The next You Said It, We Did It residents' festival day will take place on Saturday 4 October 2008 at the Cambridge Professional Development Centre in Trumpington.
last year the festival was filled to capacity with residents working with our staff to improve life in their local area. The theme of the festival was "You Said It, We Did It" - showing residents the ways that their feedback and involvement helps improve council services.
The festival will be another relaxed, day long celebration of the positive impacts that residents' contributions have had on the housing service.
Like last year, there'll be food and refreshments, videos and exhibitions, workshops and consultations where you get to influence decisions. You don't need any kind of previous experience - if you like meeting people, you'd like to help make a difference in your community, or you'd just like a fun day out for free, please come along.
Your Home, Your Say Festival 2007
At the Your Home, Your Say Festival in September 2007, you helped us make decisions on topics such as:
- anti-social behaviour
- where to spend £200,000 for estate environments
- sheltered accommodation
- the diversity of cultures around Cambridge council housing
Tenants and leaseholders organised and participated in their own:
- videos of local residents getting involved in their estates
- live performance about getting your voice heard
- exhibition on the foods, music and cultures of the Cambridge council housing community.
There were stalls by local community cultures from English to South African, and five new residents’ associations were formed as a result of the day.
Many more residents signed up to be part of the Your Home, Your Say residents' network, and to be consulted regularly as a member of the council’s housing sounding board. These groups help to decide which services we should focus on.