SGTO ‘TRA Governance & Roles’ workshop on the 29th October

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At 6:30PM on Thursday 29th October, the SGTO are hosting an online ‘TRA Governance and Roles’ training workshop.

This session is for all Southwark residents, TRA members or otherwise. Come to this workshop to learn how your local Tenants & Residents Association work, if you want to become a Chair, if you want to manage the money as a Treasurer, if you want to organise meetings as a Secretary, if you want to represent your block as a Committee Member, or if you just want to know how good governance can force the council to listen to your community.

Please share this with anyone who may be interested in attending. The poster is attached and the Zoom link is below.

SGTO is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.

Topic:  TRA Governance and Roles – Establishing effective governance structures

Time: Oct 29, 2026 06:30 PM London

Join Zoom Meeting

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/83329967520?pwd=am9yjcQ5bVYykzYXeqtbb6Alvw0Lak.1

Meeting ID: 833 2996 7520

Passcode: 783004

Your feedback is important to us. Please click here.

Godfrey Tetteh  

Tenant & Resident Outreach Officer

Southwark Group of Tenants Organisations

Bells Gardens Community Centre

19 Buller Close, Peckham, SE15 6UJ

Tel. 0207 639 6718 Email godfrey@sgto.co.uk

FREE TRA Services & Campaigning

  • Free TRA Related Printing
  • Free TRA Account Verification
  • Free Support/Advice/Development (e.g: grant applications, banking issues, anything TRA related etc.)
  • Free Representation (in disputes with the Council)
  • Free Equipment and Games hire to TRAs’
  • DBS Checks, Youth Forum, Partnership working
  • We campaign for the housing rights of Southwark residents, anything you think is a problem in your community, we want to hear about it.

Message from Southwark Council

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📣 Southwark’s budget challenge: stand with us for what matters most

Southwark council is facing a £102 million budget gap. Local councils are at the frontline of everyday life. In Southwark, the council helps protect children, supports older and disabled people to live independently, provides temporary accommodation for families who need it, and maintains our libraries, parks, streets and community spaces.

These services are the backbone of our community. They bring people together and support residents through difficult times. Now, they are under serious threat.

Councillors want to know what the council provides that matters most to you, where you think council money could be used better, and your ideas about how we could raise more income.

Over October – November the council are running engagement events across the borough. There’s no need to book, all you need to do is turn up and tell them what matters most. You can find dates and times for upcoming events for some of the wards below:

  • Rotherhithe
    • Canada Water Leisure Centre, 6th November, 11am – 4pm
  • Camberwell Green
    • Camberwell Green Library, 22nd October, 10am-2pm
  • Nunhead and Queens Road
    • Nunhead Library, 27th October, 2pm – 5:30pm
  • Chaucer
    • John Havard Library, 2nd November, 11am-5pm
  • Faraday
    • Una Marson Libarary, 3rd November, 11am-5pm
  • Goose Green
    • Dulwich Leisure Centre, 5th November, 11am – 4pm
  • Peckham
    • Peckham Pulse Leisure Centre, 13th November, 2pm – 5:30pm
    • Peckham Library, 13th November, 10am – 2pm
  • St George’s
    • The Castle Leisure Centre, 14th November, 10am-1pm

You can find other ways to have your say here: https://www.southwark.gov.uk/about-council/how-council-works/budgets-and-spending/southwarks-budget-challenge-what-matters-most#lgd-guides__title

Love Southwark Summer 2026

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Love Southwark Summer 2026 is a borough-wide campaign to make sure every resident knows about the free and low-cost activities on their doorstep this summer — from festivals and parks to sport, libraries and youth programmes across all 10 Southwark neighbourhoods. It is designed to drive participation, celebrate local communities, and put the Love Southwark brand front and centre everywhere in the borough, not just in the most visible areas. The campaign runs from July to the end of August, delivered through Southwark Life (every door in the borough), social media, outdoor advertising, a media partnership with Southwark News, local influencer content, and on-the-ground engagement at key events.

Everything is listed at southwark.gov.uk/summer

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Response from Pascale Mitchell of Chaucer Greens regarding ASB on Tabard Gardens

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Dear Peter and residents  of Tabard Gardens North T&RA,

Thank you for contacting us.

My name is Pascale Mitchell I am very sorry to hear about the Anti Social Behaviour (ASB) you have been  experiencing.

As a person who has lived here for the past 30 years, in council/ social housingI have experienced ASB in many different ways. I agree that there needs to be a plan put in place to listen to residents needs. I recently attended a T&RA at which a Residents Service Officer was present. Although steps like this have been taken to connect the council with residents I believe that this is not sufficient.

Residents need full access to the a list of contacts who deal with individual issues. I experienced ASB for many years which included my children being subjected to attacks and a fire in my block. It was being connected to the correct person that enabled the situation to be addressed. This is something that enabled us to be removed from the situation.

I would like to hold community assemblies with residents on issues they are having problems with. To try to find solutions collectively and so residents can discuss and share their experiences.

I would love to attend your meetings if elected. I have worked with T&RA’s in the past and helped residents in Nunhead to set one up as part of a campaign to stop rooftop builds and infills on their estate. This was very successful, we won. This was fighting for resident led development.

I would also like to address the increased ASB in the community. Having two children have their phones taken within 4 months I understand how crime is impacting on community. 

I would also love to help you reopen your community hall in Hankey place. It is so important that you have a space for coming together and for the wider community to come together.

I look forward to working with you all should I get elected on May 7th.

Kind Regards

Pascale Mitchell

Email to Chaucer ward candidates for the 7th May election

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Following on from the last T&RA meeting, the email below was sent to all of the candidates standing for election in Chaucer ward on 7th May, apart from one independent candidate with contact details. The responses will also be posted on this website:

“ASB on Tabard Gardens

Dear Chaucer Ward candidates

At meetings of Tabard Gardens North T&RA meeting, residents have spoken about several issues  adversely affecting them including: difficulty contacting officers; repairs not done properly or in a timely way; issues reported to the Council but not dealt with or even acknowledged; a breakdown in the relation between the Council and residents and also the T&RA. 

Particular concerns have been raised recently about how ASB is dealt with, with officers seeming to lack the skills, knowledge or even will to deal with ASB properly and provide residents with the help and support they deserve. There have even been incidents of abuse in the community hall, witnessed by officers in a building supposedly with zero tolerance policy to abuse, but where the Council flatly refuse to act.

If elected to represent the ward on 7th May, how would you restore resident’s confidence in the Council, ensure residents can live free from the stress and worry of ASB, when in their homes or in the community, and are properly supported if they do face problems?

If elected, we would be happy to discuss these issues and more with you at a T&RA meeting.

Peter Davis

Chair, on behalf of the Tabard Gardens North T&RA committee.”­