Darent Housing Cooperative’s committee joined forces to tackle outstanding work needed to be done towards signing off the Codes of Conduct and The Accreditation. Although several local meetings had been dedicated to this end, there was still a lot of work to do, so a conference room was booked at The Hilton in Maidstone, where everyone on the 14 strong committee gave up a weekend and focused on completing a lot of the work.

Be part of it! 2012 - International Year of Co-operatives is a unique chance to celebrate co-operatives. From Argentina to Zambia, the 1.4 million co-operatives across the globe will be celebrating and showing how they build a better world.

The Co-operative Housing Tenure Bill is being introduced by Jonathan Reynolds MP (Labour/Co-op Hyde and Stalybridge) on 11th October. The Bill calls for legislation for co-operative tenure to be recognised as a distinct estate in English property law and will make it easier for housing co-ops to start and to organise themselves. Please support the Bill by signing the petition.

Welcome to our annual report to tenants for the year to 31 March 2011. This report is for you, the tenants and leaseholders of CDS Co-operatives and our client co-operatives. It summarises our performance over the past financial year to 31 March 2011, but it is not only our assessment. Tenants who serve on our Resident Quality Services Committee have scrutinised our services and reviewed this report in detail.

The National CLT Network, the national body for Community Land Trusts, and CDS Co-operatives, the largest co-operative housing service agency in England, have jointly launched a campaign to give Community Land Trusts (CLTs) the right to prevent community land being lost and transferred to the open market.