Christmas intergeneration celebration at Wentworth Primary School in Maldon, Essex

Thursday 17th December 2009

On Thursday 10 December staff and residents from Moat sheltered scheme, Washington Close, attended Wentworth Primary School’s Christmas lunch. The intergenerational lunch was organised so that the older people could experience mouth watering school dinners that are made on site using fresh local produce.

13 residents walked the short distance to the school for the meal and on arrival found that students from year two had made Christmas cards for all of them. Year six pupils were delighted to help out and served traditional roast turkey followed by mince pies and ice cream.

This was the second time that Washington Close residents have been invited to the school for a meal and following the success of both meals, the head teacher will offer this to Washington Close residents once a term.

Lesley Richardson, support coordinator at the scheme in Maldon, says; “We want to build bridges between older and younger residents and encourage all age groups to challenge general perceptions about age. This Christmas dinner allowed residents from Washington Close to get to know their younger counterparts at Wentworth Primary School and break down some age barriers while celebrating the festive period!”

ENDS

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.

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.

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