Foundation Housing - Award winners!
04/04/2007
Foundation Housing Association have won the award for Outstanding BME Staff Network/ Tenants Group at the FBHO annual award ceremony held on Friday 30th March.
Foundation were nominated for a new constituted service user group that was set up from the floating support projects. The support projects work with vulnerable adults in the Leicester City area and are referred to FHA by statutory and voluntary agencies with identified support needs. Many of the tenants suffer from social isolation, enduring mental health problems, drug and alcohol misuse and have complex needs.
The group have arranged a number of social activities and with the assistance of FHA were successful in securing Neighbourhood Renewal funding for over £3000. This will enable the group to organise large scale activities and educational programmes such as confidence building. The group are also used as a forum to consult on key issues such as new polices procedures, leaflets and generally how we can improve our service.
Nikk Chawda (Director of FHA) commented “Not very long ago we were in supervision and now winning national recognition. It is a credit to the staff who ensure we go the extra mile and get recognition."
Sheila Belgrave the Audit Commission inspector said "there are no hard to reach groups. The fact we have a fully constituted group that is going from strength to strength and secured over £3,000 funding in its own right shows what can be achieved”.