New Year honour for housing chief

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THE CHAIR of Warrington based Your Housing, Kathy Cowell (DL), has been awarded an OBE in the Queen’s New Year Honours.
The former Chair of NHS Cheshire Warrington and Wirral and Vice Chair of Warrington NHS Trust, received the award for services to the community in Cheshire and Greater Manchester.
Your Housing Group was formed in April 2012 following the merger of Harvest Housing Group and Arena Housing Group.
The merger created a new Group with a combined stock of around 32,000 properties across Warrington and the North-West, Yorkshire and Midlands (made up of 18,000 from Harvest and 14,000 from Arena) with a projected annual turnover of approximately £150 million per year.
Currently based on Birchwood Park the housing association is currently having a new purpose built HQ developed on the site.
Kathy also previously worked for the Cheshire Building Society, based in Stockton Heath and managing the Warrington offices.
She is also a founding director of the Cheshire Community Foundation.
International pianist Stephen Hough, (pictured left) a former pupil of Thelwall Junior School, has been made a CBE for services to music.
Born in Heswall, he moved to Thelwall with his family and began music lessons at five.
At 17 he was a finalist in the BBC Young Musician of the Year Competition, winning the piano section.
Hough who holds a Master’s degree from New York’s prestigious Juilliard School and an honorary doctorate from the University of Liverpool, has had a long and distinguished career as one of the world’s leading concert pianists, and also writes and composes.
But he often returns to the Warrington area, giving recitals at the Live at St Wilfrid’s concerts at Grappenhall and also at Lymm.
Meanwhile ex rugby league referee and former Warrington Cricket Club man Stuart Cummings has been awarded an MBE.
Cummings from Widnes, stood down from his role as director of match officials in March.


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