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GreenSquare is looking to recruit residents to its three Communities Boards - Avon, Isis, and Marden. This is a great opportunity for enthusiastic residents to join some of its existing Board members to help get these new Boards up and running.

You will be working with the local community to identify what changes you need for your area and working together to ensure these are delivered; making decisions about how community investment and estate improvement funding is spent in your area as well as monitoring overall spending and flagging any concerns to the GreenSquare Board; you will take part in an annual process for setting the overall budget for your area as well identifying community priorities and contributing to the development plan for your area. Would this be of interest to you?

Being a Communities Board member takes up around 12 hours a month and you can be paid £2000 a year, we also cover travel, child care, and other out-of-pocket expenses.

You should be willing to learn, and get involved, and be aware of the needs of other residents and communities. While you need good communication skills and be able to work in a team, more importantly we will provide you with full support and training to help you carry out your role as part of our Residents Academy.

Are you our next Communities Board member? Then please contact Alice Pearce 01793 602804 or email alice.pearce@greensquaregroup.com.

If perhaps you don’t feel ready for board membership just yet, we still want to hear from you and help you get involved in whatever way suits you best – our new Residents Academy will be providing training in a wide variety of subjects to help develop you, so that you can take part and make a real difference to GreenSquare’s work. Perhaps you want to organise an event in your area or find out what the people in your community want, or even be a ‘neighbourhood champion’. You might be thinking of helping us to improve our existing services by testing the quality of these, or perhaps you’ll want to become part of a special interest group. Whatever level of involvement you have in mind, the Residents Academy will be providing a wide range of courses to support and help you get there (as well as providing you with some good skills for your own CV):

• Skills training: planning and organising, speaking with confidence, how to research information, effective meetings, chairing skills, and lots more
• IT skills from internet, emails, and texting to Microsoft Word, Excel, and Powerpoint
• Getting to know more about GreenSquare – how does a housing association work, all about how we monitor our performance, understanding the finances, and where we want to go and how we get there!

This is just a small selection of what’s on offer!

[published online 27/9/11]