Deadline: 2-Oct-22
The Department for Levelling Up Housing & Communities (DLUHC) is accepting applications for the Resident Opportunities and Empowerment Grant Programme for the next 3 years to inspire and enable social housing residents to restore a sense of community, local pride and belonging especially in those places where they have been lost and drive delivery of higher quality landlord services.
Aims
The DLUHC wants to see more residents seizing opportunities to engage with their landlord about local services, getting involved in the key local decisions and influencing local housing services. Beyond this, and also want to see residents helping to resolve issues that affect them and their wider community and improve where they live to restore a sense of community, local pride and belonging. Recognising that some residents may not be aware of the opportunities or may not feel they have the knowledge, skills, or confidence to engage, they are looking for innovative ideas from applicants to deliver a programme that empowers and inspires residents.
Objectives
That a diverse spectrum of training and capacity building opportunities, and access to independent information are offered to social housing residents that will:
- Inspire residents to seize opportunities for engaging on a range of housing issues by gaining the skills and confidence to engage effectively with landlords
- Provide opportunities for residents to upskill so that can play a more influential part in the decisions that affect them and their communities directly
- Give residents the tools to take an active role in how their homes are managed
- Lead to residents creating or joining scrutiny and/or other panels
- Empower residents to take over the delivery of landlord services
- Share opportunities so that residents can share ideas and learn from others about how to make a difference in their community
- Drive delivery of higher quality landlord services that are focused on residents’ needs.
Funding Information
The commitment for this funding represents a potential of investment of up to £500K covering the period October 2022 – March 2025.
- 1 October 2022 – 31 March 2023- Up to 100K
- 1 April 2023 – 31 March 2024- Up to 200K
- 1 April 2024 – 31 March 2025- Up to 200K
Outcomes
The DLUHC would expect applications to detail the outcomes to be delivered enabling residents to:
- Become more confident to engage with their landlord
- Understand their opportunities and rights on ways to get involved
- Take an active role in influencing how landlord services are delivered to drive delivery of higher quality services that are focused on their needs
- Increase their knowledge and understanding of social housing and communities
- Hold their landlord to account
- Play a more active role in their community
- Take control of local services
Eligibility Criteria
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The DLUHC welcomes applications from organisations that understand the importance resident empowerment and engagement has in holding landlords to account and promoting a sense of community, local pride and belonging, based in England, with expertise and a proven track record of:
- Providing training, capacity building and access to independent information programmes within the social housing sector
- Working collaboratively with landlords to deliver outcomes beneficial to residents and their communities
- Establishing significant and appropriate sector links and networks, to reach social housing residents including underrepresented demographics and new audiences
- Delivering an offer which supports and adds value to the measures set out in the social housing white paper, The Charter for Social Housing Residents
- Delivering projects that provide value for money
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To be an eligible organisation, applicants must be one or more of the following types of organisations:
- Charity – an organisation registered as a Charity with UK charity regulators
- Charitable Registered Society under Co-operative and Community Benefit Societies Act 2014
- A Community Interest Company registered with Companies House
- A Charitable Incorporated Organisation registered with the Charity Commission
- A Company Limited by Guarantee registered with Companies House
- A Cooperative or Community benefit society
- An Industrial and Provident Society (IPS)
For more information, visit DLUHC.
For more information, visit https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/new-resident-opportunities-and-empowerment-grant-prospectus/new-resident-opportunities-and-empowerment-grant-prospectus