Equality & Fairness Report 2020 Fairness Annual Report 2020 | Page 38

The Accord Way - Co-operative We work collaboratively with and across teams and we are community-focused Accord works in a range of collaborative partnerships to deliver services which promote equality and diversity and /or which tackle prejudice and disadvantage. These partnerships range from work with our customers and communities through to government departments and like-minded external agencies and organisations Co-operating though tenant management Accord has a long history of facilitating and supporting co-production and delivery of servicing and tenant management through housing co-operatives and other tenant management options Throughout our history, we have developed innovative and new solutions to help people apply co-operative principles to resolve housing issues. We are the country’s leading provider of tenant designed and planned housing. We understand how to work with communities to give them real control power and ownership in both the development and management of their own homes. We are committed to delivering the very best and highest quality new affordable co-operative housing. We do this by involving our residents in the design of their new homes and by empowering potential residents to personalise their future home. Since 1979, the Birmingham Co-operative Housing Services (bchs) division of Accord has developed more than 50 housing co-ops and community-controlled housing projects most of which operate in some of the most diverse communities in the Midlands 36