A Group Including ALL Residents

The aim is to allow everybody to participate to the new group. A group  dedicated to the estate and its residents' needs. We want leaseholders, council and private tenants to be part of the new  group and participate in any and every possible way they find convenient. This can be via the website, phone, post, twitter, skype, etc

We promote and believe that everyone must have the right to elect and   be elected as well as be able to participate and contribute to the decisions made for this estate.  Unfortunately, this is not the case with the current TRA. Read The Story »

Current CurnockTRA - April 2012

In our opinion the disadvantages of the Curnock TRA as it stands at the moment are:

• Restrictive: CurnockTRA informs residents about the current affairs every few months and only if the residents are present on their meetings (4 in the whole year). This prevents the majority of residents to get informed due to their busy work schedules, disabilities, easy access to the Marr, etc

• Undemocratic: CurnockTRA does not allow all residents to participate to the TRA and they tend to make decisions against residents without announcing their decisions to them. Please have in mind that the meeting notes are confidential ! It is also important to have in mind that the maximum number of people who attend their meetings is 15 which is a fraction of the total number of residents.

• Lack of Transparency: The election results, decisions, funds spending, residents attendance to meetings, etc are not available to anyone and for that reason it is not possible to check if everything is right or done properly.

• Difficult to Contact: At the moment you can contact CurnockTRA only via email. From our own experience CurnockTRA has never replied to any of our emails or requests.

• Incapable: The CurnockTRA does not have enough members to do the basic functions of a normal TRA. There is only one member and three representatives.

• Comparison: See the comparison between the Curnock TRA, our website and the other TRAs.

Our Contribution So Far

	One of our successful contributions

The Curnock Street Estate website is online since 2007 and has allowed residents to access all the information regarding the Curnock Estate. That information has been obtained from different resources. There is a search facility that allows residents to search our five years archive in order to  retrieve the relevant information easily.

In the last year we have run a petition about the Hot Water issues on the estate in which many residents have contributed. 120 signatures allowed us to successfully request a refund from the council and a more frequent updates.

Our website allowed the residents to comment on the published stories, shared them with their neighbours and vote in our online polls.

The twitter functionality allowed the website to offer faster news reporting as well as connect with other TRAs in Camden that facing similar issues with us. We are learning learn from each other and help each other in any way we can.

At the moment we have 40 registered users, 17 followers in our Twitter, 120 signatures from our petition and very good feedback from our users:

A resident from Trimdon wrote: "The site and the petition have raised awareness across the estate and motivated the ... resident’s into speaking out.... " and : "We need a voice and a way to demonstrate to the council exactly how many properties are affected by different incidents and your site has provided us with that. "

Free Training For Residents

	Training for all the residents

We are in the process of putting online training courses for all residents who want to learn new skills (computers, gardening, cooking, etc). 

Learn and test your knowledge at anytime of the day and at your own pace online.  If that is not suitable for you, we will try to provide face to face meetings in which we will provide the same training.

Curnock Street Estate - Free Training»

Future Plans - Roadmap

Tell us what we think and share your own ideas • Paper Newsletters: For residents that cannot access the internet or for those that prefer a paper copy for their records. • Video News: Short videos with the latest news and decisions. If you want to be the presenter for those videos please let us know. • Postal Vote: The aim is to allow residents to vote for the group's decisions and elections via a postal vote. The aim is to engage as many residents are possible. • Social Events/Contribution: The aim is to create groups that will do some activities to make our area better. These activities can be gardening, tiding up some areas, training courses, etc

Exciting Plans for the future