Getting Involved with Cestria

• Have you got a good idea about how to improve where you live?
• Do you sometimes wonder why we do things and how we do them?
• Would you like to help Cestria develop services to improve the area you live in?

If so then why not get involved?

Cestria Community Housing wants to create sustainable communities: places where people feel safe, that have good local services and community facilities, places that people are proud to want to live in.

We believe that a major factor in realising our aim of sustainable communities is the effective involvement of our tenants and the wider community. Cestria recognises that communities and the different people that live within them have ideas, opinions, knowledge and experience that can help us develop our services to meet the needs of communities.

We have developed a Menu of Involvement and a Pyramid of Engagement to help us with this. Cestria will continue to create a range of new ways to enable residents to work with Cestria to improve people’s quality of life.

We will work with others to ensure resident involvement is based upon effective capacity building, to ensure people who get involved are adequately supported, and develop transferable skills to benefit themselves and their communities.

Cestria will champion equality and diversity as an integral part of our approach to resident’s involvement, to ensure different sections of communities are effectively represented. We will improve awareness of equality and diversity as part of involvement.

Cestria aims to be an open, accountable, and successful organisation in the eyes of residents’ and the communities they live in. 

You can help Cestria achieve this and help develop your community at the same time.

If you would like to be involved, in any way, or you would like more information please contact Mary Ormston (Community Engagement Officer) on 0191 385 1931 or Paul Hadden (Community Engagement Officer) on 0191 385 1932 or e-mail tenantinvolvement@cestria.org