Good Neighbour Awards 2023 Winners

Ellen Crummie – Cwrt WM Hughes, Llandudno

Ellen is the most caring, generous and helpful woman you will ever know. She is always helping others and her home is always open for a chat or anything you need. Ellen always puts others before herself, whether it be helping with the gardens of neighbours who can’t do them, too keeping our cul-de-sac clean. She always has a smile for everyone even though she has been through a lot. She gives to so many when needed. But most importantly, she is there if you need a chat.

 

Veronica Griffiths – Y Gorlan, Bangor

We would like to nominate Veronica Griffiths as she has been a good neighbour and friend to several, especially over the last couple of months. Not only this but Veronica still volunteers in one of the local charity shops giving back to the local community at 82 years of age, which you would never guess from her contagious energy and enthusiasm for life. She is also a prominent contributor and motivator for social events at Y Gorlan and is one of the first to help and get her hands wet too with the dishwashing afterwards and one of the last to leave.

 

Geoff & Brenda Uttley – Llys y Coed, Llanfairfechan

I would like to nominate a couple for the Good Neighbour Award: Geoff and Brenda Uttley. Throughout this last year or two, both Geoff and Brenda have been suffering from serious health problems. They have not however let this stop them from carrying on with the Llys y Coed patio plants. They also continue to provide a Friday night film in the Lounge and to be active members of the Llys y Coed residents association. They also provide help to whoever needs it, bringing shopping from Tesco etc, or offering lifts.

 

Karen Humphreys – Hafod y Parc, Abergele

She organises the majority of our events here at Hafod Y Parc, she runs the tuck shop, charity table, and arranges the monthly bingo for the scheme. It doesn’t stop there, she goes out of her way to help anybody who is poorly, helps families to organise clearing flats (even getting her hands dirty and bagging up belongings for them). She helps out with anybody who is stuck for hospital lifts, arranges the Friday coffee afternoon, collects all of the supplies for the schemes events, and organises collections for the local Hummingbird Project.

Corporate Plan Survey – a chance to win a £50 high street voucher!

What does North Wales Housing (NWH) look like 3 years from now? That’s what we want your help with! We’re developing our 3-year Corporate Plan which will pave the way as to where NWH should be and how we will get there.

What is a Corporate Plan? A corporate plan sets out how an organisation or business will meet its priorities and objectives. We want our tenants to be at the heart of our Corporate Plan, and we want to know what is important to you and what you think our priorities should be.

Everyone completing the survey will be entered into a prize draw to win a £50 high street voucher!

Complete survey here!

NWH Gardening Competition Results 2023

The votes are in, the judges have spoken; the NWH Gardening competition winners have been revealed!

Best Garden

Joint 1st – John Jones & Elizabeth Jones  Tan y Coed, Maesgeirchen / Joint 1st – Maureen Evans & John Evans Cae Bach, Tal y Bont
2nd – Agnes Jones  Cwrt William Hughes, Llandudno
3rd Sarah Jackson Heol Dirion, Colwyn Bay

Most Improved

1st Chris Wigfield  Cae Clyd, Llandudno
Joint 2nd Lindsey Davies & Daniel Davies Llannerch y Mor, Penmaenmawr / Joint 2nd – Sharon Williams Clarence Road, Llandudno
3rd Gavin Arnett  Maes Glyndwr, Wrecsam

Best Communal

1st – Pendinas Hostel, Bangor
2nd – Pat Law and Georgina Williams Ty John Emrys, Abergele Road, Colwyn Bay
Joint 3rd – Janet Leighs Tony Taylor The Metropol, Colwyn Bay / Joint 3rd – Geoff Utley, Pat Cooke, Laslo Kerr, Douglas Lawler, Leslie Evans, David Ware, Frances Blackman and Margert Maines of Llys y Coed, Llanfairfechan

Best Container Garden

1st Carl Wedge Cae Clyd, Llandudno
Joint 2nd – Ann Clegg  Hafod y Parc, Abergele / Joint 2nd – Susan Blundell and Steven Blundell 6 Ffordd Eithinog, Bangor
Joint 3rd – Thelma Jones Cae Clyd, Llandudno /Joint 3rd – Sue Jeffrey Cae Mawr, Llandudno

Thank you to everyone who took part, your gardens all look amazing! The prizes are on their way!

Gardening Competition 2023

Have you got green fingers? Enter our gardening competition and be in with the chance to win some great prizes!

  • Best garden
  • Most improved garden ‑ open to tenants who have improved their garden (before and after photos will be required)
  • Best container garden ‑ pots, baskets, window boxes etc.

Not a keen gardener? Nominate a friend, relative or neighbour instead! Closing date is 23rd June 2023.

If you would like more information contact Iwan Evans on 01492 563232 or [email protected]

Note: All entrants must be tenants of North Wales Housing.

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Resident satisfaction survey winners

Thank you to everyone who took the time to complete our satisfaction survey in December.

