{"id":20,"date":"2012-02-21T22:54:00","date_gmt":"2012-02-21T22:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ourlocality.org\/abbeylands\/?p=20"},"modified":"2013-04-14T17:42:52","modified_gmt":"2013-04-14T16:42:52","slug":"how-to-start-a-tenants-and-residents-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/abbeylands\/how-to-start-a-tenants-and-residents-group\/","title":{"rendered":"How to grow a tenants and residents group?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Most tenants and residents groups start with just a handful of people who are keen to do something for their area.<\/p>\n<p>We are finding people by:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Talking to neighbours who share our concerns and may be willing to help;<\/li>\n<li>We&#8217;ll be putting notices through people&#8217;s doors locally to see if others are also interested in setting up\u00a0a group<\/li>\n<li>Setting up this (free) website<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If we find there are enough issues and strength of feeling, a small group will get together &#8211; an organising committee &#8211; to plan the next stages, which will include:-<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>public meetings to test our initial ideas<\/li>\n<li>setup the group formally<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And here&#8217;s a link to the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/ourlocality.org\/abbeylands\/files\/2012\/02\/TIS-Guide.pdf\">Guide to starting a tenants and residents association<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most tenants and residents groups start with just a handful of people who are keen to do something for their area. We are finding people by: Talking to neighbours who share our concerns and may be willing to help; We&#8217;ll be putting notices through people&#8217;s doors locally to see if others are also interested in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/abbeylands\/how-to-start-a-tenants-and-residents-group\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How to grow a tenants and residents group?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":155,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faqs"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":18,"url":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/abbeylands\/what-is-a-tenants-and-residents-group\/","url_meta":{"origin":20,"position":0},"title":"How do we start?","author":"templar","date":"February 21, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Tenants and residents groups are just community groups made up of local people acting together to promote (and defend) the interests of tenants and residents in their area. 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