Moat staff makeover St Mary's Island Community Centre

On Thursday 18 February Moat staff from the corporate development, property services and IT teams performed a much needed makeover on the St Mary’s Island Community Centre in Kent. In just one day, they painted the main hall, secondary smaller hall and entrance hallway. The event was organised as part of Moat’s commitment for staff to become more involved in Moat communities and to increase knowledge of all areas of the organisation.

The halls are used every day by the community at St Mary’s Island for clubs and activities varying from toddler group to Weight Watchers. With all this activity, the centre understandably experiences quite a bit of wear and tear and the walls were looking pretty grubby. The makeover team worked hard all day to emulsion the walls and even found time to clean and gloss the woodwork.

Moat’s sustainability and projects officer, Katriona Staples, manages the community centre and says; “With the next phase of housing at St Mary’s Island due to begin any day, the centre will have a new influx of residents making use of the valuable community resource. We’ve all had a great day and thoroughly enjoyed ourselves and the makeover will make a huge difference for all of the resident users.”

David Taylor, chair of St Mary’s Island Residents’ Association, says; “The Community Centre is a vital facility for St Mary’s Island and we are pleased to say, gets a lot of use. The wear and tear it inevitably experiences means that it requires a ‘spruce up’ every now and then. On behalf of the residents of the Island, I want to thank the Moat staff who gave up their day to freshen up the Centre and ensure it will continue to serve us all well for many years to come.”

About Moat:
Moat is a housing association providing affordable homes in thriving communities for people in the South East. For over forty years, Moat has delivered high quality general needs homes for affordable rent, supported accommodation and tenancy support services, and has a strong affordable home ownership offer.

Moat is one of the Homes and Communities Agency’s development partners and is also the government’s appointed HomeBuy Agent in Essex, Kent and Sussex. Employing 450 people, Moat provides excellent customer service to residents of our 20,000 affordable rented and shared ownership homes.
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