We are pleased to announce that we have engaged Kate Dickson, director of Creative Heritage Consultants, as Heritage Project Organiser on the restoration of Ron’s Place. A trained architect with 25 years in the sector, Kate will bring her expertise in the conservation and creative re-use of challenging historic buildings to develop a plan for…
Central to the work of Wirral Arts and Culture Community Land Trust is the desire to developaffordable community-led housing for artists based and living in the Wirral. The house in Silverdale Road, where Ron’s Place is, will offer three flats to locally-basedartists who are looking for affordable housing. We will have two one-bedroom flats and…
In great news, we have secured funding from the Heritage Lottery Fund to begin to shareand preserve Ron Gittins’ heritage. Over the next year, we will recruit and train sixvolunteers to digitise a selection of Ron’s vast archive which includes source materials forhis art, sketches, paintings, sculptured objects, photographs and handwritten notes, some insecret code….
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We have some incredibly exciting news to announce: Ron’s Place has become the first Outsider Art environment to be listed in the UK. Over the past few days, we have been taking local and national media for tours of his extraordinary ground floor flat in preparation for today’s announcement. As followers of this website will…
Historic England’s Advisory Committee visits Ron’s Place Martin Wallace, Wirral Arts and Culture Community Land Trust (WACCLT) trustee and advocate for Ron’s Place reports: ”Despite the unusually snowy conditions in Birkenhead, today (16th January) I had the pleasure of showing Ron’s Place to members of the Historic England Advisory Committee (HEAC). This was a continuation of our…
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.
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…
We’re glad to report that the building containing Ron’s ground floor flat is now covered in scaffolding so that essential repairs to the roof and walls can be undertaken. This comes as a huge relief as we head into winter. Things have felt frustratingly slow since the heady excitement (and exhaustion!) of campaigning and subsequent…
Future Yard, 75 Argyle Street, Birkenhead, CH41 6AB. Launch: 13 April, 5.30 – 8pm (RSVP below). Exhibition continues until mid May 2023. Although the doors of Ron’s Place are currently closed to the public while we hatch plans for conservation and refurbishment, we’re thrilled to announce a fabulous #InspiredByRonsPlace exhibition hosted by Future Walls Gallery at Birkenhead’s…
