The Moray Tenants Core Group (MTCG) is an umbrella organisation bringing together Moray’s council tenant forums. It does not supersede its member forums, but instead aims to strengthen them through sharing and exchanging information, making shared responses to consultation and at times campaigning together. It aims to provide a strong voice for the Moray Council tenants.

MTCG member forums elect representatives to attend our meetings. All member forums are equally important and have equal rights. Member representatives are elected in their forums and accountable to the tenants in their area.

The MTCG responds collectively to council, regional and national consultation and encourages its member forums to also make individual responses.

The MTCG believes tenants should be involved at all levels of decision making relating to our homes and communities, through democratic and accountable tenant structures. We accept that informal methods of consultation should be used for those tenants who wish to be involved in tenant participation but do not wish to be a member of a forum. The MTCG argues that relationships between informal and formal structures should be set out transparently and that informal methods should not be used instead of democratic and accountable methods.

High land and property values in Moray affects both the availability and affordability of housing in the county and it impacts on all issues relating to our homes and communities. The MTCG argues strongly for more low cost publicly owned housing.

Through our involvement in regional decision making structures, the MTCG has argued in support of tenants of other tenures being involved in decision making at the regional level. The MTCG is not funded to represent housing association tenants but is keen to make links with housing association tenant organisations. It has campaigned for the development of a regional tenant organisation and this has now been achieved with the inauguration of the Northern Lights Region covering Moray, Aberdeenshire, Aberdeen City, Angus, Orkney and Shetland.