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Post by Joe K on Oct 14, 2012 10:04:57 GMT
Estate Champions Event
Location: Charter Court
Date: Monday 15th October 2012 (10:00-11:30)
Estate Champion Events are an opportunity for us (Gloucester City Homes) to engage with our residents, identify issues important to them and put in place multi-agency action plans to create improvements.
We will be visiting the area to identify issues that need attention, complete a survey to find out residents' views on the area. We will agree an action plan and issue a newsletter to residents with the results of the event.
Contact freephone 0800 408 2000, or customer.services@gloscityhomes.co.uk for details.
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Post by Joe K on Oct 15, 2012 7:40:49 GMT
And this is today. Gotta wash my hair...
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Post by Joe K on Oct 15, 2012 12:55:08 GMT
No-one turned up for this, and the relief manager at Charter Court didn't know anything about it either. I guess the most disappointing part of it is that, knowing how little promotion GCH do of these events in the area, I put up four posters myself, and this obviously wasn't enough to interest residents to go along.
I know some people probably wonder why I bother. They have their own selfish reasons for doing so, of course, chiefly that anyone who takes an interest notices how badly things are being organised. When the community is so apathetic, though, I wonder myself.
To be fair, though, 10am to 11:30am, on a weekday, isn't the best time to attract participation. This event might have been a walkabout, or it might have been a door-knocking exercise, which is becoming popular with GCH. Why don't they just pop questionaires through doors and wait for considered responses? They'll probably be lucky if 2% comes back, but that 2% will contain some useful feedback.
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Post by Joe K on Oct 15, 2012 16:15:10 GMT
I went to GCH's offices, though I couldn't linger after realising I'd left my keys at home, and couldn't lock the bike to the rack. They had no record of there ever being an event today, but I copied the details from their own Events Calendar, and noticed while doing so that there were two events listed for today, the one at 10am, and a 'Get Online Week' event which is still there. I think this is what happens when you don't have a regular exchange of information with your Street Reps. Around midday, I received a 'final reminder' from Terry Elcock of a 'Community Celebration' awards event tomorrow which I wasn't sent any previous notification of. It's at... well, see the calendar. It runs too long for me to attend, and is more than likely going to be a backslapping exercise, anyway. |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 17, 2012 15:37:52 GMT
Yes, there are far too many back-slapping exercises.
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Post by Joe K on Nov 1, 2012 2:58:34 GMT
There's another one coming up soon, the GlosAssembly's Gloscars, in early November.
Gloucester City Homes finally explained, by the way, in a Tweet, what happened to the Event: @trollhunterx The walk about took place but was held at Millbrook Cl, Alington Cl & Derby Rd. Sorry for confusion caused on the website.
That is, just round the corner from me, and concerning which I had asked one of their employees, Kate Bird, 40 days earlier, if they might hold an event in Millbrook Close, because the parking signs suggested they had properties there. She didn't answer my query, which kind of adds insult to injury...
However, we now have good reason to believe that any given event on the calendar may not be happening at all, or at least in the place named. However did they manage to get their extra star?
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