The Community Involvement Team promotes and develops involvement and consultation structures for Six Town Housing. The role of the team is to:

• Promote and develop a range of different ways to help you to get involved in the service
• Give you advice and information on how you can get involved
• Offer a variety of training opportunities for tenants and residents to help them get involved
• Provide a resource centre for tenants and residents to use
• Give support to new and existing groups including tenant and resident associations, Home View, Tenant and Resident Associations Consultative Committee and Leaseholders’ Forum by:
  
  • giving annual funding to formally recognised groups
  • providing free training to groups and individuals to help get involved
  • helping to produce constitutions (rules of how a group operates)
  • helping to produce newsletters
  • helping to produce and analyse surveys
  • providing support to organise and run meetings
  • helping to find suitable meeting places
  • supporting to develop community projects
  • helping to identify sources of funding and submit bids for community projects
    helping to organise community events

We have a Tenants Resource Centre, with a wide range of free facilities available for all tenants and representatives of tenants groups to use.

The team consists of:

Team Leader	Vivien Simon
		Area
Community Involvement Officer	Donna Cartwright	Radcliffe
Community Involvement Officer	Debbie Standring & Kirsty Atherton	Bury West, Ramsbottom & Tottington
Community Involvement Officer	Michelle Smythe	Bury East
Community Involvement Officer	John Byrne & Claire Delaney	Prestwich & Whitefield
Administrative Support Officer	Rita Kavanagh

Tel:0161 686 8000
Fax: 0161 764 5078
E-mail: enquiries@sixtownhousing.org