2009 Resident Involvement Awards
The National Residents Group (NRG) have re-launched the MHP/NRG Resident Involvement Award for 2009 and are now looking for nominations. The award is open to all MHP residents and recognised groups (which can include residents and service users who are not MHP residents) and can be nominated or self-nominated. The regeneration estates are included.
As well as putting in your own nominations you can pass the information to relevant staff and advertise at all your resident meetings. If you can also get this information on your organisations website or in your local magazine that would be helpful.
Last year the awards funded some significant schemes:
- Clapham Park Homes - Time Bank this project has been operating in Clapham Park for over 4 years. The group provides a service that reduces isolation, and promotes mental well being by having participants mutually exchange skills. The award helped the bank promote itself more widely in CPH;
- MHT London - Golden Age Group and the Nature Garden - The Golden Age Group is a social networking group where people of older age and cultures come together to do activities and learn together. The nature garden is in Brixton and wants to involve more local young people. The award helped to open up both activities to more residents;
- Metropolitan Support Trust - SU Website - A service user, J Luland, identified the need for service users to access the internet and become more involved in the electronic age. The grant helped to set up a specific site;
- Granta - Sensory Garden - The residents at Fen Road have complex clinical needs and severe learning disabilities. They also have sensory and physical impairment and all residents are wheelchair users. The grant helped to develop a garden where service users can come directly into contact with nature by using plants that can be touched and have strong scents;
- Spirita - Walcott Drive - The award was partly used to build a bench seat and arbour, this will have flowering plants growing through it, which all residents on the drive can use. The rest was used to pay for ongoing internet access to the associations computers. A volunteer teacher has taught 16 residents basic computing skills.
The closing date for nominations is 08 January 2010. Please return nominations by letter or email to the address below.
The Resident Involvement Team
Metropolitan Housing Partnership
Cambridge House
109 Mayes Road
Wood Green
London N22 6UR
T. 020 8829 8000
F. 020 8889 0984
Email