Colin wins Tenant Champion of the year
Colin has helped support Castlehill Registered Tenants Organisation (CaRTO) to get involved with scheme inspections and to support communities via CaRTO’s funding scheme.
Castlehill’s CaRTO chair, tenant Colin Stewart won the coveted Alan Ferguson Tenant Champion of the Year award at the recent Tenant Participation Advisory Service National Good Practice award ceremony held at the Golden Jubilee Conference Centre in Clydebank.
Colin has helped support Castlehill Registered Tenants Organisation (CaRTO) to get involved with scheme inspections and to support communities via CaRTO’s funding scheme. He is always a friendly face when he meets tenants and is able to help with his knowledge and lived experience of being a social housing tenant.
Colin is an active member of North East Tenants, Residents and Landlords Together (NETRALT) and is a well-kent face throughout not just the North East, but nationally, due to his role as Chair of North of Scotland Regional Network. He is also the only tenant member of the Housing to 2040 Strategic Board.
Colin has spoken in parliament to communicate tenant comments and evidence to the Local Government, Housing & Planning Committee to inform its consideration of the first report to Parliament on the Cost of Living (Tenant Protection) (Scotland) Act.
Tenant Participation Officer, Catherine nominated Colin for this award. She explained, “Colin is a force of nature and a worthy winner of this award because of his unfailing enthusiasm and dedication to the social housing sector and the wider community, from grass roots level to national strategic board level. His voluntary work has resulted in positive changes and improvements to many people’s lives across Scotland.”