Residents of Smirthwaite Estate came together on 1 June 2017 to celebrate Children’s Day.

A local woman who regularly attended a WDH work club in Featherstone has secured a permanent job after volunteering through the Dr Jackson Cancer Appeal shop.

After losing her husband, Mrs Clark, who lives in a WDH property, didn’t know if she could face the stress and disruption that home improvements can bring. However, after a little persuasion from her family she went ahead and now she couldn’t be happier with her new kitchen!

Specialist academics from Sheffield Hallam University, University of Salford and as far as Australia visited Park Dale in Airedale this week to see how the site has become one of the UK’s largest housing developments with a zero-carbon footprint.

WDH has won a national UK Housing Award for the financial help and support it provides to tenants.

WDH supported Friends of Pease Park with a preschool Easter event on Tuesday 4 April.

Children and young people took part in a host of Easter activities supported by WDH at the Old Addy Adventure Playground in Knottingley.

All of our offices and service access points (SAPs) will be closed from Friday 28 April and will reopen on Tuesday 2 May. If you need to contact us you can call 0345 8 507 507 or send a message using the WDH App, available on the App Store and Play Store.  

Our service access points (SAPs) will be closed on Thursday 27 April from 12 noon for employee training. They will reopen on Friday 28 April as normal. If you need to contact us you can call 0345 8 507 507 or send a message using the WDH App, available on the App Store and Play Store.  

From 5 April 2017 we became a charitable Community Benefit Society (CBS). We think this better reflects what we do. This doesn’t change the services we provide to our customers.  Read our CBS fact sheet for more information.   

Volunteers from across WDH joined forces to dish out career support and guidance to young people as part of Aspirations Week.

Children from Simpson’s Lane Academy in Knottingley celebrated finishing their SATs with a day in the park. Though they weren’t sitting back and relaxing just yet. They were picking up litter to improve the park, collecting 16 sacks all together, and adding planters to brighten up the area. They also did a street audit on the surrounding streets to highlight where improvements could be made.

WDH residents in Pontefract and Knottingley have taken part in a 10 week course to achieve a qualification in arts and crafts.

A collection of advent calendars were handed out at foodbanks across the Wakefield District by MRM Solutions and the WDH Cash Wise Team ready for Christmas.

A collection of advent calendars were handed out at the local foodbanks by the WDH Cash Wise team ready for Christmas.

Local children and residents gathered at Grasmere Park, in Knottingley, to show their support and discuss improvements to the area.

Employees from WDH donated £650 worth of food to local foodbanks in just a week, the equivalent of 26 adult food parcels.

Children and young people took part in a host of Easter activities supported by WDH at the Old Addy Adventure Playground in Knottingley.

100 Easter eggs have been donated to two West Yorkshire foodbanks, thanks to WDH’s Cash Wise initiative.

Our Cash Wise initiative has reached a landmark achievement after helping 1,000 social housing tenant to improve their finances.