Dear Friend
PROMOTING HOUSING CHOICE
FOR OLDER PEOPLE
DO YOU HAVE A CONCERN ON A HOUSING ISSUE AND WOULD LIKE TO
DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT ?
Older people's housing groups and forums can play an
important role in influencing local housing provision.
making sure that older people's views and aspirations are
taken into account.
Speaking up for our age the policy team at help the aged
are joining up with Care and Repair England and Age Concern
England to set up a small grant programme to support older
people's groups who would like to set up local activities
or events on housing issues.
LOCAL OLDER PEOPLE'S GROUPS CAN APPLY FOR SMALL GRANTS
BETWEEN £500 AND £1000 TO HELP THEM TO UNDERTAKE A WIDE
RANGE OF ACTIVITIES THAT AIM TO RESULT IN BETTER HOUSING
FOR OLDER PEOPLE
We will be collecting together information about local
housing activities and key messages from older people's
groups about their experience and priorities for action.
This will form the basis for influencing local housing
policies and highlighting issues that need to be raised
with national government. for an overview of some of the
issues effecting older people you can download a copy of
the help the aged report 'HOUSING CHOICE' at
HTTP://POLICY,HELPTHEAGED.ORG.UK/_POLICY/COMUNITY/HOUSING
If you are interested in taking part please contact Care
and Repair England for an Application Pack (E-mail to:
info@careandrepair-england.org.uk
Or
phone CATRIONA SAXTON on 0115 950 6500. They will send
you full details of the programme and an application
pack . The deadline for receiving applications for
funding is Tuesday 31st July 2007.
We look forward to hearing from you
yours sincerely
JOE OLDMAN (Help The Aged)
You may be late for
the start up date but you may still be able to join groups
in your area
