“Ask the FPRA” Webinar page

Thank you for your interest in viewing the FPRA webinars. A Q&A session  “Ask the FPRA” is now available online and FREE to watch for non-members.  It’s approximately 45 mins long and covers many generic questions.

Also, as a sampler, a webinar from November, “Ask the FPRA: A Life in Block Management ” with FPRA Honorary Consultant and Block Management expert Sally Drake. In addition, a chance to view two recent webinars :

• Ask the FPRA: Committee & Board Meetings featuring our FPRA Vice-Chair and RTM expert Shula Rich.
• Ask the FPRA: Leasehold Reforms with FPRA Honorary Consultant Mark Chick, Senior Partner at Bishop & Sewell

As a FPRA member, other webinars are available covering a variety of topics.  The recorded webinars include:

• Ask the FPRA: Right to Manage webinar
• Ask the FPRA: Leasehold Reforms
• Ask the FPRA: Insurance  webinar
• Ask the FPRA: Enfranchisement
• Ask the FPRA: General Legal (two available, June 2021 and April 2022)
• Ask the FPRA : Fire Safety webinar (two available, September 2020 and March 2022)
• Ask the FPRA : Property Management webinar
• Ask the FPRA : Your Parking Questions Answered
• Ask the FPRA : Retirement webinar  including communal  areas/ retirement blocks & villages
• Ask the FPRA & Fixflo: Summer Checklist for your Block
• Ask the FPRA & Franklin Energy: Electric Vehicle charging
• “A Residents’ voice” – organised by FixFlo with FPRA
• Ask the FPRA: A Life in Block Management 
• Ask the FPRA: Committee & Board Meetings
• Ask the FPRA: Consents under Leases (including alterations)

Webinars planned over the next few months….

• Green Energy/Utilities
• Commonhold
• Electric Vehicles
• Block Management

“Ask the FPRA” Block Management

30th June 2022

Our latest webinar on Block Management hosted by our Chairman Bob Smytherman and two of our Block Management specialists – FPRA Director, Colin Cohen and FPRA Honorary Consultant, current president for ARLA PropertyMark Maxine Fothergill was attended by 27.

When: Wednesday 22 June 2022 11:00 AM
Topic: Ask the FPRA – Block Management

Due to a technical error, a recording is not currently available.

“Ask the FPRA” Leasehold Reforms

11th May 2022

The recent webinar, Leasehold Reforms hosted by our Chairman Bob Smytherman and with FPRA Honorary Consultant Mark Chick, Senior Partner at Bishop & Sewell is now available to view online.

When: Wednesday 11 May, 2022 10:00 AM
Topic: Ask the FPRA – Leasehold Reforms

Additional resource

Download the Leasehold Reform slides used in the presentation (PDF)

“Ask the FPRA” Committee & Board Meetings

10th December 2021

Our webinar “Committee and Board Meetings”, hosted by our Chairman Bob Smytherman and FPRA Vice-Chair and RTM expert Shula Rich, is now available online.

When: Thursday 9 December 2021 10:00 AM
Topic: “Ask the FPRA” Committee & Board Meetings

“ASK THE FPRA” – A Life in Block Management”

The “A Life in Block Management”  webinar, hosted by our Chairman Bob Smytherman, and FPRA Honorary Consultant Sally Drake our Block Management expert is now available online.

When: Wednesday 24th November 2021 10:00 AM
Topic: Ask the FPRA – A Life in Block Management

Ask the FPRA (Q&A session for non-members)

Now available to view online….

Some reasons to consider joining the FPRA…

The FPRA is geared to help long leaseholders throughout England and Wales, which we achieve by helping them form Residents’ Associations or to help them secure the management of their blocks, or to buy the freehold of their blocks.

In our 45 plus years of providing independent and impartial advice, our experience shows that the best way to deal with problems within blocks/estates is by getting together with neighbours to resolve problems and to collectively form a Residents’ Association to deal with managing agents and freeholders.

Most problems encountered are best dealt with in conjunction with your neighbours.

We publish a guide to setting up a Residents’ Association which includes draft constitutions and instructions on how to do this. This is available for £18.00 as a download from our website. This can be purchased through this website using any debit and most credit cards or Paypal.

We also publish a guide called ‘Running a Block of Leasehold Flats’ for £17.50 and other useful publications  (including Variation of Leases, £10.00 and Summary of Rights, £5.00)  at various costs to download, please see our  publications page.  If you require a paper copy, please let us know.

The FPRA newsletter is published quarterly and available to all members as a PDF download. A sample copy of one of our recent newsletters can be viewed here. Older issues are also available on the Newsletter page.

Once you have formed your Residents’ Association, or if you have already formed a Residents’ Association or similar (see below), you can become a member of the Federation and obtain access to our expert advice, plus many other benefits too, all of which are only available to our members. Further details on the Joining the FPRA page.

Membership of the Federation is open to Residents’ Associations, Resident Management Companies (RMCs) Flat Management Companies, – where the lessees have purchased their freehold whether they self-manage or use an agent; Right to Manage Companies – where lessees have exercised the right to take over the management of the block, whether they self-manage or use an agent; and other groups of lessees and Commonhold Associations.

Membership of the Federation is subject to an annual fee with a once only joining fee of £90 (£75.00 + VAT). The annual fee depends on the number of flats or leasehold properties on the estate and the cost is per association not per flat.   From 1st September 2021, VAT has been applied, shown below:

This organisation is run by a Committee of volunteers. The best way to contact us is by email and our administration office is open Monday to Friday mornings only (.