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How To Get Involved

Colchester Borough Homes is currently recruiting for tenants and leaseholders to be involved in its work. There are a huge number of different options. It’s not just about coming to a meeting – although there are plenty of meetings to choose from – you can be part of an email survey panel, become a mystery shopper, or be a member of the reading panel – there are at least 17 different ways to be involved in out work and if you don’t see what you are looking for – let us know and we will see if we can create an opportunity for you. This is “Involvement – Your Way”

There are real benefits of being involved in our work including:

Making a valued contribution to existing and new service development – we listen to your views and ideas
Learning new skills – there is great training on offer – pitched at your level and totally free
Increasing your job and career chances – enhance your CV by getting involved – experiences where you can demonstrate you have learnt skills and abilities that employers are looking for – we’ll even give you a reference
Feeling good – being involved can lead to you meeting people, making friends and being part of a team of involved resident that individually and collectively make a massive difference to our work
Making your community a better place to live – by giving the tenant perspective you are making a positive contribution to the services we deliver

We pay expenses such as child care, travel and provide refreshments if you are working with us at a meeting or at an event.

If you would like to get involved in influencing how Colchester Borough Homes is run, and monitoring the services we provide then please let us know. Your opinion really counts. There are a lot of ways to be involved – click on the group headings below to find out more.


The Board	Tenant and Leaseholder Consultative Committee	Mystery Shopping	Customer Services Improvement Group


Community Budget Group	Property Services Consumer Panel	Media Panel	Leaseholder Group

Safer Neighbourhood Group	Community Services for Older People	Equality Focus Group	Facebook Friends

Quality Assurance Advisors	Village Voices	Twitter	Leaflets