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Elsie Fox and Hazel Blears
The Hill Street Residents Association in Higher Broughton played host to Hazel Blears MP and Mike Creamer, Chief Executive of local housing association Contour Housing Group this week.
Mike and Hazel were delivering Christmas Hampers to the Residents Association which intends to raffle off the goodies to local people.
“Colleagues at Contour have been collecting food and drink to provide hampers for local residents associations and housing offices,” said Mike. “We have managed to collect around 17 hampers and several of them have been ear-marked for groups in the Salford area.”
There are around 160 households in the Higher Broughton area that are owned and managed by Contour and the company was keen to thank the Residents Association for its work on alley gating and greening the local alley ways. Monies raised by raffling the hampers will provide further funding for the Association.
Mike and Hazel joined residents for lunch and a chat as they
delivered the hampers.
Hazel said, ‘I was delighted to be able to help hand over the
lovely hampers to the Hill Street residents, who have done
fantastic work improving the environment in their local area. I'm
pleased that Contour's generosity has recognised the dedication and
commitment of local residents and it was great to hear the
resident’s plans for 2010.
