Leathermarket JMB have up the Innovation Award at the 2013 National Tenant Management Awards for the JMB’s work in becoming the country’s first self-financing Tenant Management Organisation (TMO).
The award and certificate were presented by Stephen Round, of event sponsors Anthony Collins Solicitors at a ceremony at Stratford on Avon on Saturday (8 June)
JMB Chair John Paul Maytum said: “This award is the crowning glory for more than two year’s hard work by residents and staff of the JMB and the experts that we’ve had to help us.
“Self-financing is a completely new way of working for TMOs and will allow us to give our residents better planned and better delivered services. This has been a completely new way of thinking, which we’ve had to develop by ourselves from scratch.
“We’ve had lots of interest about this from around the country and the Government is looking to take our model further, so we’re delighted that our achievements have been recognised in this way.”
Self-financing gives the JMB complete financial independence, letting it control the entire