At the General Meeting held on 21st January 2026 the following resolution was passed;

THAT the Articles of the Company be rescinded in their entirety and replaced by the draft Articles of Association attached to the Notice calling the General Meeting and for the purpose of identification are marked “X”.

The draft Articles of Association were circulated to all members on 4th December 2025 and, following their adoption at the General Meeting, will now be lodged at Companies House

Membership renewal forms will shortly be with you. At last years AGM it was agreed to hold the membership fee at the same level as 2025 which we hope you’ll agree represents great value for money!

We would really appreciate prompt payment of the fee as the membership fee, together with a small surplus from the annual conference, represents our only income and without it we would struggle to continue to provide help and support to the tenant management sector. This will be so important in 2026 as the government moves forward with the long awaited review of the right to manage amid increasingly risk averse approaches from social housing landlords.

We come across this recording from the Social Housing Round Table which looks at the role of social housing staff in addressing Domestic Abuse. The session lasts for about an hour but contains some very useful resources which are available to social housing teams (including TMOs) to tackle domestic abuse.

Many will have seen a recent article in the housing and national/local press relating to an ongoing issue between a TMO and the local council in LB Lambeth*. In response the council have seen fit to write to the Secretary of State to request that the forthcoming review of the Right to Manage increases the powers of landlords to address poor TMO performance and, ultimately, to make it easier for TMOs to be closed. The story was originally covered in early December but we are please note that the article on 5th January includes the points we made in response to the December article.

This may be surprising to many members (as it was to us) as the Management Agreement does give a lot of power to landlords already to address poor performance. Powers include removing the delegated task from the TMO, improvement plans, breach notices, supervision agreements (whereby the landlord takes direct control of the TMOs actions) through to ending the management agreement entirely where the breach is so serious or the TMO has failed to comply with other actions required to improve its performance.

We therefore struggle to understand what it is the council landlord would wish to see in addition to these powers? Of course to implement any of these actions the landlord must be undertaking regular monitoring of the TMOs performance and should be addressing issues whilst they are minor rather than waiting for the performance to escalate into major issues. In this case we don’t know what has happened so far but we’re always available to help resolve issues.

What is clear from recent years though is that if this TMO is closed down entirely, a new ‘phoenix’ TMO will not rise from the ashes.

 

 

*The article is behind a paywall on the Inside Housing website