Ron’s Place on the BBC

WACCLT is honoured to have been nominated for the Community Land Trust Network‘s ‘All About Community’ award presented on 25 November. We’d like to congratulate the deserving winners Hastings Commons – as a relatively new organisation ourselves we can learn a lot from their hugely inspiring story.

Ron’s Place patron and filmmaker Martin Wallace describes his first encounter with Ron Gittins’ larger than life-size mural of Cleopatra “oozing Liz Taylor energy” in a piece for the latest edition of Raw Vision.The magazine, which celebrates ‘outsider’ artists from around the world, dedicated three colour spreads to the Silverdale Road flat – and Martin’s…

We’re pleased to announce the appointment of Teresa Erskine to the WACCLT board. Teresa is an award-winning chartered architect and head of studio at vPPR Architects’ Liverpool studio. With extensive experience across cultural, community, arts, and heritage projects – including work on listed buildings and historic sites – she has been the driving force behind…

We’re thrilled to share details of Beyond the Mainstream: Exploring Outsider Art, a series of talks to unearth unchartered creativity and the worlds of outsider artists, supported by the National Lottery Heritage Fund. There are three events taking place over the next few weeks and they are all free to attend – but please book a ticket…

We are delighted to announce that Wayne Hemingway is now patron of WACCLT. Wayne is an English designer and co-founder of Hemingway Design and Red or Dead. He is also on the Design Council Trustee Board, and having been with the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment (CABE) for a decade since its inception…

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