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London
Tenants Federation
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London's borough wide council tenant organisations are listed below the map. Click on map to go straight to information on your borough.
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Please note
borough-wide tenants and residents federations or organisations
with a formal negotiating relationship on behalf of their boroughs
tenants and residents associations are marked with ** **Barking
and Dagenham Tenants Federation** Tel 020 8595 3601 **Camden
Federation of Tenants and Residents Associations** Tel 020 7383 2227 Web Address www.camdenfed.org Camden Federation of Tenants and Residents Associations is an independent voluntary organisation which works with Council tenants and leaseholders. The Federation is managed by a committee of representatives from Tenants' Associations and individual tenants elected at its Annual General Meeting. The Federation has a centrally based resource centre for Tenants' Associations offering the following free facilities: Services - Federation staff are available to help set up Tenants' Associations, attend meetings and provide training and support. They can also give information and advice on local and national housing issues and policies. The Federation organises open meetings on different housing topics and produces and distributes leaflets and information. Computer Facilities - Tenants are welcome to use the Federation's office facilities for work related to their Tenant's Associations, including typing up minutes, letters etc. and producing newsletters. If you have never touched a computer before, we can give you one to one training. We also have access to the internet. Photocopying - The Federation has photocopying facilities available free to all Tenants' Associations; a black and white photocopier which does single and double sided, collating, stapling, enlarging and reducing, and a colour laser printer as well. Library - Housing publications include, Inside Housing, Housing Today, London Housing News; we keep agendas and minutes of Council meetings concerning housing; details of training and conferences provided by national organisations; where to go and find funding and specialist advice; and a side range of information on local and national housing policies, housing finance, Best Value, heating and health. Space - The resource area and kitchen facilities are available for use by Tenants' Associations for meetings in the evening. There is a training room which holds about 40 people, which can be booked for daytime and evening meetings. Staff are available to help during the day and for Tenants' Associations and other meetings in the evenings. As much of the support work of the Federation takes place in the evenings, staff may not always be available for 'Drop in' visitors, so please ring and make an appointment first.
**Federation
of Enfield Community Associations** Tel 020 8245 3593 The Federation of Enfield Community Associations (FECA) is an organisation run by tenants and leaseholders, for all residents in the London Borough of Enfield, giving advice and information on housing matters. They aim to -
FECA provides information to residents on many aspects of housing and many other community issues, including - how to set up tenants, resident, community associations or action groups; changes in legislation; rent setting process; repairs; caretaking; grounds maintenance; housing benefits; anti-social behaviour; health and safety issues; homelessness; complaints. They also disseminate information from organisations such as Shelter, the Tenants and Residents Organisation of England, the Tenants and Residents Organisation of England, The Tenants Participation Advisory Service, the Chartered Institute of Housing; the London Hazards Centre, Enfield Voluntary Action and the London Regeneration Network. FECA has representatives on various committees and panels in Enfield. They promote consultation through bi-monthly meeting of their membership; bi-monthly meetings with their management committee; presentations; questionnaires; providing access to legal advice, photocopying, fax and computer services; telephone enquiries and providing a residents resource centre. For more information see the FECA website (see above).
