
Recognition criteria for residents groups
Swan Housing Association recognises the need to work in partnership with formal resident groups who democratically represent local residents. In order to ensure such groups are representative and accountable and that Best Value and Good Practice are adhered to, any group wishing to be recognised by Swan, must meet Swan’s recognition criteria.
For residents’ groups to be formally recognised the Association currently requires that an acceptable and workable constitution has been agreed and adopted by the represented community. Such groups qualify for an annual grant.
To apply for recognition by Swan as a representative group
The group must complete a Recognition Form and send to the Resident Involvement and Community Development team. Your Community Development Officer can help with this. The document outlines Swan’s criteria for recognising and supporting Residents’ Groups which include Residents’ Associations and Estate Management Boards.
All applications for formal recognition are decided by the regional Residents Consultative Committee.
The Community Development Officer will contact the group immediately following the Residents Consultative Committee RCC) meeting to
inform the Chair whether or not the group has been recognised by Swan and if so, when the group can expect its Start-Up grant.
Details of how to contact other recognised groups will also be sent to new groups, together with details of the Resident Consultative Committee and how the group can be represented on the RCC.
