YourSpace 2015

On Saturday 13 June, we held our annual resident fun day, Your Space at St Charles College, W10 6EY and welcomed over 250 residents to a fun filled day. It was a great community event, led by Anna de Souza, Resident Involvement Manager.

The event included a range of Did You Know...We do that too information stalls promoting energy efficiency, employment and training, care and support, debt and welfare and accessing your account online. We also had information stalls ran by Octavia representatives from Neighbourhood, Alternative Tenures, Estate Services, Development, Asset Management and Income and we were joined by community partners such as; Your Credit Union and the Citizen Advice Bureau.

A range of free and fun activities were available for all ages including a Silver Comedy session, dance mats, nail art, youth workshop, family portraits, face painting, seated chair and Indian head massage and smoothie making sports activities with Solidarity Sports. We also helped celebrate resident talent and our residents helped run the crèche, the music was provided by Lenny Ranks RJR 98.3FM and Christopher Comnenos provided some delicious cakes courtesy of Kensington Cakes. Residents had the choice of enjoying a Caribbean meal from Mum’s Takeaway or a hot jacket potato from Juicy Jackets with a choice of fillings and were able to sample some homemade cakes at the cake sale which raised £88 for Nepal.

Residents were invited to vote for their top priorities when they arrived and resident feedback is currently being analysed; the feedback will help our strategic groups such as the Tenant Steering Group and Services Scrutiny Panel focus on what resident priorities they should looking at during the next year.

Special thanks to our contractors Mears who donated a Samsung Digital tablet and £100 shopping vouchers, Village Heating who donated a £80 Halfords Voucher and John O’Conner who donated some lovely home garden plants for our prize draw.

Thank you to everyone who attended and we look forward to meeting even more residents at future events.