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In August we held our Block Champion Annual General Meeting (AGM) in Birkenhead Park Pavilion. Over 30 tenants came together for an afternoon of celebration to look over their accomplishments in the past year and discuss their ideas for the future of the blocks.

Magenta Living has recently donated £5,000 to Wirral Foodbank, providing much needed support for them as they continue to provide food parcels over the coming months. 

Wirral Foodbank has seen a 30% increase in demand over the past 12 months which has meant that they are having to buy-in more food rather than rely on food donations alone.  This has resulted in them spending an average of £1,000 per month and are expected to do this until September, when donations from harvest festival collections are provided. 

Magenta Living has ambitious plans to increase its development programme by delivering 2,200 new homes by 2022.  We are delighted the regulator has recognised that Magenta Living is compliant with their regulations and has the financial ability to deliver these new homes with our continuing high viability rating.

Magenta Living Environmental Services has been out and about again working with their partners Birkenhead BID and Wirral Council with help from Community Pay Back.

Patrycja Marekwica, one of our mobile cleaners, has won a prestigious award at the Reachout Wirral Partnership Awards.

We want to provide you, our customers with a choice of communication channels which you feel comfortable using, whether that’s online, telephone or face to face. We have recently launched a Live Chat feature which gives you the option to ‘chat’ with one of our customer access advisors anytime between 9am and 3pm, Monday – Friday on our website. Look out for the Live Chat banner to start a chat!

The Charted Institute of Housing and ITN Productions have produced a current affairs-style programme exploring how to tackle the UK's housing crisis. 'Solving the Housing Crisis?' brings to life how we can provide more affordable homes and showcases the housing associations, local authorities and housing professionals leading the way.

The below video features Magenta Living's Crossways Estate in Birkenhead, highlighting the recent efforts we have undertaken to improve the neighbourhood.

Want to learn something new, for free? Wirral Festival of First is kindly offering some free spaces on two exciting new courses: Cartoon Workshop and Stop Motion Animation. 

Paul Anson, Director of Business Growth at Magenta Living is taking on the ultimate challenge this summer in aid of Claire House Children’s Hospice. Paul hopes to cycle 2,745 miles from Canada to New Mexico, pushing himself to his limits to raise funds for an incredible charity.

New Data Protection Legislation came into force during May 2018.