Editorial: some personal thank-yous
This issue of WHQ sees some changes for the magazine. We say goodbye and thank-you to two advisory board members – Kellie Beirne and Peter Williams. Peter is a founding member of WHQ – that the magazine is still being published nearly 23 years after its first issue is in good part down to Peter. We will look to draw on Peter’s expertise in the years to come albeit at arms length.
We also welcome two new members to the advisory board:
- Ben Black, Communications and Marketing Manager at Bron Afon Community Housing and joint chair of Community Housing Cymru’s PR Network
- Clare Way, Neighbourhood Support Manager at NPT Homes
We thank them in advance for their input and look forward to them attending the next advisory board meeting.
Thank-you also to all those WHQ readers who have responded to the online survey – the results are proving very useful in demonstrating the reach of the magazine within the Welsh housing and regeneration sector, as well as informing future advisory board decisions about the format of WHQ.
This is my last issue as WHQ editor. I have very much enjoyed working jointly with new editor Jules Birch and know that WHQ will go from strength to strength under his editorship. I am now working four days a week as Specialist Policy Adviser to Welsh Government Minister for Housing, Regeneration and Heritage, Huw Lewis and outside of this will continue to work on a number of areas including governance.
I would like to say thank-you to everyone who has made WHQ what it is – advisory board members (with a special thank-you to chair Judy Wayne), Cardiff University and CIH Cymru, the many people who have written for the magazine without any remuneration, advertisers, sponsors, subscribers, freelancers and the Welsh Government which provides some financial support for the magazine.
It is very much our aim that the housing and regeneration sector sees WHQ as its own and when you count up how many people and organisations contribute to the magazine in one way or another and those who read it, I think that we have collectively achieved this aim.
Tamsin Stirling