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# Wirral Arts & Culture CLT

Community Land Trust

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## Posts

- [Rebekah Tolley ](https://wirralartsandculture.org/2025/11/25/rebekah-tolley/) - Read more...
- [Laura Davis](https://wirralartsandculture.org/2024/03/26/laura-davis/) - Read more...
- [How can communities save heritage on their doorstep?](https://wirralartsandculture.org/2025/06/21/how-can-communities-save-heritage-on-their-doorstep/) - WACCLT trustees Jan Williams, Chris Teasdale and Paul Kelly came together in a discussion to mark World Community Land Trust Day. Organised by Lancashire-based arts organisation Super Slow Way, where Paul is heritage programme manager, it explored how communities can save the heritage on their doorstep. Super Slow Way is currently looking at heritage sites within
- [Beyond the Mainstream: Exploring Outsider Art](https://wirralartsandculture.org/2025/03/20/beyond-the-mainstream-exploring-outsider-art/) - 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
- [Join us for a Ron's Place-inspired 'stitching the past' workshop](https://wirralartsandculture.org/2025/03/10/join-us-for-a-rons-place-inspired-stitching-the-past-workshop/) - Wirral-based artist Alison Bailey Smith will be at MAKE Hamilton this week running FREE fun and creative up-cycling workshops inspired by Ron Gittins. Ron used a technique called appliqué to add pieces of fabric to clothing, creating bold designs, or tacking up corners of coats to make military-style uniforms. Bring your old clothes or fabrics
- [Ola Lee](https://wirralartsandculture.org/2024/12/05/ola-lee/) - Read more...
- [Ron’s Place features in world’s only ‘outsider’ art journal](https://wirralartsandculture.org/2024/10/23/rons-place-features-in-worlds-only-outsider-art-journal/) - 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
- [Architect joins WACCLT’s board](https://wirralartsandculture.org/2024/10/21/architect-joins-wacclts-board/) - 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
- [Annual General Meeting date announced](https://wirralartsandculture.org/2024/10/19/annual-general-meeting-date-announced/) - WACCLT will be holding its Annual General Meeting at 6pm on Wednesday, November 13 at Egerton House, Birkenhead. This is an annual gathering to share with members the work completed in 2024, as well as new developments in the coming year. Plus board member Paul Kelly will lead a discussion on Where does Wirral fit in
- [Teresa Erskine](https://wirralartsandculture.org/2024/10/09/teresa-erskine/) - Read more...
- [Heritage restoration expert appointed to guide next stage of Ron’s Place project](https://wirralartsandculture.org/2024/08/22/heritage-restoration-expert-appointed-to-guide-next-stage-of-rons-place-project/) - 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
- [Affordable flats for local artists](https://wirralartsandculture.org/2024/07/19/affordable-flats-for-local-artists/) - 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
- [Funding secured for Ron’s archive](https://wirralartsandculture.org/2024/07/16/funding-secured-for-rons-archive/) - 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.
- [Media Coverage](https://wirralartsandculture.org/2024/07/12/media-coverage/) - 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
- [Ron's Place is the first 'Outsider Art' environment to be listed in the UK](https://wirralartsandculture.org/2024/04/05/rons-place-is-the-first-outsider-art-environment-to-be-listed-in-the-uk/) - 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
- [IDprojects](https://wirralartsandculture.org/2021/12/08/idprojects/) - Read more...
- [Claire Jones](https://wirralartsandculture.org/2021/12/08/claire-jones/) - WACCLT membership secretary Read more...
- [To List or not to List?](https://wirralartsandculture.org/2024/01/20/to-list-or-not-to-list/) - 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
- [The Caravan Gallery](https://wirralartsandculture.org/2021/11/11/the-caravan-gallery/) - Read more...
