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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Bunker Mentality
They say that mixing business and pleasure is not a good idea, well there will be something positive coming from Wirral Methodist sponsoring a team to take part in the Mayor of Wirral Charity Fund Golf Day on May 8th if only in the good causes that will benefit. This is not the first time that the Association has supported charity golf competitions by entering a team made up of its staff, Board members, tenants and contractors, although the emphasis is more on them taking part than them winning. Chief Executive, Alun Hughes said, "As well as helping support the local community's draising efforts for charitable work, including, "Help for Heroes", "Wirral Autistic Society" and the "Forsight Appeal", the event is a good team building event as well as an opportunity for those involved in the work of the Association to gain a better appreciation of the contribution each part of the Association makes to its overall success."
5th April 2011
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Association to the Rescue
Wirral Methodist has joined a small group of housing associations taking part in a Government backed "Mortgage Rescue" scheme to prevent owner occupiers in difficulty with their mortgage payments from becoming homeless through repossession. Under the special arrangement, run in conjunction with Wirral Council and Plus Dane the Association will purchase the property, carry out repairs to bring it up to a `Decent Homes Standard` and the residents will become tenants of the Association. The Association is in the process of delivering its first 5 properties under the scheme with the assistance of capital grants from the Homes & Communities Agency. Alun L Hughes Chief Executive
22nd March 2011
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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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