Tenant Engagement Champions
Having your say on our housing services
Following feedback from tenants, Tenant Engagement Champions have been set up to give tenants the opportunity to speak to one another and share their views on their local community with District Council officers.
These champions are here to listen to the views of tenants and raise them with the District Council to action.
Residents can get involved at any time by emailing Getinvolved@newark-sherwooddc.gov.uk.
Your Tenant Engagement Champions
Richard Tracy
Newark Champion
My name is Richard Tracy and I’ve been a council tenant in the district since 2003. I got involved with Newark and Sherwood Homes in 2008, before serving on the Board as tenant director from 2009 until 2014.
Since the housing service was taken back into District Council hands, I have been involved working to improve services across the district with other tenants. Now as a Tenant Engagement Champion, I see my role is to listen to the concerns of tenants and leaseholders and ensure that your views are heard at the highest level within the Council on the decisions that they take on its landlord housing services, and that the Council are held to account on those services.
Helen Douthwaite
Sherwood Champion
Hello, I am Helen Douthwaite and I have been a tenant for 19 years. I live at Farnsfield, and I am keen to support tenants to have their views heard and to make a real difference. I am thrilled to be able to take on this opportunity and will do my best to ensure Sherwood tenants have the issues that matter to them heard.
Mike Frettsome
Building Safety Champion
My name is Mike Frettsome, I became a tenant with Newark and Sherwood Homes in 2008, moving into a bungalow in Thurgarton. My voluntary work as an Involved Tenant began in 2013 when I joined a Scrutiny Panel alongside other Involved Tenants. I progressed onto the Board of Newark and Sherwood Homes, where I served for six years until the decision was made to bring the Company back in-house under Newark and Sherwood District Council. When Newark and Sherwood District Council took over, I continued my involvement as an Involved Tenant. A small group of three tenants was set up to sit on both the Tenant Engagement Board and the Housing Advisory Board. I was invited to join this group with a specific responsibility for looking at health and safety issues on behalf of all tenants which I accepted. I ran my own electrical contracting business for thirty years, which gave me valuable insight into health and safety in the home and the construction industry - experience I now use to help protect and improve conditions for all tenants.
Community Link Groups
Our Community Link Groups complement and provide feedback to our Tenant Engagement Champions.
Taking place at locations across the district the Groups provide a more local focus and provide an opportunity for tenants, leaseholders and residents to raise issues and ideas that are specific to their local community. Issues and ideas discussed at the Community Link Groups will be raised to Tenant Engagement Champions for further discussion and through to the District Council for consideration.
More information is available on our Community Link Group webpage including details of when the next meetings are taking place.
Become an involved tenant
Tenants can get involved in many engagement opportunities, this includes policy reviews, mystery shopping, estate walkabouts and much more.
More information on how to become an involved tenant is available on our or you can get in touch by emailing getinvolved@newark-sherwooddc.gov.uk