Cash For Your Community

The tenant option budget is dedicated to supporting environmental and security improvements or local community initiatives and projects.

If you have a project in mind for your estate or housing scheme, we would like to hear from you.

Examples include:

  • Activities for children
  • Projects that promote health and wellbeing
  • Security lighting
  • Garden benches
  • A community planting day

The budget cannot be used for things such as:

  • Repairs which are the responsibility of Isos or that are already in the planned maintenance schedule
  • Works which would change the amount of service charges unless, after consultation, the majority of residents agree with them
  • Projects which will only benefit an individual

Parkside Court handrail erection (tenant option budget)This photo gives an example of how we've used the Tenant Option Budget to help our residents.

The car park of Parkside Court in Chopwell is on an incline, and residents asked us to fit handrails. A number of them have disabilities, and we recognised that handrails would greatly enhance safety, especially in winter.

The rails were erected early in 2011, to a very positive reception. Mr and Mrs Wright (third and fourth from left in the photo) said, "The Tenant Option Budget allowed us to improve life for residents who use the top path at Parkside Court, especially in bad weather."

 

If you have an idea you want to put forward, you will need to complete an application form, which you can get from your housing officer or community involvement team or download a form using the link below:

pdf icon Tenant Option Budget Application 2012 Opens in a new window

 

GUIDANCE


Please click on the link below for our guidance notes to help you complete the application form.

pdf icon Tenant Option Budget Guidance 2012 Opens in a new window

What happens next?

Our Area Panels will then look at each application in detail and consider important issues, including whether the project will have a lasting effect on residents, if it is practical or if it will have an impact on the wider community.

Every application will be considered.

Before submitting your idea, it would be helpful if you have already discussed the project with your neighbours. You could even ask them to sign the form to say that they support the proposal.
If you have any queries about the tenants' option budget or need help to fill in the form, please contact your housing officer or a member of the community involvement team.