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Issue 7 Our Community News Inside: Sign up for the SW9 Festival 03 Going green 06 Community Chest success 12 It’s time to sign up for the Welcome SW9 Festival! Last year, our resident survey revealed How SW9 Community Housing and Network Homes that many of you did not fully understand work together This summer, the SW9 Festival will take place between Monday 20 August and for you. our relationship with our parent company, Friday 31 August. Make sure you read the Festival guide that came with this Part of Management guide Network Homes. So, we have created a new 29/06/2018 17:16 newsletter to find out more about each activity! 6506 - SW9 - guide to property management_final.indd 1 leaflet which explains how we work together We have packed in a whole load of community with Network Homes to provide your housing services. activities and skill-building workshops to make You will find our new Management Guide enclosed with sure you have a fortnight of fun and learning! your copy of this newsletter and on our website. And the best thing? It’s all completely free for any SW9 Community Housing residents. We have also sent you a guide about the SW9 create future leaflets and publications as part of our Festival. This booklet outlines all the free activities Resident Communications Group, then do get in we are putting on for you and your family this touch. summer, to give you the opportunity to improve your Best wishes, skills and have fun with your community. Delroy Rankin We would love to know what you think of our Executive Director publications. If you are interested in helping us You will have to register to take part in the activities. To register for a place, call 020 7326 3700, email [email protected] Get involved or fill in our ‘contact us’ form on our website www.sw9.org.uk and provide us with the The SW9 Festival will include a Community BBQ following details: by the pond on Friday 24 August 1-4pm. Don’t Become an apprentice at miss this day of fun for you and your family. • names of all the residents in your household As well as delicious BBQ food, we will have an who wish to participate ice cream truck, a bouncy castle for the kids, • ages of any children in your household who SW9 Community Housing facepainting, drumming and art. wish to participate This September we will be hiring If you would like to apply for our 2018 Other activities during the fortnight include: • the activities you want to do, in order of a new apprentice to work in the Apprenticeship Scheme, starting this September, • CV workshop preference SW9 Community Housing office. please send your CV and a covering letter to • address [email protected]. The closing date for • healthy cooking workshop at Loughborough If you live in a property managed by us, then you Urban Farm are eligible to apply for our Apprenticeship Scheme. applications is Wednesday 1 August 2018. • contact number cycling proficiency course This scheme is open to residents of any age. If you have any questions about the scheme, • • email address. As our apprentice, you would split your time feel free to email us or call 020 7326 3700. • pottery The closing date for registering your interest is between working in our office and studying on a • seaside coach trip to Brighton Monday 6 August, but it’s best to register as early Business Administration course one day a week as possible before all the spaces fill up! at Lambeth College. Being an apprentice at SW9 has been an • boxing eye-opening experience to the housing We will let you know by Wednesday 8 August Last year, Israel Aguirre-Taipe joined the scheme. • coach trip to London Zoo which activities you have secured a place on. He has gained a lot of valuable experience working sector and is proving to be a useful and • trampolining. in our Community Engagement team. He has interesting year. A big thank you to our contractors and partners, helped with organising resident events, setting who made the SW9 Festival possible through up our Youth Programme, running our social their support and sponsorship. media and also providing valuable support to Israel Aguirre-Taipe, current apprentice other departments in the business, gaining a wide at SW9 Community Housing. breadth of skills and knowledge. 02 www.sw9.org.uk @sw9housing SW9 Community Housing 03 Our youth are taking the lead! Being involved in the recent youth initiative listening to our led by SW9 Community Housing has been thoughts and Growing up in London can be challenging, but full of opportunities, and it is an interesting and fun way to get to know opinions and important that young people take full advantage of these when they arise. other young adults and foster a community tackling the issues At SW9 Community Housing, we know that the This pilot programme consists of fortnightly spirit. that we each faced; young people living in our properties are talented sessions, where we invite our younger residents Having only recently moved into the area, whether it was finding in many different ways, and we want to support to come together, to share ideas and put these a purpose, looking for them however we can. into action. So far, we have shared laughter, I felt somewhat disconnected from those who grew up seeing the changes in their employment or combatting We decided to go back to basics to engage with stories, worries and aspirations. We have also anti-social behaviour. We were been on a trip to Oxygen Trampoline Park, where neighbourhood. I thought that there was a our younger residents. So we went door-knocking each encouraged to speak and carried out surveys to find out about their we had a great time getting to know each other. silent divide between newcomers and those who have lived in the area for years. It is all about ourselves and our backgrounds, and ambitions, issues and interests. After this initial We are working hard to build a strong in doing so, the initial awkward unfamiliarity engagement, we asked our young residents if they relationship with our young residents and we are too common to hardly speak to a neighbour, would like to join our SW9 Youth Programme. making real progress. Over the next few months despite regularly seeing each other. with one another was replaced with a shared we will continue with these fortnightly meet-ups. sense of community. They will include creative workshops, trips and At the bi-weekly Youth Programme gatherings, which include different activities It has only been a short while since this projects. We look forward to seeing what ideas group was created to bring young people our young residents come up with to improve the (and free food!) at each meeting, we’ve lives of their fellow young neighbours. Those on been able to share personal stories about from all walks of life together, but I love how our Youth Programme are currently working with one another, discuss ideas and plans for easy it was to just turn up and feel welcome. us to organise the Community BBQ at our SW9 community projects, and leave with a sense In saying this, it’d be amazing to see more Festival in August, which you can read more of empowerment in our own abilities. of us at these meetings and head out on about on page 3. the trips we get to pick! I was honestly surprised at the genuine interest the facilitators showed towards Judy Tran, Stockwell Park resident 04 www.sw9.org.uk @sw9housing SW9 Community Housing 05 4. Pack your lunch the green way 5. Recycle any plastic you use Celebrating your success with the If your lunchbox is full of disposable plastic You can recycle most of the plastic you use. containers and sandwich bags, it’s time to make a Check below for information about what change! Go green, swap sandwich bags and cling you can and can’t recycle. Star Student Award film for reusable containers or paper bags. You could also choose fresh fruit over pre-cut fruit cups. The Star Student Award is back for a second year. Cut me out and stick me on the fridge! This is our opportunity to recognise the What can you recycle in your green bin? achievements of our younger residents and their exams success. We will be giving away cash 4 7 prizes to those who have excelled in their GCSEs Do recycle Don’t recycle or A Levels. Last year we held our first SW9 Star Student Awards, giving away two cash prizes and recognising the hard work that our younger www.cth.org.uk residents put into their exams. [email protected] (020) 7326 3700 If anyone in your household is taking their GCSE or A Level exams this year, then make sure they enter For more information about these awards, email their results into our Star Student Awards, to be in [email protected] or check out our with a chance of winning a cash prize. website www.sw9.org.uk/community. Plastic ✓ Any washed plastic bottles 7 Plastic shopping bags or containers found in your 7 Plastic stretch wrap kitchen or bathroom 7 My home and neighbourhood Plastic utensils Paper/card ✓ Cereal/snack cardboard 7 Soiled paper products boxes 7 Shredded paper Going green! ✓ Magazines The Resident Scrutiny Panel’s most recent review was around the appearance, ✓ Mail maintenance and condition of communal areas.