Resident Involvement

Community Event on Eric Street Involving our residents in how we work and engaging to find their views are central to EastendHomes operates, as demonstrated by its inclusion as one of the key themes of our Corporate Plan and our commitment as one of our five Values to “value and support resident involvement”.

These pages contain information on different levels of resident participation in EastendHomes. Our Board take an overview of all of our activity. There is also a framework of local estate boards which work with a specific focus on their neighbourhoods. The Resident Scrutiny Panel works with outside of the formal governance framework to scrutinise our performance.

Our resident involvement publications contain detailed information on how participation works within EastendHomes. If you have any further questions please contact us.

  • In our work prioritising children, as an RP, we seek to use our estate settings to promote outdoor play
  • Providing what play experts call 'playable environments'
  • Utilising re-designed communal spaces
  • Playable, active spaces provide many and varied health and well-being benefits
  • To have fun and provide opportunities for new friendships to form
  • We provide free events such as panto
  • Free to residents, so no barriers to joining the fun
  • And we use parties as cohesion policy tools, in our purpose-built community centres. We also work with external agencies to bring opportunities to our residents, and have Sure Start operating from one of our buildings
  • And we provide estate fun days, always with a play element, and enable residents themselves to provide play days, through small grants
  • Closing roads if needed to allow play to be prioritised
  • We have funded play workers, youth clubs, and work with community organisations over the long term
  • face painting
  • Playable spaces being used as opportunities for physical exercise
  • Parties
  • Working with community organisations such as MCP has provided tremendous opportunities for young people. Here's one youth group picking up a film-making award.