The survey results will be shared with you soon. In the meantime, the prize draw winners have been selected at random.

The High Street voucher winners are:

  • 1st – Brian Woosnam
  • 2nd – Lynne Eaglestone
  • 3rd – John Turner and Stephen Hall

Congratulations! The winners have been presented with their vouchers.

Good neighbours rewarded this Christmas

All communities have a person who goes the extra mile to help their neighbours. We felt that these people should be celebrated, that’s why we launched the NWH Good Neighbour award.

We asked people to nominate those who really makes a difference to where they live, keep an eye out for their neighbours or always ready to lend a helping hand when needed.

We had some great nominations, full of examples of neighbours supporting each other. We considered the nominations and are pleased to reveal that the two winners are Rachel Turnbull from Noddfa and Dorothy Caudwell from Llys y Coed. Find out why they were nominated below:

Rachel Turnbull, Noddfa

Rachel volunteers three days a week cooking and feeding the homeless. She also goes above and beyond in preparing and giving meals to her fellow residents. She will cook meals for her fellow residents, making sure that everybody’s needs are catered for, often buying ingredients from her own pocket. Rachael is bright and breezy and will help anybody in need. 

Dorothy Caudwell, Llys y Coed

Dorothy helps to organize a lot of entertainment activities for her fellow residents and has been instrumental in trying the get some normality back following Covid. She plays a very important role in building the community spirit here at Llys y Coed

Thank you to you both for being such amazing neighbours! And thank you to everyone who took the time to nominate.

Do you have a Good Neighbour you want to reward?

Do you know someone who really makes a difference to where you live? Are they always keeping an eye out for their neighbours and ready to lend a helping hand when needed?

As our tenant you can nominate another North Wales Housing tenant for a prize, giving them the chance to be presented with £50, and as a thank you for nominating an award winner you will also be given a £10 shopping voucher.

If you know of a tenant who goes that extra mile to help others, we would like to hear from you!

Closing date: 04/11/2022

Enter a prize draw to win shopping vouchers worth £50!

We have recently reviewed and tested the affordability of the rents and service charges we currently charge and are extremely pleased to announce that every single one of our rental charges are passing the affordability criteria.

The measure we have used is a tried and tested, popular and widely used affordability model developed by The Joseph Roundtree Foundation which states that rent is affordable if it is no more than 28% of a tenant’s income or 33% of the income if a service charge is also charged.

Naturally, we don’t have details of all our tenants’ income, therefore, we have used the Real Living Wage to calculate this as we feel that the majority of our working tenants will be earning this rate of income given the Welsh Government’s drive to pay staff the Real Living Wage.

We are extremely pleased to be sharing this news, but we need to know how does this feel for you? Is our assessment something shared by you? We are very eager to have your opinion on this and on the services you receive from North Wales Housing through answering survey below. North Wales Housing tenants completing the survey will enter the prize draw!

Survey link https://forms.office.com/r/iiGdrR5Ppw

If you wish to speak to someone at North Wales Housing about this survey, please contact Iwan Evans on 01492 563232 or [email protected]

Gardening competition winners revealed!

The summer’s here, gardens are green and blooming, the perfect recipe for the NWH Garden Competition!

Thank you to everyone who entered this year’s competition. This year’s entries were yet again amazingly high standard, and judges had a tough time deciding on the winners.

After much deliberation we are pleased to reveal that the winners are:

Best Garden

1st Agnes Jones, Cwrt WM Hughes, Llandudno

2nd Janet Hurd, Ty Llewelyn, Colwyn Bay

3rd Edward Arundel, Lloyd Street, Llandudno

Best Communal Space/Garden

Joint 1st Jean Hayward, Violet Mort, and James Mullins, Hafod y Parc, Abergele

Joint 1st Josh Williams, Pat Law, and Sam Thomas, Ty John Emrys, Colwyn Bay

2nd Nerys Prosser, Llain Deri, Colwyn Bay

3rd St Mary’s Hostel residents, Bangor

Best Container Garden

Joint 1st Val Conway, John Griffiths, and Shirley Thomas, Taverners Court, Llandudno

Joint 1st Reginald Atkinson and Joan Collins, Taverners Court, Llandudno

Joint 2nd Laslo Keri, Leslie Evans, Geoff Uttley, and Donald Blackman, Llys y Coed, Llanfairfechan

Joint 3rd Brian Edwards, Monte Bre, Llandudno

Joint 3rd Rachel Turnbull, Noddfa, Colwyn Bay

Congratulations to all winners. We will be in contact with all winners and runners up shortly with a prize.

St David’s Day competition winners

To celebrate St David’s Day we launched a tenant competition, asking you to draw a picture, artwork, collage or photo of what Dydd Gwyl Dewi or Wales means to you. 

The judges have deliberated and have confirmed that the winners are Bethan Hughes and Owain Ellis, congratulations to you both. 

Here are the pieces they entered, highlighting what Wales means to them. 

Thank you to all tenants who took the time to enter the competition.