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Cheerful volunteers tidying up the area surrounding Millfields in Burnham on Crouch, Essex
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On Wednesday 10 March, local residents, staff from Moat and Burnham on Crouch Town Council, a local Police Community Support Officer and students from St Peter’s School in Burnham on Crouch took part in a litter pick in the area surrounding Millfields sheltered housing scheme. The clean up was organised by Moat and Burnham on Crouch Town Council and in total the volunteers collected 20 sacks of rubbish, five tyres, one old bike and an old scooter.
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. Moat and Maldon District Council staff got stuck into tidying up the neighbourhood and built on the already successful partnership with local residents.
Caroline Kay, Moat’s community development officer, says; “It’s important to maintain community pride and a sense of responsibility for the neighbourhoods in which we live and work. This litter pick allowed us and residents to work side by side to tidy up Millfields and spend some time outside in the long awaited sunshine!”
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 and key worker
housing offer. Follow us on www.twitter.com/HomeBuyUK.
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.
In the East, Moat owns and manages over 4,000 homes across 17 local authority areas in Essex and Hertfordshire. Moat is in partnership with the Greater Haven Gateway Choice based lettings, covering Maldon, Colchester, Braintree, Barbergh, Ipswich, Mid Suffolk and Suffolk Coastal local authority areas.
Moat works as an active partner in the Stansted Area Housing Partnership, M11 corridor, Thames Gateway, London commuter belt and Haven Gateway.
