By Rachel Cole and Rob Gooding, The Tenant Involvement team
Rob first met Jordan at Talk n Train; Jordan is an active member of this group. Talk n Train is a boxing group who meet at Millennium Boxing in Rotherham. The aim of the group is to support the local community through their emotional and physical wellbeing. They have a team of highly qualified coaches and volunteers who offer free training, coaching, one to one support and peer support groups where members can share the offload without judgement. The group has been supported by RotherFed for the past three years now. Jordan has thrived and become a key member of the group, helping deliver sessions and supporting members as well as his local community.
Rob spoke to Jordan about RotherFed, its services and the involved they have with RMBC. As Jordan is a council tenant, he expressed an interest in becoming involved in council services.
Jordan first attended the Housing Involvement Panel (HIP) a few months ago now, bringing with him a strong passion for making positive changes for tenants, particularly younger tenants not just in his area but across Rotherham as a whole.
Jordan’s first involvement in the HIP meetings was to showcase the amazing work of Talk n Train in the Rotherham area. With the support from RotherFed staff, the group produced a video interview which was presented at the HIP meeting, in the section dedicated to highlighting one Rotherham’s wealth of community groups. Jordan attended this meeting in person to answer any questions afterwards, marking the beginning of his commitment to the panel. From attending that initial meeting, Jordan knew he wanted to deepen his involvement and contribute significantly to the panel’s efforts in making a difference to council services for everybody in Rotherham.
As well as attending the HIP meetings, Jordan is keen to get involved with our volunteer get-togethers where he can learn and gain experience from other volunteers and in time will then be able to pass on his own skills to new volunteers.
It is great to have Jordan onboard and be involved, especially as he is a younger council tenant and has different ideas/views. We will continue to support Jordan where needed.