Tenants Associations | Radius Housing

What is a Tenants’ Association?

A Tenant/Residents Group/Association is a group of people who live within the same area. They work together volunteering their time to represent the views of their neighbours to make their community a better place to live, enable neighbours to get together to discuss common interests, get more involved with Radius and work together on service improvements and performance.

Radius supports setting up Tenants’ Associations by providing training and resources. To find out if there is an active group in your area or for more information on how to set a group up please contact our Tenant Engagement team.

The Benefits of a Tenants’ Association

Meet with neighbours to arrange social or fundraising activities

Discuss issues that need raised with Radius

Such as housing or repair issues

Promote a healthier community

Make your neighbourhood a better place to live

Apply for Community Chest Grant funding

For groups that are just becoming established

: If you and other tenants decide to form a tenants’ association, it’s important to understand how the money will be managed. The group’s constitution, a document that lays out the rules for how the association will operate, will explain who is in charge of the money. Usually, a Treasurer is elected to handle this.
The Treasurer is responsible for keeping a clear record of all the money that comes in (like membership fees or grants) and all the money that goes out. This is for the benefit of everyone in the association.
The constitution will also require that all payments have to be signed off by at least two people, not just the Treasurer. This is a safety measure to protect the group’s money.
All of these records must be kept up-to-date and shared with the members, especially at the yearly meeting, to ensure everything is open and honest.