Tenant involvement

How you can get involved

Join in with our various groups, events and associations.

We're dedicated to keeping you involved in the way we work and the neighbourhoods that we continue to develop. It's why we have a Resident Involvement Strategy, to make sure there are many ways and levels for you to get involved. Whatever time you can give, we're sure there's some way you can be a part of building our community together. If you'd like to be involved with any of the following, please fill in our simple online form.

We also have free internet kiosks at our Northenden and Baguley offices - so you can easily find out more about what's happening in your community when visiting our offices.

Become a Parkway Voice | Become a tenant board member | Join your local Tenants and Residents Association | Join the Tenant Scrutiny Committee | Join our Youth Panel | Take part in one of our Neighbourhood Performance Panels | Join our Residents' Approval Panel | Join our Leaseholder Task Group | Write for The Parkway newsletter | Attend an Environmental Strategy Group | Take part in an estate walkabout | Be part of one of our focus groups | Become a mystery shopper | Join our Equality and Diversity Champions Groups | Join our 'Value for Money' Group | Complete a survey | Attend our Tenants' Conference | Enter one of our competitions

Become a Parkway Voice

Parkway Voices is our growing database of over 500 residents who want to be consulted with our business. You can choose which area you'd like to be consulted on. For example: allocations and lettings, repairs, tackling anti-social behaviour, rents, tenancy management, or dealing with empty properties. Just contact us with your details and we'll make sure you're a part of your Parkway Green.
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Become a tenant board member

Our board has 15 elected members. Five of these are Tenant Board Members. The board meets every two weeks to discuss strategy, operations and business decisions. These decision-making roles are open to all tenants each year. If you have a good knowledge of your local area and share our passion for improving homes and neighbourhoods, and you can commit to regular reading of board papers, why not apply?
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Join your local Tenants and Residents Association

These are independent groups throughout Wythenshawe, which discuss local housing and wider community issues. They also include our staff. Meetings are usual one a month, in the morning, afternoon or evening. The Chair of each association passes information to and from our organisation.
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Join the Tenant Scrutiny Committee

The Committee meets every two months and reports to our Board. It includes a representative from each of the Residents' and Tenants' Associations, made up of a number of Parkway Voices. As with Board membership, this involves a regular commitment to attending and reading documents. The Committee makes sure we keep to our standards, values and objectives by reviewing any service changes that we make, benchmarking with other local services, and setting targets. You can show your interest in joining at your next Tenants' and Residents' Association meeting.
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Join our Youth Panel

A forum for young people (aged 12 to 18) to discuss issues that are affecting them, their homes and their neighbourhood.
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Take part in one of our Neighbourhood Performance Panels

The way to get involved with local issues and to make sure we're doing well in your neighbourhood. The panels meet every month for an hour or two, usually in the morning or afternoon.
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Join our Residents' Approval Panel

These panels usually focus on one area of our work (for example, repairs). They also contribute articles to the Parkway newsletter and approve its content. They meet every three months, in the evening, usually for a couple of hours. They also require members to read documents before meetings.
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Join our Leaseholder Task Group

If you're a leaseholder, and you want to discuss any issues that affect your leasehold, you can join. Meetings are every three months, in the daytime or evening, and usually last for about an hour.
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Write for The Parkway newsletter

The Parkway newsletter is delivered every three months to keep everyone up-to-date with events, issues and achievements. If you'd like to write for the newsletter - whether it's a local good news article, or an issue you feel passionate about - please let us know.
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Attend an Environmental Strategy Group

We have two groups that meet once a month. The one you join will depend on which area of Wythenshawe you live in. These groups meet at Parkway Green House to help direct our £9million investment in improving your neighbourhood.
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Take part in an estate walkabout

We have two kinds of walkabout - one with our Executive team and one with our Neighbourhood Officers. You're welcome to join either, and take the opportunity to talk about your neighbourhood, and show us where you'd like to see changes.
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Be part of one of our focus groups

These happen throughout the year, in the daytime. These groups focus on particular areas of our service. We send regular invites to these, so look out for them on our website, in our newsletter, or fill in our simple online form (and we'll let you know when the next one is taking place).
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Become a mystery shopper

Mystery shoppers are Parkway Green residents who help us to test our services, and make sure that we're keeping to our Customer Service Standards. To become a mystery shopper, you'll need to attend a training day at Parkway green House. The tests happen throughout the year and usually take up no more than an hour of your time.
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Join our Equality and Diversity Champions Groups

Residents and staff usually meet twice a month, in the daytime. The group looks at all the issues that are affected by our Equality and Diversity policy, and work to improving equality and diversity within our organisation.
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Join our 'Value for Money' Group

Residents and staff meet every month, in the daytime, to review and monitor our business. Together, they make sure we continue to provide value for money with our services.
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Complete a survey

We carry out surveys through out the year - online, by post, and face-to-face. These give you the opportunity to let us know what you think, and how you rate our services, quickly and simply.
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Attend our Tenants' Conference

Held once a year, usually in November, this day-long event is an opportunity to meet staff and other residents, to review our achievements, and to discuss future improvements.
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Enter one of our competitions

We hold competitions throughout the year, such as Wythenshawe's Got Talent and our gardening competition. You can find out about these on our website and in The Parkway newsletter.
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