On Thursday 14th of October we hosted our third
private tenants information events in the Horseshoe area of the Winter Gardens.
There were about 35 different agencies on hand to offer help and advice to the
private sector tenants of Blackpool agencies represented covered a wide
spectrum and these included such as Citizens Advice, Trading Standards, Hosing,
Care and Repair, Age Concern, Library Services, Fire, Police, solicitors and
many more. One of the most sought after stands was the Credit union and illegal
money lending stand that had several members of the public signing up to join
the Credit Union thus taking business away from loan sharks.
We had hoped to have lots more people through the doors than
the previous event but despite all our publicity the numbers of visitors were
about the same as the two previous events. The difference this time was that
most of the visitors were local people and more people were genuinely seeking
advice rather than just visiting the stands.
We were slightly disappointed that a few of the agencies
that had booked a place did not turn up, especially some of the NHS health
teams which should have been there to give people free health checks, but on
the whole it was a successful day for most of the agencies.
Our thanks go out to the staff of the Winter Gardens for
their co-operation both before and on the day.
We also say thank you to all the agencies who took the time
to put on a stand in order to help what is a difficult to reach sector of the
community in the private tenant.
We would also like to thank all the volunteers of the
Federation who turned out to marshall the event and to stand outside on such a
cold day handing out flyers in the streets.
Pictures
An exit poll was carried out with approximately 30% of the people filling in a short questionaire. The results of the poll were as follows :-
Exit Survey
The results of the exit survey are as follows:-
Question 1. Where did you hear about the event ?
1 Radio 20%
2. Newspaper 16%
Poster / Flyer 11%
Word of mouth 17%
Other 36%
Question 2. Was the event helpful to you?
Yes 99%
No 1%
Question 3. Would you like to see more events like this ?
Yes 98%
No 2%
Question 4. Where there any stands not here today you would like to see at future events ?
( This is what people said )
1. Family legal matters (solicitors already there)
2 Environmental services
3. Mother / baby stand
4.Trading standards ( Already there)
5. Home insurance.
6. Council print services.
7. Line dancing organisers
8. Novelty pens etc;
How would you mark the event out of 10 ?
11 1%
10 47%
9 16%
8 33%
7 3%
Average score out of 10 was 8.9
All the feedback forms were entered for a free prize draw which was a food hamper and the winner was Mrs. Rose McDonald
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