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A team of six painters from WDH volunteered their own time to help Wakefield Hospice to paint and decorate in the communal areas of the building.

A local woman who regularly attended a WDH work club in Pontefract has successfully passed her Phlebotomy course after receiving a WDH Foundation Grant.

The Debt and Cash Wise teams at WDH will be delivering a webinar to housing professionals across the UK on 6 December.

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

Employees at WDH dished out quick, tasty, cheap and easy to cook recipes to support the Pontefract Foodbank last week.

WDH, alongside Wakefield Council’s Adult Education Service, will be running two free courses from the end of October for tenants who would like to brush up on either their maths or English skills.

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

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.

People in Airedale braved the rain to watch a staged car and bike collision at The Square, Airedale.