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 Pennine Lancashire which could be owned and managed by the local community.
“The definition of what makes an artist an outsider is riddled with contradiction and controversy but it comes down to a need to produce work for its own sake rather than for recognition”. By Steve Lee…
Sketches: Stories of Art and People, Interior Life. Anna Freeman presents a showcase of stories about the meaning of art in people’s lives. This week, in stories of people using their homes as a canvas,…
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,…
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…
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…
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…