One of Britain’s most successful sportsmen inspired youngsters from across the North West at a Junior Wardens Day in Bury in July.

Willow Park Housing Trust has been crowned the most enterprising place in the Northwest, beating stiff competition from across the region in the nation’s Enterprising Britain competition.

Willow Park staff have recently got to know over 60 pupils at Peel Hall Primary school as part of a volunteer programme to help with reading. The programme has been very well received and made a significant impact, in particular it has contributed to an increase in reading ages for many pupils.

Staff from Willow Park and Parkway Green’s Housing Teams have taken part in training sessions in how to spot loan sharks, run by North West Trading Standards illegal money lending team.

This year’s Wythenshawe's Got Talent was officially launched in the town centre on Saturday. Over 300 applications were handed out and nearly 50 people have signed-up already to take part in the variety show.

We recently carried out a review of our responsive repairs service. The main changes are planned to start from April 2011.

Tenants have now moved into the newly built properties on Portway, Woodend Road, Norwell Road, Musgrave Road and Carrick Gardens and are delighted with their new Willow Park homes.

All Willow Park homes have now reached the Decent Homes Standard. The improvements made have been achieved 12 months ahead of schedule and have exceeded the Government’s requirements.

The closing date for applications is the 24th September with auditions being held on the 9th October at Wythenshawe Forum.

Following the recent Tenant Director elections for Willow Park Housing Trust’s Board, we can now confirm that Dennis Finnegan has been re-elected to the Board.

Willow Park has joined forces with the North West Ambulance Service and has become the first housing trust in the North West to join the Community First Responder scheme.

As part of a commitment to support literacy in the Wythenshawe area, Willow Park and Parkway Green Housing Trusts recently invited pupils from local Wythenshawe primary schools to meet a new character called ‘Robert the Rhino’.

Alf and Kath Hall of Willow Brook Gardens celebrated their Diamond wedding anniversary on 24th June.

Willow Park held an Older People’s week in June, which was a great success.

Since the transfer of Woodhouse Park & Moss Nook in October 2004 Willow Park Housing Trust has completed more than 16,500 improvements to homes and invested over £30 million in the area.

Willow Park Housing Trust has donated £1,000 to the Help for Heroes team who provide invaluable help to Britain’s badly wounded soldiers with practical support through their Personnel Recovery Centres.

It was all hands to the deck as Willow Park staff helped the residents of Henfield Walk and Tenterden Walk come together and turn their communal green into a haven of colourful plants – a place for residents to sit out and enjoy.

Congratulations to Abraham John and Baiju Matthew, of Woodhouse Park and Moss Nook, who won the Men’s Doubles event at the Badminton England No Strings Championship on Saturday 5th June 2010.

People from all corners of Wythenshawe came together over the recent May bank holiday weekend to create something ‘out of this world’ as Wythenshawe’s entry into the very first Manchester Parade, set to take place in June.

Apprentices at Willow Park Housing Trust are learning new skills thanks to an innovative sharing of resources with Wiggett Construction, one of the Trust’s partners in their current new build programme.

Rumours circulating that Willow Park has banned its customers from flying St George's flags during the World Cup are not true.

Willow Park has listened to its customers and agreed its priorities for its Annual Plan for the financial year 2010/11.

We are currently reviewing our responsive repairs service and have recently held a number of focus groups with a range of residents to find out what customers want from the service.

This is your chance to join the Willow Park board and play an important role in decisions that directly affect you.

Willow Park Housing Trust has just announced the start of a new housing development in the Painswick area of Woodhouse Park in Wythenshawe. The site, to be built in two phases, will include 50 homes for rent and 38 homes for shared ownership.

The official opening of the Youth Hub in Benchill, Wythenshawe, took place on Friday 26 March in their new premises - a superb, newly-refurbished facility in the grounds of Benchill Community Centre

Tenants have started to move in to the first of the 151 new Willow Park homes that are being built as part of a £14 million new build programme across the area.

Willow Park Housing Trust is one of a number of local housing providers taking part in a national, government-led initiative aimed at preventing and detecting fraud.

The new Willow Park Housing Trust head office, scheduled to open at the end of 2010, is well and truly on its way up.

Felicity Goodey CBE, businesswoman and former BBC journalist and presenter with a passion for business in the North West and Wythenshawe has agreed to become the patron of ‘Handbags & Briefcases’ - the fledgling Wythenshawe Business Women’s network and support group.

During the recent extreme weather conditions staff from Willow Park Housing Trust volunteered to work through the weekend so that they could contact their more vulnerable tenants to check that they were coping and supplied with essential provisions.

Help the Aged, with support from British Gas, have produced a very useful leaflet which may just help you to cope with the ‘big freeze’.