News and Information
January 2012
Welsh Government Housing Association Regulatory Assessment
The Welsh Government has published its formal assessment of V2C. The Housing Association Regulatory Assessment (HARA) forms part of the Regulatory Regime for housing associations in Wales.
Click here to see the reports.
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FlyTipping Action Wales
Please find below the latest FlyTipping Action Wales newsletter, which includes details of the ‘Bridgend Total Focus Week’: a campaign that brought together agencies, including V2C, to tackle fly-tipping in Bridgend.
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December 2011
Lewistown TRA Volunteer Award
Marylin Mills was recently presented with an award for all her hard work and commitment to Lewistown TRA by Ruth Allegretto (Chair Person).
Ruth presented Marylin with a gift and the following verse:
From dishes to trash,
To counting the cash,
To washing the floor and unlocking the door,
From calling the ball's and checking the call's,
Makes it all very clear
You are my volunteer of the year.
Ruth said “This award was given in appreciation to the dedicated members of the committee. It was hard choice because they all work so hard and l would like to see this practiced in other organization.
I as chair person would like to take this opportunity all my dedicated committee more so as over the period of my illnesses.”
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October 2011
Street Vibez
During the May School Holidays, V2C worked with 50 young people from throughout Bridgend to learn and develop skills. There was opportunity to take part in Street Dance, Film Making, Music Making and Dj-ing and Mc-ing with a final show for family and friends on the Friday afternoon.
V2C worked in partnership with Urban Circle, Bridgend College, Youth Works, Communities First, Youth Service and many other organisations to make it a success.
Please right click on the video and select 'Play' to view the video.
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Local Tenant Participation Strategy 2011-2014 Consultation
V2C are required by Welsh Government to submit a new tenant participation strategy and action plan by the end of October 2011.
This outlines the way in which over the next 3 years V2C will develop ways in which you can get involved and share your view with us.
A group of tenants and staff have been developing the draft documents over the last few months and now we need your views and comments to see if you agree with our plans. Please can you send any comments to marie.kiff@v2c.org.uk by the 19th October so we can include them in the final document.
As a guide we are looking for your comments on the following questions:
Do you agree with the themes/objectives of the strategy?
Do you have any comments about other sections of the strategy?
Do you think the actions under each theme will give us the results we hope for?
Do you have any other ideas for actions which you think should be included?
Do you think the information in these two documents will take participation forward at V2C?
What is the best way for V2C to share this information and the results of these actions with tenants?
Any other comments about the documents?
If you have any further questions please contact Marie Kiff on 01656 762487.
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V2C In Bloom
The judges have been around the Borough visiting all the entries for this years in Bloom competition.
Here is a sample of some of the gardens we have seen.
The judging panel were impressed by all the gardens that entered this year.
Winners will be announced at our Gala Awards in September.
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Water Efficiency Project
Valleys to Coast together with Welsh Water, Energy Saving Trust, Environment Agency Wales, Aqua Logic and Wales and West are involved in a water saving project. Tenants with water meters are offered water saving advice by Welsh Water.
This involves tenants changing behaviours (such as turning the tap off when brushing teeth, doing washing in a full load etc). They use a laptop with a programme which calculates the possible cash savings.
Tenants with water meters, who have had the MIP are likely to receive a letter explaining the project. They can then phone for an interview (or opt out completely). As Welsh Water work in an area they will knock on every metered, refurbished home.
We are also hoping to incorporate water saving devises (eg dual flush toilets) into our MIP works in the future.
If you have any queries please call 0300 123 2100 and ask for Kath Hopes or Lindsey Barrett.