Ron’s Place on the BBC

Wirral MakeFest’s Relax and Make Christmas Green  2 December 2023, 11 – 4 at the Williamson Art Gallery & Museum, Birkenhead The Ron’s Place team will be encouraging visitors to make collaged Christmas cards and gift tags using recycled materials, very much in the spirit of Ron. A selection of artefacts from Ron’s Place will be on…

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.

We’ve been beavering away on the new website for a while now, getting it as ready as we can in time for the launch next month. You’ll quite probably notice a couple of gaps here and there, even after it’s fully live, but we’re on it! We will be adding more content as time goes…

Listing announcement – 2024 BBC One – Breakfast, 5 April BBC Radio 4 Today Programme, 5 April BBC Radio Merseyside, 5 April The Guardian, 5 April, p.9 Metro UK, 5 April, p.3 Telegraph.co.uk, 5 April BBC Online, 5 April Mail Online, 5 April Mirror.co.uk, 5 April ITV.com, 5 April Sky News, 5 April Standard.co.uk, 5…

August 2022 Over the last 33 months, we have continued to raise money to pay Ron’s rent and council tax with the aim of eventually purchasing the whole building through Wirral Arts and Culture Community Land Trust, the organisation set up for this purpose with saving Ron’s Place as our flagship project. We have been…

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…