- [EMERGENCY! The owner of Ron's Place is selling!](https://wirralartsandculture.org/2022/11/17/emergency-the-owner-of-rons-place-is-selling/) - Some of you will have seen on social media that things are a bit challenging at the moment - the owner of the building that contains Ron Gittins' incredible art environment has decided to sell up.
- [Building the new website](https://wirralartsandculture.org/2021/11/09/building-the-new-website/) - 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
- [Launch celebration](https://wirralartsandculture.org/2021/11/17/launch-celebration/) - Come to our special event to celebrate the launch of WACCLT. There will be music, chat, special guests, an opportunity to talk with members of the WACCLT board and a membership offer. Find out more about our plans, how you can get involved and help us create a better Wirral through creative growth. Entrance is
- [Wayne Hemingway becomes patron of WACCLT](https://wirralartsandculture.org/2021/12/08/wayne-hemingway-becomes-patron-of-wacclt/) - 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
- [WE HAVE LIFT OFF!](https://wirralartsandculture.org/2021/12/17/we-have-lift-off/) - Friday 10th Dec saw the official launch of the Wirral Arts and Culture Community Land Trust aka WACCLT at Birkenhead's fantastic Future Yard venue. The aim was to tell people what we are about, why they should support us by becoming members, and also to guide them to our lovely new website where we'll keep you
- [Ron's Place on the BBC](https://wirralartsandculture.org/2021/12/18/rons-place-on-the-bbc/) - "Legacy of colourful artist who transformed Birkenhead flat"
- [News Update](https://wirralartsandculture.org/2022/08/15/news-update/) - 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
- [JARVIS FUNDRAISER IN LIVERPOOL – ALL PROFITS TO RON’S PLACE!](https://wirralartsandculture.org/2022/08/15/jarvis-fundraiser-in-liverpool-all-profits-to-rons-place/) - Jarvis Cocker in Conversation: Good Pop, Bad Pop Fri 30 Sep 2022 PLAYHOUSE £13 - £26 Join legendary musician and broadcaster Jarvis Cocker live in conversation to celebrate the publication of his highly regarded new book Good Pop, Bad Pop. Jarvis will be discussing his unique life, Pulp, 20th century pop culture, the good times and
- [Get ready for IMAGINATE](https://wirralartsandculture.org/2022/09/10/get-ready-for-imaginate/) - Get ready for IMAGINATE, a fantastic festival of art and music for all on Sunday 25 September at Birkenhead's brilliant Future Yard in support of Ron's Place with Bill Ryder Jones, Beija Flo, Silent K and Dancing to Architecture; spoken word from Sam Batley and Roy; exhibitions and workshops from The Caravan Gallery, Casey Orr's Saturday Town portrait studio, Bluecoat's Blue room, Convenience Gallery and Neston High School Maker Space. Our film
- [RON'S PLACE HAS BEEN SAVED!!!!](https://wirralartsandculture.org/2023/03/03/rons-place-has-been-saved/) - Just in case you haven't heard the news:RON'S PLACE HAS BEEN SAVED!!!! We're still a bit dazed after the thrilling events of yesterday which many of you will have read about in The Guardian or seen and heard in the news. Having handed the keys back to the landlord on Tuesday - with the horrifying
- [INSPIRED BY RON'S PLACE exhibition](https://wirralartsandculture.org/2023/04/07/inspired-by-rons-place-exhibition/) - 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
- [Paul Kelly](https://wirralartsandculture.org/2023/10/03/paul-kelly/) - Read more...
- ['All about community' award nomination](https://wirralartsandculture.org/2023/11/27/all-about-community-award-nomination/) - 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.
- [Alison Bailey Smith](https://wirralartsandculture.org/2023/10/03/alison-bailey-smith/) - Read more...
- [Helen Collinson](https://wirralartsandculture.org/2023/10/03/helen-collinson/) - Read more...
- [PROGRESS REPORT FROM RON'S PLACE](https://wirralartsandculture.org/2023/11/20/progress-report-from-rons-place/) - 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
- [Ron's Place gets festive!](https://wirralartsandculture.org/2023/11/27/rons-place-gets-festive/) - 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

