Tpas Scotland

“The best way to encourage tenant participation is to be a terrible landlord”. It sounds like an essay topic for a housing student, but these were the words of David Bookbinder spoken on the Scottish Housing News Podcast. SHN editor Kieran Findlay and I recorded an episode on tenant part

Recorded at this year's TPAS Scotland Annual Conference on June 30th, this episode features a panel discussion hosted by Kieran Findlay and Jimmy Black alongside Anne Marie Brown, CEO at Dalmuir Park Housing Association, and David Bookbinder, the director of the Glasgow and West of Scotland Forum of

Housing staff and tenants from across the country were recognised for their hard work at an awards ceremony held in Clydebank last week. TPAS Scotland held its annual awards as part of its Annual Conference which ran from Wednesday 28th – Friday 30th June at the Golden Jubilee Hotel.

Jimmy Black cycled to Stornoway to meet Calum (Barney) MacKay, chair of TPAS Scotland and long-standing tenant activist. Barney is a trade unionist, and that explains a lot. Trades unions teach their active members how to do many useful things, including basic skills, like how to run a meeting or th

TPAS Scotland, Scotland’s independent tenant and landlord engagement organisation, was instrumental in the recent ballot to determine the transfer proposal of Copperworks Housing Association to Spire View Housing Association.

'New Challenges… New Conversations' is the theme for this year’s TPAS Scotland Annual Conference.

The TPAS Scotland National Good Practice Awards are a key milestone in the social housing calendar designed to recognise the fantastic work and innovation happening across the sector, both by individuals and organisations. Organised by TPAS Scotland and hosted at the TPAS Scotland Annual Conference

After seven years of hard work to bring tenant participation up to a high level, Kingdom Housing Association has been awarded Gold Accreditation from TPAS Scotland. Kingdom has undertaken several key areas of review in consultation with tenants, including its new participation strategy, underta

TPAS Scotland has awarded Kingdom Housing Association Gold accreditation for its ongoing commitment to customer participation. TPAS is one of the leading organisations in the country for promoting and developing customer participation in housing. Its accreditation framework provides a blueprint for

TPAS Scotland is asking tenants to contribute to its response to the Scottish Government's emergency rent freeze legislation. The Scottish Parliament has passed new laws to protect tenants hit by the cost of living crisis that will freeze rents until at least March 2023.

Jimmy Black rounds up a lively discussion on the Scottish Housing News Podcast about tenant participation and how it has evolved since the pandemic. Who gets to have housing fun? Not the staff and not the board members at their very serious conferences. It’s the tenants who have the fun.

Social housing tenants have a statutory right to have a say in the running of their homes, but what does that mean in practice? TPAS Scotland has been providing support in this very field for over 40 years and has launched a new campaign to help housing organisations and tenants to build better rela

Plans for a new organisation to give a voice to tenants of Elderpark Housing Association have been given an enthusiastic welcome from local people. In a further commitment to listen to tenants’ views and act upon issues that matter, the Association is providing local people with the opportunit

The resilience and determination of tenants, community groups, landlords and individuals from across the social housing sector in Scotland was demonstrated at the National Good Practice Awards at the TPAS Annual Conference which took place from 10–12 June in Clydebank. The Annual Conferen

The shortlists for the Women in Housing and Housing Heroes Awards have been confirmed, with Lesley Baird from TPAS Scotland in the running at both ceremonies. Ms Baird has been shortlisted for Woman of the Year and Inspirational Leader of the Year at the respective awards.