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Spirit Homes' Offices
Henleaze Business Centre
13 Harbury Rd
Henleaze.
Bristol BS9 4PN
Office telephone number
0117
989 8223
enquires@spirithomestmo.co.uk
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Finally, we now have an Office
to work from. It’s only a temporary office but it allows us to hold
training and meetings, Board Meetings and complete business planning
in preparation for our Assessment. It also helps us to co-ordinate
our consultation efforts, it’s a really important achievement for us
and it will help to meet up with you face to face and answer any
queries you may have about this establishing Organisation. It’s only
a temporary office but it allows us to prepare for Assessment and
co-ordinate our consultation efforts, but nevertheless it’s a really
important achievement for us and it will help us to meet up with
you.
So why not contact us? We’re also really pleased because the Council
is showing its support by part-funding the office. We even have the
use of a Board Room!
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Click here for Area of Benefit map
BCC Tenant Participation
Current Board Officers:
Chair: To be advised
Vice Chair: Cheryl Ann
Interim Secretary:
Mrs Jan Lally
Treasurer: Anna George
Contracts Officer &
Co-ordinator: Mike Guest
Board members
Jan Lally (HR), Colin May,
Ann Bennett, and Vicky Guest.
Board vacancies
4 Board members
Documents:
Membership form pdf
Equality & Diversity
Complaints procedure
Memorandum and Articles
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 Shane
Ramsamy - Project Worker
Hello to
all council tenants living in the Spirit Homes Area of Benefit (AOB).
Your street names are mentioned below but this is just a
few words to introduce myself.
I recently graduated with a Housing
degree in May 2011. I believe the 3 years of theory from university
helped me to understand the practices and procedures relating to
Housing. However, I believe a year in the housing industry taken
during my degree, gave me the necessary experience and skills to
communicate with tenants of diverse backgrounds. These years spent
studying and working in housing has given me the commitment and
determination to begin my working career with Spirit Homes Tenant
Management Organisation. I hope to bring enthusiasm to Spirit Homes
and create a positive energy within the community. I will ensure
that full identification will always be carried with the above
photograph displayed. If my initial visit to you is not convenient,
I will happily arrange to call back when it is more convenient for
you.
I have received generally a warm
welcome from numerous intrigued tenants who are showing great
interest in Spirit Homes and the potential benefits a tenant-led
organisation can be to the local community. Many have already become
members but if you would like to join and have your say in the
local area or simply wish to find out more information, please
contact me on 0759 233 5989.
We would like to take this
opportunity to thank all our MEMBERS for coming on board supporting
us. We will be up dating our web site with further information on a
regular basis, so please look out for local items of interest and
things about the Spirit Homes Tenant Management Organisation
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Just to update everyone. The Spirit Homes TMO is in the process of
completing Stage 3 of its development. We are offering council
tenants in the HORFIELD, MANOR FARM and LOCKLEAZE area the right to
choose if they want to sign up and be a member. Becoming a Tenant
Management Organisation is a real choice for us all to improve the
standard of our services to our homes and provide resources for our
community. Bristol City Council will remain the
Landlord, and the TMO a not-for-profit company. All savings
made through competent management of services will be put back into
the AOB community and not shared with anyone else in Bristol.
Budgets for our area will remain in our area, this is what drives
us.
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We
are continuing to undertake intensive, business-focussed
training.
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We
are in the throes of producing our draft BUSINESS PLAN.
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We
are continuing to be very rigorously and independently assessed
by the Approved Assessor Service.
Our
next one is in February 2012.
IT IS
IMPORTANT THAT YOU KNOW THAT OUR NEWSLETTERS ARE PRODUCED FOR
TENANTS BY TENANTS
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The following streets and roads form the Spirit Homes
TMO Area of Benefit (AOB) and if you live in any
mentioned below you can benefit by having a say a vote
and a voice in the way you would like to see housing
services delivered in this area, such as Repairs,
Grounds maintenance and Estate Management which will be
delivered by paid professional housing staff overseen by
a tenant-led board of local tenants for all local
tenants:
YOUR AREA, YOUR VOICE, YOUR SAY.
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Abbotts Way
Bilbie Close
Bishop Manor Rd
Bishopthorpe Rd
Blakeney Rd
Butterfield Close
Butterfield Rd
Buxton Walk
Camborne Rd
Chedworth Rd |
Dickens Close
Dorchester Rd
Dorian Mews
Dorian Rd
Dovercourt Rd
Elmore Rd
Filton Avenue
Francombe Grove
Holton Rd
Hottom Gardens |
Inkerman Close
Kendal Rd
Kendon Drive
Lockleaze Rd
Ludlow Rd
Manor Court Drive
Masefield Way
Maskelyne Avenue
Melton Crescent
Newbury Rd |
Penrith Gardens
Rodbourne Rd
Rosemead
St Lucia Crescent
Taunton Walk
Tilling Rd
Tilling Walk
Turville Drive
Willow Court
Wordsworth Rd |
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Tenant Management Organisation’s (TMO) – just the facts!
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FACT:
A TMO will not be set up without ALL tenants & leaseholders
having the opportunity to vote in favour or against a TMO.
This will be a formal vote called the ‘Ballot’, and it will
be paid for by the Council, carried out by an independent
ballot specialist, and overseen by central Government. If
the majority of voters are in favour, then a TMO will be set
up. If the majority of voters are against, a TMO won’t be
set up.
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FACT: Any tenant or leaseholder
can join your TMO Board. No Board Member is paid for their
time – ever! Catch-up training can be easily arranged.
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FACT:
Under a TMO, there’s neither privatisation nor stock
transfer. There’s no private company going to take over our
homes. A not-for-profit TMO company will be set up that is
owned 100% by tenants & leaseholders only.
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FACT:
TMO’s directly employ professionally qualified
staff/Contractors. A key way that TMO’s become efficient is
to employ staff/Contractors that are accountable to the TMO
Board of tenants/leaseholders only & from a local office.
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FACT: The Council is fully
supporting and carefully scrutinising the TMO process, and
the Council will continue to have a legal monitoring role
when the TMO is operational.
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FACT: Under a TMO, tenants &
leaseholders do not actually do the work, they form a Board
that oversees paid housing professionals to do the work
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FACT:
The money comes from the Council – which must BY LAW give
the TMO an annual Management Allowance proportional to the
number of properties managed by the TMO
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WELCOME TO THE SPIRIT HOMES TMO'S
WEBSITE. 
