Well to day together with other tenants reps from Barrhead I attended the 4th annual tenants conference of the Cunningham Housing Association. (C H A )

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This was one of the better conferences I have been privileged to attend.

After the warm welcome by the chairman of the association Mr R Richards we were given a review of the previous year by the chief executive  Mr F A Sweeney

The first presentation was from Sahara Hammond from the local Citizens Advice . This presentation highlighted the various issues in the area all of which are just what we see hear in East Renfrewshire (E R )

 C H A's asset manage  Mr L Watters gave the report on asset management. This is much the same as most other social housing providers.

 Now the important part of the day lunch.
 
Paul Clark an energy consultant  gave an presentation on energy C H A have asocial enterprise called Citrus Energy. One of the main points of this presentation was to get people on to the best and off the high cost card meters.

The final presentation was from Age Scotland by Heather Baillie this was a first class talk which sent us rushing  to collect a range of booklets. We will pass them along to our fellow reps from Shear.I believe they will find them of interest.

We were then treated to entertainment from a local school (Winton Primary Choir )

Then Naomi Breeze's new play about welfare reform.