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Tuesday 25th July 2023

WISH Summer Newsletter 2023

Welcome to our summer newsletter, yes it really is still summer everyone, despite what the weather may be suggesting, and here’s an update on what’s been happening at WISH during the previous quarter…


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Wednesday 29th March 2023

WISH Spring Newsletter 2023

Welcome to our Spring newsletter! It’s been such a busy quarter for everyone at WISH that I hardly know where to start….


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Thursday 24th March 2022

WISH Spring Newsletter Yorkshire and Humberside

Read the latest news from WISH Yorkshire and Humber..


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Latest News Archive

WISH Yorkshire and Humberside Summer Newsletter 2021

In May this year WISH Yorkshire and Humberside welcomed their brand new chair Charlotte Murray

WISH Yorkshire & Humber Winter Newsletter 2020

The WISH Yorkshire & Humber board would like to send all their members the very best of Christmas wishes and here’s hoping to a healthy and happy 2021.

WISH Y&H held a 'Lets Talk Menopause' Webinar

Watch the latest WISH Y&H Webinar 'Let's Talk Menopause' with guest speakers.

WISH Yorkshire Spring News 2020

WISH Yorkshire & Humberside held a fantastic morning learning about board skills with the brilliant Liz Cross, Gelradine Howley and Tony Stacey.

Sector must focus on attracting new female talent into housing in 2020

Attracting a new generation of women into a career in housing should be one of the sector's key priorities for 2020, according to the Women in Social Housing (WISH) group.

CHANGES AT THE TOP FOR WISH BOARD IN THE NORTH

WISH, the only member-based network for women working across every discipline of UK housing, has welcomed new Chairs of the board at its North West and Yorkshire and Humberside regions.

WISH Yorkshire & Humber - Autumn Newsletter

WISH Yorkshire and Humberside warmly welcomed new board members to the team in the Summer.

Glad rags on for Women In Housing

WISH support the annual WIH Awards Now in its seventh year, the Women In Housing Awards held in Manchester in early October is getting bigger and bigger and was an amazing opportunity to celebrate the achievements of women in the sector from all over the UK.

WISH Yorkshire & Humber - Secrets to Success

On the 12th September 2019 WISH Yorkshire and Humberside held a fantastic event called 'Secrets to Success' at Capsticks LLP's offices in Leeds City Centre.

Sponsors Spotlight

At WISH we are hugely grateful to our National Sponsors who support us every year and help us to keep delivering a great service to our members.

WISH Yorkshire & Humber - Archetypes - Present in a style to match

An interactive, informative and practical morning allowing those attending to explore how they present, how they want to present and what this actually feels like.

WISH Yorkshire & Humber - Change & Personal Resilience

On Thursday 23rd May, WISH Yorkshire hosted an event on Change & Personal Resilience. The session was kindly hosted by Savills in Leeds and was run by Mark Turnbull from Do-Well (UK) Ltd.

Yorkshire & Humber Spring Newsletter 2019

Welcome from WISH Yorkshire. There has been plenty happening with changes to our board and a calming session on how to handle the everyday stresses of life.

WISH Yorkshire & Humber - Winter Newsletter 2018

Welcome from WISH Yorkshire, we've had a busy year so far including a brand new website and logo! We hope you like it as much as we do.

WISH Yorkshire - Dare to be (a little bit) Different

A wonderful afternoon delivered by Richard Pascoe from 'Making Presentations' and hosted by Leeds Federated Housing Association. 26 people from across the region and a visitor from the North West all jumped in feet first to participate in 'Dare to be (a little bit) different'.

Secrets Of Success

Following ever popular demand, we held another successful Secrets of Success event in the WISH Yorkshire and Humber region. The event was really well attended by people from various stages in their career and received all who attended gave great feedback.

Social Media and You

'Social media and me' proved to be a popular session as many of us know we should really 'do' social but we're not really sure how! Our board member (and comms guru) Caroline Chapman, was joined by the talented Hannah Jowett of Leeds Federated to take us on a whistle stop tour of how to get our social media in order!

WISH Yorkshire & Humberside Spring Newsletter

Here in Yorkshire our WISH regional events programme is about helping you #unlockyournetwork and create connections with like-minded individuals in the sector.

WISH Yorkshire & Humber Event - Beat The Christmas Blues

The holidays were over. Winter colds had set in. We have bills to pay and Leeds was offering us what can only be described as tumultuous weather - however nearly 50 brave women from across Yorkshire gathered together in the fantastic Dirty Martinis for our brilliant beat the January blues event!

WISH Yorkshire & Humber Winter Newsletter

Welcome to your Winter newsletter from Yorkshire & Humberside. We have a series of exciting events lined up for you in the coming months!

Heidi Thompson - Breaking Down Barriers For Women In The Social Housing Sector

WISH's Yorkshire and Humber Chair, Heidi Thompson is breaking down the barriers for women in the social housing sector.

WISH Yorkshire & Humber - Summer Fun Cocktail Making Evening

WISH Yorkshire and Humber Region Holds Summer 'Get Together' Fun Cocktail Making Evening

WISH Yorkshire & Humber Region Summer Newsletter

Gone are those winter blues with the summer season finally here. (Well maybe, it is England after all!) We hope you've enjoyed the events with us so far, for those who couldn't make it, here are some of the highlights

WISH Yorkshire & Humber - Spring Newsletter

We've gotten off to a flying start for 2017! We kicked off the year with our New Year New You event and are looking forward to our Step Out and Speak Out Event coming up next week!

WISH Yorkshire And Humber Kicks Off With New Year, New You!!

Emma Walker-Cotton of Causeway Consulting joined us at Leeds Federated and challenged the women of Yorkshire and Humber to stop limiting ourselves, be authentic and build our networks to achieve our goals!