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- [Home](https://wirralartsandculture.org/) - wirral arts& culturecommunityland trust WACCLT is the first Arts Based Community Land Trust in the country. It’s an exciting new organisation that will promote and celebrate the creativity within us all. Our Vision Learn more What we do Learn more Support Us Learn more Our Projects Learn more Get involved Learn more NEWS The latest
- [News and events](https://wirralartsandculture.org/news-and-events/) - News and events First Name Last Name Email address: Leave this field empty if you're human: We only send out information occasionally and won't share your details with anyone else. Sign up to our newsletter News How can communities save heritage on their doorstep? June 21, 2025June 18, 2025 WACCLT trustees Jan Williams, Chris Teasdale
- [Support Us](https://wirralartsandculture.org/support-us/) - How to support us Get involved Become a member Make a donation Invest in our projects Get involved One of the best ways you can get involved right now is to become a member. If you have particular skills or areas of interest such as social media, arts, admin, accountancy, fundraising etc. that could help
- [Become a member](https://wirralartsandculture.org/become-a-member/) - #WACCLT Why become a member? WACCLT is a member-run community benefit society (a type of charitable co-operative) which will keep us rooted in our community. All who support our aims are welcome to join as members, including organisations and groups. WACCLT operates on a one member one vote system, so every member has the right
- [Membership form](https://wirralartsandculture.org/membership-form/) - Membership of Wirral Arts & Culture CLT CLT stands for Community Land Trust. Want to know more? What is a Community land trusT? Membership application Please type carefully - fields marked * are compulsory. First Name * Last Name * OrganisationPlease complete if you are applying on behalf of a group or organisation Email Address
- [Our Team](https://wirralartsandculture.org/our-team/) - Our Team A successful project is built on strong foundations. Meet the team IDprojects Read more... Laura Davis Read more... Ola Lee Read more... Alison Bailey Smith Read more... Claire Jones WACCLT membership secretary Read more...
- [Our Board](https://wirralartsandculture.org/our-board/) - Our board Meet the Board Updates soon! The Caravan Gallery Read more... Helen Collinson Read more... Rebekah Tolley Read more... Paul Kelly Read more... Teresa Erskine Read more...
- [Contact](https://wirralartsandculture.org/contact-2/) - #WACCLT Contact us Email Send Please enable JavaScript in your browser to submit the form A peek at some of our work #WACCLT
- [What is a CLT?](https://wirralartsandculture.org/what-is-a-clt/) - #wacclt What is a Community Land Trust (CLT)? Community Land Trusts – or CLTs – are democratic, non-profit organisations that own and develop land for the benefit of the community. They typically provide affordable homes, community gardens, civic buildings, pubs, shops, shared workspace, energy schemes and conservation landscapes. Key principles are; Run by ordinary people.
- [Funders and partners](https://wirralartsandculture.org/funders-and-partners/) - Project partners Our project partners have helped us to make this possible. Going forward we will add more partners both for the artistic programme and funding. Breaking Ground Here at Breaking Ground, we believe that local people are best-placed to build homes which work for them and their communities. Their involvement helps to create thriving,
- [What we do](https://wirralartsandculture.org/what-we-do/) - Wirral Arts & Culture Community Land Trust - WACCLT - is a unique member led organisation with two clear aims. These are: • to deliver ambitious and transformational arts programmes for the local communities of Wirral, with an emphasis on harnessing creative growth as a powerful source of individual and collective wellbeing • to acquire
- [Ron's Place](https://wirralartsandculture.org/rons-place/) - #withoutprejudice Harnessing the power of Ron's Place. Ron Gittins was a complex and colourful character, known to many in his neighbourhood of Birkenhead. After Ron died in late 2019, aged 79, his family went to clear his rented flat. When they stepped across the threshold, they were astonished to discover Ron had transformed his home
- [Vision and values](https://wirralartsandculture.org/vision-and-values/) - Wirral Arts and Culture Community Land Trust (WACCLT) is a charitable community benefit society set up to deliver: • ambitious, creative, and transformational arts programming which enhances the health and wellbeing of the people of the Wirral • facilities, resources and work opportunities for Wirral artists and creatives to flourish on the Wirral • affordable,
- [Privacy Policy](https://wirralartsandculture.org/privacy-policy/) - Wirral Arts & Culture Community Land Trust wirralartsandculture.org IntroductionThis policy describes the personal information we collect, how it is used and shared, member choices regarding this information and applies to our members or others with whom we communicate. Any reference in this policy to information or personal information is to “personal data” as defined under

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