Upcoming groups
HRA (Housing Revenue Account) budget engagement 2024 to 2025
How we spend our budget is very important. The money you pay in rent is used to maintain current properties and many other services besides, including investing in new homes, tenant support, specialist accommodation and more.
Every year we invite tenants to join us at budget presentations which outline our past, current and future spend to help explain why we spend what we do and where. The presentations give you a chance to ask questions and share your views, which help us manage future budgets.
We have events taking place on:
- 11 December 2024 – 10am until midday at Crescent Court, Toddington
- 17 December 2024 – 6pm – 7pm: online event
- 18 December 2024 – 11am until midday at The Birches, Shefford
- 23 January 2025 – 6pm – 7pm online event
- 25 January 2025 – 10am – 11am online event
- 29 January 2025 – 6pm – 7pm online event
If you would like to join one of the presentations and speak with our finance and housing managers, we would love to see you. Send an email to tenant.involvement@centralbedfordshire.gov.uk, stating the date you wish to attend, and we will send you details on how to join.
You can view the draft HRA budget for 2025-2026 on our website.
We also have a short survey to help gather what you think about how we spend the rental income. It should not take you long and will help us to manage the budgets for next year.
You can complete the survey online.
The New Consumer standards (April 2024)
We have looked at our landlord service and put together a draft Housing Regulatory Development Plan (PDF) to improve the services we provide to you.
Your feedback is important to make sure we’re on the right track.
To make it easier for you to share your thoughts, we’d like you to sign up for any of the one-off focus groups that interest you. They’ll be online and in-person, and we’ll have sessions during the day and in the evening to fit your schedule. You’ll also receive a £10 Love2shop voucher as a thank you, just for taking part!
Each focus group will have a theme of one of the following:
- governance oversight
- quality assurance
- data integrity
- tenant involvement
- professional development
- housing customer experience
- improving the effectiveness of the housing repairs service
- housing policies
To find out more or to join us on one of the groups, contact tenant.involvement@centralbedfordshire.gov.uk to let us know what you are interested in