Getting Involved in Decisions About Your Home

Hundreds of decisions are made every year that affect your houses and communities. You have the right to information about proposals and to be involved in decisions about how your money from rent and tax is spent on your area

The Council involves tenants and residents through:

• local tenants and residents group
• Reading wide groups
• questionnaires, focus grops, telephone interviews
• through RFTRA (the Reading Federation of Tenants and Residents Associations)

Where possible tenants are given control over decision making for a particular area.

If you want to get involved in decisions about your home why not join the Sounding Board (please follow the link to the right of this page) - you can say what things you want to be involved in and how much you want to be involved.

The Tenant Participation Unit gives advice, support and assistance to ensure that local people can make their voices heard.  You can contact the Tenant Participation unit online by following the link at the top right of this page.  Alternatively you can drop into the RFTRA resource centre at 5, Queen's Walk, (between the Civic Centre and the Renaissance Hotel) (we are open on weekdays from 10am -1pm or 2pm and 4pm) or call us or by calling on 0118 939 0730 or 0118 939 0140

Article		Description
	What is Chance For Change?	How can Reading Borough Council help you get involved in the issues that affect your home?
	Being Consulted as an Individual	How you can be consulted as an individual
	Focus Groups	Imformation about Focus Groups, how they work and how to join
	Getting Involved and Being Consulted in Your Local Area	Discover more about how you can get involved
	Helpful links and points of contact	Additional information for Tenants’ and Residents’ Associations
	Information for Tenants	How the council and RFTRA are getting important information to tenants
	Setting up a Tenants' or Residents' Association	Advice on setting up a local group
	Tenant Improvement Fund	A fund set aside for neighbourhood improvements identified by tenants and residents
	Tenant Sounding Board	Join the Tenant Sounding Board and make sure you have the chance to have your say about matters affecting your home and community
	Tenant Sounding Board On Line Form	Use this form to join the Tenant Sounding Board

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