The TPAS Scotland National Good Practice Awards are back again for 2024, and this year there are five brand new categories. The awards, which run annually, recognise outstanding achievements by organisations, groups and individuals across community groups and the social housing sector in Scotland. T
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Have your say about tenant participation with the Scottish Government and Scottish Housing Regulator
Tenant engagement expert TPAS Scotland is working in partnership with the Scottish Government and the Scottish Housing Regulator over the next few months to gather insights from landlords, tenants and community groups to help inform their thinking around tenant participation. Two projects are curren
As part of its tenant and residents’ improvement strategy, Aberdeen City Council engaged the services of TPAS Scotland in Spring 2023 to consult with tenants and residents living in eight city centre tower blocks across the city. The aim of this consultation was to understand what tenants and
A tenant-led focus group has been hailed as the gold standard for its work shaping a £73 million regeneration project in Glasgow.
Another year of outstanding achievements was recognised at the TPAS Scotland National Good Practice Awards that took place as part of the TPAS Annual conference at the end of June in the Golden Jubilee Hotel, Clydebank. Hosted by Michelle McManus, the awards were a fun-filled evening celebrating the
A North East tenant and social landlord group celebrated success last month at the Tenant Participation Advisory Service (TPAS) National Good Practice Awards ceremony in Clydebank. North East Tenants, Residents and Landlords Together (NETRALT) won Best Practice in Developing Communities award for it
“The best way to encourage tenant participation is to be a terrible landlord”. It sounds like an essay topic for a housing student, but these were the words of David Bookbinder spoken on the Scottish Housing News Podcast. SHN editor Kieran Findlay and I recorded an episode on tenant part
Recorded at this year's TPAS Scotland Annual Conference on June 30th, this episode features a panel discussion hosted by Kieran Findlay and Jimmy Black alongside Anne Marie Brown, CEO at Dalmuir Park Housing Association, and David Bookbinder, the director of the Glasgow and West of Scotland Forum of
Housing staff and tenants from across the country were recognised for their hard work at an awards ceremony held in Clydebank last week. TPAS Scotland held its annual awards as part of its Annual Conference which ran from Wednesday 28th – Friday 30th June at the Golden Jubilee Hotel.
Jimmy Black cycled to Stornoway to meet Calum (Barney) MacKay, chair of TPAS Scotland and long-standing tenant activist. Barney is a trade unionist, and that explains a lot. Trades unions teach their active members how to do many useful things, including basic skills, like how to run a meeting or th
TPAS Scotland, Scotland’s independent tenant and landlord engagement organisation, was instrumental in the recent ballot to determine the transfer proposal of Copperworks Housing Association to Spire View Housing Association.
'New Challenges… New Conversations' is the theme for this year’s TPAS Scotland Annual Conference.
The TPAS Scotland National Good Practice Awards are a key milestone in the social housing calendar designed to recognise the fantastic work and innovation happening across the sector, both by individuals and organisations. Organised by TPAS Scotland and hosted at the TPAS Scotland Annual Conference
After seven years of hard work to bring tenant participation up to a high level, Kingdom Housing Association has been awarded Gold Accreditation from TPAS Scotland. Kingdom has undertaken several key areas of review in consultation with tenants, including its new participation strategy, underta
TPAS Scotland has awarded Kingdom Housing Association Gold accreditation for its ongoing commitment to customer participation. TPAS is one of the leading organisations in the country for promoting and developing customer participation in housing. Its accreditation framework provides a blueprint for