Tenants Advisory Group Meeting
We will be holding our next Tenant Advisory Group meeting on Thursday 24th July at 4.00pm in our office at 45 Hamilton Street CH41 5AA. We will be discussing a number of things including Review of complaints, the Safeguarding Policy and the Hate Crime and Harassment Policy. If you would like to attend then please […]
6th June 2025
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Wilfred Owen Becomes a Wirral Methodist `Tenant`
Plans for a permanent exhibition and artistic resource centre to commemorate celebrated World War One poet, Wilfred Owen took a step closer, as a gallery opened in a shop owned by Wirral Methodist Housing Association in Argyle Street, Birkenhead. The shop owned by the Association as a result of extensive regeneration work it carried out in the immediate area, through `Living Over The Shop` schemes was made available on `charitable` terms to enable the project by local musician Dean Johnson to get off the ground. Musician Dean Johnson has written a musical based on Owen`s work entitled `Bullets and Daffodils` and has established `The Wilfred Owen Story and Gallery` to provide a permanent living tribute to the iconic honouree Birkonian. Dean said, "Birkenhead and the UK at large need a designated site where people can come and discover the true story of this magnificent man and be informed and appreciate his huge contribution to poetry". "Our aim is to help people find their own voice and encourage them to use it in the same cathartic effect as Owen did. We hope to establish ourselves as a world meeting place where people can discuss and be creative in a peaceful environment, a tranquillity and peacefulness that was hard won by Wilfred and all those that fell in the war. We are not a museum but a symbol of freedom". Chief Executive Alun Hughes said, "We are very proud of our local connections and to be associated with Wilfred Owen, a true son of the town. The Association is pleased to help make this local initiative become a reality and play our part in supporting Wilfred Owen's underlying message of the futility of war". Wilfred Owen who was killed in action a week before the war ended wrote of the horror of the trenches and best known amongst his work are "Dulce et Decorum Est" and, "Anthem for Doomed Youth". Alun L Hughes Chief Executive
22nd March 2011
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More Help for the Needy as Association Secures £2m Loan
Plans by Wirral Methodist Housing Association Limited to continue to develop to meet the housing needs of disadvantaged in Wirral, took a big step forward, as the Association combined with other similar organisations, to create a bond issue organised by The Housing Finance Corporation worth over £76m, of which Wirral Methodist took a £2m share. In difficult financial times, this loan was particularly successful at a rate of 5.40%. Chief Executive Alun Hughes said, "We are delighted to be part of this innovative funding package put together at an attractive interest rate by The Housing Finance Corporation. This will secure plans to continue to develop over the next few years and in particular help deliver our latest housing development in Hoylake, where seven young people with disability will soon be able to live independently from the parents, in a supportive group environment".
1st February 2011
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Getting Your Message Across
In our Christmas edition of Topics we included a questionnaire on the proposed `Wirral Wide` standards for Anti-Social Behaviour, Neighbourhood Management and Allocations. Your views on these proposed standards are really important to us. So that the policies can be tailored to your needs and taken into account when reviewing our policies. A copy of the proposed standards and a questionnaire can be found in the main menu of our website. If you return your questionnaire to us before 31st January 2011 you will be entered into our £25 prize draw.
6th January 2011
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