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November TORC News Bulletin
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Welcome to the November edition of the Tenant Engagement News Bulletin! Brace yourselves for an onslaught of Christmas initiatives – sorry if you are someone who thinks anything Christmas related is a crime until the 1st of December!
TORC Foundation Education Bursary – selection ongoing
We received 21 applications for the TORC Foundation Education Bursary, and we are currently in the process of selecting the awardees. The grants will be announced by 25th November.
Mid-term cinema trips
The recent mid-term cinema trips were very successful with 20 people attending in Clonakilty and 35 in Waterford. We will aim to run this activity for our other schemes throughout next year.
Money saving and budgeting workshop with MABS
If you missed the money saving workshop with MABS in October, you can now watch it on replay using this link.
Don’t forget to follow TORC on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.
Bethany – Tenant Engagement Officer
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Residents Report a 97% Satisfaction Rate for TORC’s services!
The TORC team are proud to reveal the results from the Annual Resident Satisfaction Survey. We score 16% higher than the median satisfaction rating of other Approved Housing Bodies. Check out this post to see more of our results. Of course, we still have work to do to improve our service and going forward we will be focusing on improving satisfaction with our repair service and with the way we deal with anti-social behaviour. The winners of the survey participation voucher raffle were:
€50.00 Liviu C – Waterford
€50.00 Ann C – Roscommon
€100.00 Daniel M – Clane
*TORC does not have access to the names of participants of the survey, so these names were randomly selected by the research company Acuity who undertook the survey on our behalf.
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Halloween Competition Winners
A BIG thank you to everyone who took the time to enter this competition, we appreciate your participation as always. A special mention has to go Dolly in Skibbereen & Jenny in Clonakilty who have won for 2 years in a row now – wow! The Winners of the €25 One4All gift card for the Children’s Costume competition were:
Sean (Macroom), Natalia (Clane), Mikey & Daniel (Galway), Ava & Callum (Roscommon), Abbie, Jack, layla-rose, Arianna-belle & Ayda Grace (shannon), Daisy & Darby (Skibbereen), Jenny (Clonakilty), Dolly (Skibbereen)
Halloween Bingo Winners
Helena K (€30), Denis O’C (€10), Sara Marie E (€10), Miriam O’B (€20), Katelyn F (€20), Hubert S (€20), Anna G (€10).
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1/ Christmas Card Design Competition
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The TORC Christmas Card Design competition is back this year and with even bigger prizes! Young residents aged 12 years and under, have 2 weeks to submit a ‘Christmassy design’ that will be used for the TORC seasonal card. The card will be sent out to all of our residents with our office opening hours for the holiday season.
If your child would like to enter, please take note of the competition guidelines in the poster above. Either post the original copy of the design to the Cork office or send a good quality photo/scan of the design to: getinvolved@torcsustainablehousing.ie
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2/ Christmas Craft Pack Registration
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The deadline to register for all of the Christmas craft packs is Monday 28th November, however the craft packs are limited to 120 packs across the age groups so they will be assigned to residents on a ‘first come first serve’ basis until the quota is reached. So, to avoid disappointment, register using the form below as soon as possible.
REGISTER HERE
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Seasonal Bingo is BACK with a Christmas edition! Deadline to register for a Bingo pack to be posted to your house, is Monday 28th November 2022.
REGISTER HERE
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4/Community Sign Design launch events – Clane & Macroom
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The TORC team were blown away with the designs we received from residents in Macroom and Clane for the ‘Community Sign Design Initiative’. This initiative, which was launched in September, aimed to help tackle issues such as littering, dog fouling and speeding.
20 designs have been selected and each winning designer will receive a €20 One4All Voucher. These designs are in the process of being printed and will be installed around Pairc Ui Mhuirithe and Cluain Ailbhe. A Christmas launch event will be organised for December so that each community can celebrate these brilliant contributions from our young residents. Provisional dates are the 8th of December for Clane and 14th of December for Macroom.
The names and ages of the winning designers are:
Macroom
James (6), Sarah (11), Grace (10), Angel-Skye (12), River (8), India-Lily (10), Lily (7), Ayaan (6), Kayleigh (11), Holly (10)
Clane
Amelia (8), Amelia G (15), Natalia (11), Joey (10), Grace (14), Owen (11), David & Patrick (13 & 7), Bobby (12), Aleksandra (11), Javeria & Manahil (9 & 5)
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5/ TORC Top Tips for Tenants
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This month we are looking at the topic of Home Contents Insurance – this is different to Buildings Insurance. TORC has insured your property to cover its structure, but it is your responsibility to take out Consents Insurance to cover all of your personal belongings inside the home. Although this is not a requirement of your tenancy, TORC would strongly recommend that all households have contents insurance to protect against fire, flooding, theft and accidental damage.
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