A housing association's annual report has been written not by its officers but by the tenants themselves.

They volunteered to do the job, decided on the key staff they wanted to interview, asked the questions they believed other tenants wanted answered and wrote the report.

Now their achievement will go nationwide as they describe their actions at a conference of tenants and housing association officers from across the country.

All are tenants of Didcot-based Soha housing and their report is to go out to 6,000 other tenants and to local councils and Citizens' Advice Bureau.

For Soha, Liz Roberts said: "At various tenants meetings we asked for volunteers to do this report and people from Berinsfield, Brightwell-cum-Sotwell, Wallingford, Didcot, Goring, Watlington and Tetsworth took up the challenge.

"They decided for themselves who they were going to interview and the questions they would ask.

"They spoke to chief executive Richard Peacock to find out about future plans and the finance and maintenance people before writing the report.

"In the past this has been very much a corporate operation, but not this year.

"Now they will tell other housing association officers and tenants about their experiences at a conference in Oxford next month."