Cleaning the Grot Spot Awards

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Rochdale Boroughwide Housing asks is there a grot spot on your estate? A spot where the litter, rubbish and mess spoils the whole look of the area?

A clean-up event that involves tenants, residents and children who live in the area can help people gain a better understanding of the effect rubbish and mess can have on their community and encourage greater respect for where they live.

Community groups (including Tenants and Residents Associations) carrying out a clean-up on a Rochdale Council estate could win one of five prizes worth £200 to further improve the estate - your community chooses what the prize should be!

If you’d like to tackle a grot spot on your estate, but you need advice - download a guide for community groups on “organising a clean up” produced by the people who run the Keep Britain Clean campaign:

www.encams.org/uploads/publications/cleanup_082006.pdf

You can also contact Rochdale Council’s Liveability Officers on (01706) 693054 or 693037 to discuss how Environmental Management  may be able to help.

Working towards a safer, cleaner and  greener environment

Has your Tenants and Residents Group (you must be a voluntary group made up of tenants and residents living on a Rochdale Council estate.  This includes but is not limited to Tenants and Residents Associations) carried out an activity or run a project to encourage different sections of the community to come together?

Tell Rochdale Boroughwide Housing about it and your group could win one of five awards of £200 to spend on an event or activity that builds on what you have already achieved.

These new awards recognise the commitment of tenants groups to bring different sections of their communities together through events or activities. Encouraging everyone to get involved helps to improve understanding and encourages greater respect for one another.

The awards will be made at the RBH tenants annual conference in October. 

Nomination forms are also available from Sue Kershaw. Telephone: (01706) 273829

Community Volunteer of the Year

Do you know someone whose voluntary work makes a real difference to your community? If you do, show them that you appreciate their hard work and achievements - Nominate them for a Community Volunteer Award and they could receive a certificate and £50.
 
The awards are an opportunity to highlight and celebrate the work carried out by volunteers who give up their own time to help others and benefit their communities.

What is a community volunteer? An adult or young person who lives on a Rochdale Council estate and who spends time, unpaid, doing something that aims to benefit adults and/or children living in their community. Maybe they play an active role in a Tenants and Residents Association, maybe they organise activities or events for children or adults on the estate, maybe they provide some type of support of help to local people.

There are ten awards of £50 in a choice of cheque or shopping vouchers. The awards will be made to one adult and one young person under 18 years old in each of the following areas: Rochdale North, Rochdale South, Middleton, Heywood and Pennines. Everyone who is nominated will receive a certificate.