Conference 2002
CCH - 9th Annual Conference
Creating the framework for community control
22nd - 24th March 2002
The Wigan and Standish Moat House
Wigan & Standish Moat House
[Keynote Speakers] [Introduction] [Programme] [Workshops] [Explanations]
Keynote Speakers
- Ms Sally Keeble, MP.
- Helen Seymour, Co-op Union.
- Terry Edis, Burrowes Co-operative.
- Andrew Heywood, Council of Mortgage Lenders.
Plus :
- A rigorous examination of the Gateway model for local authorities tenants.
- Presentation of the current research into community control in the housing association sector.
- A debate to test whether consumer or community interests in housing are more important.
- As well as workshops on both practical and policy issues relating to housing co-operatives and tenant control.
Introduction: Community Control Comes of Age
The CCH's 9th Annual Conference places community control at the centre of the current housing debates. The conference will explore both in policy and practical terms, two pieces of work initiated and driven by CCH:
- The Gateway Model offers tenants a chance to guarantee community control post transfer.
- Research funded by the Housing Corporation explores models of community control in housing associations.
Within both the housing association and local authority sector, community control is now a practical option. This conference is for people across the housing world to join this debate and to see the possibilities for greater tenant involvement through well-structured models.
This is a conference that is run for and by housing co-op members & tenants; we welcome other housing practitioners who support the principles of tenant control and community self-help.
- Local authority and housing association tenants will see that how models of community control work in practice.
- Local authority policy officers can gain insight into the Gateway model for community control.
- Housing Association staff can find models to win the trust of their tenants.
Programme
Friday 22nd March 2002
| 16.00 onwards | Registration |
| 17.00 - 18.00 | Briefing session for new delegates |
| 18.30 - 19.30 | Dinner |
| 19.30 - 20.15 | Introduction for new delegates |
| 20.15 - late | Quiz (the bar will also be open) |
Saturday 23rd March 2002
| 09.30 - 10.45 | Plenary: The coming of age of Community Control Blase Lambert, Chair CCH: Welcome & Introduction. Ms Sally Keeble, MP, Under Secretary of State for Housing, Regeneration and Planning. Helen Seymour, National Strategy Co-ordinator, Co-op Union. A speaker from the Housing Corporation (tbc). Questions. |
| 10.45 - 11.00 | Break |
| 11.00 - 12.15 | Workshops 1 - 5 |
| 12.15 - 13.15 | Lunch |
| 13.15 - 14.30 | Plenary: Community Control in practice Paul Schofield, DTLR Community Housing Taskforce. Terry Edis, Burrowes Street Housing Co-operative, Walsall. Nic Bliss, Confederation of Co-operative Housing. |
| 14.30 - 18.00 | Visits to Co-operatives in Liverpool and Manchester. |
| 19.00 - 20.00 | Formal dinner with stimulating after dinner speaker. |
| 20.00 - late | Bar and chance to visit the hotel's night club. |
Sunday 24th March 2002
| 10.00 - 10.30 | AGM |
| 10.30 - 10.45 | Nic Bliss - CCH presenting CCH's strategy |
| 10.45 - 11.15 | Break |
| 11.15 - 12.30 | Sub-plenary: Community Control in housing associations Sally Thomas, Consultant, SRC. Plus speakers from community controlled housing associations. Workshops 6 - 8 |
| 12.30 - 13.30 | Lunch |
| 13.30 - 14.45 | Plenary: Debate This house believes that community control is a distraction from the great task of producing the housing consumers want. Chair: Peter Marcus, Joseph Rowntree Foundation. For: Andrew Heywood, Council of Mortgage Lenders. Against: ICA representative (tbc). |
| 15.00 | Conference close |
Please note that this is a provisional agenda and may be altered.
Workshops
- 1. A beginners guide to housing co-operatives.
- Margaret Jones - Rainbow Housing Co-op.
- 2. Access to housing: a partnership between BCHS and the Co-op College.
- A session to sample this new model of training.
- Birmingham Co-operative Housing Services.
- 3. Getting the services a co-operative wants from a housing association.
- Speakers to be confirmed.
- 4. Developing TMOs in Housing Associations.
- Nic Bliss - 20/20 Housing Co-operative.
- Cedarwood Housing Co-op.
- 5. Understanding Budgets.
- Sarah Hughes - Homes for Change.
- Mick O'Sullivan - Finsbury Park Housing Co-op.
- 6. Building a Tenant Management Organisation Network.
- Hugh Maloney - PPCR.
- 7. People before Technology: Wiring up an estate.
- Kate Zamir - IS Communications.
- 8. Risk Management: facing the future.
- Blase Lambert - Brent Community Housing.
An explanation:
Briefing session for new delegates
Friday 17.00 - 18.00
A briefing session for new CCH conference delegates, outlining the work of CCH, explaining the housing co-op movement and unpacking the conference programme.
Introductory session and quiz
Friday 19.30 - late
This is a chance to get to know other delegates as representatives from groups at the conference will be asked to say a few words on where they come from, what their group is and what they hope to gain from the conference. Please make every effort to attend this session, with one of your group prepared to speak! Then straight into a quiz on everything under the sun!
CCH AGM
Sunday 10.00 - 10.30
As a democratic organisation, members of the CCH are entitled to submit motions for the AGM for discussion and to be voted on by the membership. Only organisations directly affiliated to the CCH can submit motions. Motions must be received at the CCH by 1st March 2002, and must be proposed and seconded by different CCH member organisations. (The motion must be signed by the Chair and Secretary of the proposer member organisation, and minutes where the motion was discussed must be supplied with the motion). The proposer to a motion will be asked to speak to the motion for a maximum of three minutes at the AGM and the CCH General Council will respond to the motion. A maximum of two representatives per CCH member organisation may attend just for the AGM at no cost.