**Hammersmith
& Fulham Federation of Tenants and Residents Associations (HAFFTRA)** Tel - 020 8748 4114 Haringey Federation
of Residents Associations website: www.haringeyresidents.org
**Harrow
Federation of Tenants and Residents Associations**
Tel - 020 8420 9685 **Hillingdon
Tenants and Residents Federation** Hillingdon Tenants and Residents Federation is an umbrella organisation that represents all T&RAs within the London Borough of Hillingdon. It's role is to inform members of changes in the Council and assist with any problems that may arise between members and the council. At the formation of what is not LB of Hillingdon, there was only one TA within the area. - The Hayes and Harlington Council Tenants Association - which came to life originally in the late 1940's out of a campaign by tenants of the Botwell Estate on Hayes to get their homes lit by electricity instead of gas. The Federation currently represents19 T&RA. Members attend various panels and organisations and is there to represent all groups and put tenants problems to the council. The Federation is a non-political organisation that aims to revive community spirit within neighbourhoods to promote the harmonious functioning of a multi-racial community and to work towards the elimination of all forms of discrimination. It aims to increase the effectiveness of T&RA through the promotion of combined action on all matters of common interest - relating to housing and environmental issues. It campaigns for representation at the highest level in council departments and fights for resource centres available to all. It also aims to achieve the closest possible liaison and co-operation with other bodies having aims similar to or compatible with those of the Federation. Hillingdon Federation holds monthly meetings and its executive committee meets every 2 weeks. **Hounslow
Federation of Tenants and Residents Associations** Tel - 020 8569 5823 **Federation
of Islington Tenants Associations (FITA)** Tel - 020 7226 8934 The Federation of Islington Tenants Associations is a tenant-lobbying organisation run by members of recognised Tenants Associations on behalf of residents. FITA is one of the largest Federations in Great Britain and the membership is ever-increasing as residents discover the benefits of helping each other through the Federation. FITA (pronounced Fighter) fights for better conditions, better facilities and more rights for residents. Above all, FITA stands for the rights of everyone to a decent, warm, affordable home in good repair. FITA is the recognised body for the setting up of Tenants and Residents Associations in the borough. FITA's workers are available to give on-going support and advice over a range of housing issues and to provide practical support in the form of printing notices, correspondence for meetings, newsletters, posters, agendas, venues for meetings etc. FITA can also assist where appropriate with financial book keeping and can audit accounts to present to AGMs. The office is staffed by 3 full-time workers who are directly responsible to the Management Committee/Directors (who are tenant reps.) through monthly Management Meetings and to the membership through quarterly General Meetings. FITA is also useful for the council, as it reflects the views and problems of council residents throughout the borough. FITA represents the interests of council residents to Central and Local Government and has gained many victories for council tenants on issues such as living conditions, rents, maintenance and repairs, improvement to property, estate facilities and other services. It meets regularly with the Assistant Chief Housing Officers to represent borough-wide concerns. **Kensington
and Chelsea TMO** Web Address - www.tmo.org.uk Following a long history of tenant participation in the Royal Borough, and within a rapidly changing public service climate in the early 1990's, the tenants and leaseholders of the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea decided to pursue their legal right to manage their own homes. Following two separate ballots in 1994 and 1995, a whole borough Tenant Management Organisation was established on 1st April 1996. On that date the TMO took over the management and maintenance of the entire housing stock of the Royal Borough (although an Estate Management Board manages the Lancaster West Estate). The Council still owns the properties and retains responsibility for strategic housing policies, major capital projects and homeless people. The relationship between the TMO and the Council is governed by a Management Agreement, which covers all areas of the landlord business. While the TMO still enjoys a close working relationship with the Council, it is a completely separate company. Kensington and Chelsea has become the first tenant-led Arms Length Management Organisation ("ALMO") i Approximately 230 staff
work for the TMO, based at the Town Hall, Allen Street, Warwick
Road, and various other sites throughout the Royal Borough.
**Kingston Federation of Residents Associations** I Tadlow Tel 020 8974 5806
**Lambeth Tenants Council **
**Merton
T&RA Federation** **Newham
T&RA Federation** Tel 020 8552 5111 **Southwark
Group of Tenants Organisations (SGTO)** Tel 020 7639 6718 SGTO has been in existence in one form or another for over 20 years. It is independent of the council and exists to raise issues that concern tenants across the borough. It is a non-profit making, voluntary organisation, representing and promoting the rights of tenants and residents groups throughout the London Borough of Southwark. It is run by tenants and helps to bring together the tenants and residents of Southwark to improve their quality of housing by offering support, training, advice and resources. It is managed by an Executive Committee elected each year at its Annual General Meeting. SGTO is part of the Tenants and Residents Organisation of England and is affiliated to a number of regional and national organisations that are influential in the development of national housing policy. Sutton Federation of Tenants and Residents Associations Sutton Gate Tel 020 8915 2349
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