The Silchester Residents’ Association is a voluntary, organisation formed by residents of the Silchester Estate in the early 1980s.
We represent all tenants and leaseholders within the estate, arrange community events and communicate the concerns of the residents to the council and housing management. The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea (RBKC) own the freehold of the estate which is now managed by the Housing management within the Council, having taken over from the TMO (Tenant Management Organisation) following the Grenfell tragedy, the fire that claimed 72 lives; an avoidable consequence of the TMO’s negligence to say the least.
We have a Gold Standard Award recognising us as an excellent tenant and resident association in the borough.
We hold an Annual General Meeting when the officers and committee members of the association are elected by the residents. We also have regular committee meetings and quarterly meetings with the council’s senior officers to discuss issues and estate maintenance.
We work closely with officers from the council, to try and address issues brought to us by residents. We also have a good relationship with our excellent local ward Councillors but are neutral in terms of party politics.
As of 2016, we have also been a member organisation of the Westway Trust whose gardens, sporting and social facilities surround Silchester estate.
The design of this website was partly funded from a grant from RBKC Housing management. but we don’t receive any funding from the local authority. We do, however, make grant applications to grant giving organisations to run projects and also raise funds through hiring out our community rooms.
This website it is maintained by members of the residents’ association as are our Facebook page and our Twitter account.
In the aftermath of the Grenfell fire, we held a series of art workshops to provide a respite and an unofficial therapeutic outlet for our residents. This project, was funded by a grant from London Trust and ran from December 2017 to November 2019, culminated into a two-day exhibition of the work produced by residence and publication of a glossy book, documenting the work.
