GROUNDWORK Mersey Valley's Neighbourhood Pride Project brought early Christmas presents to Widnes residents at Ditton Community Centre last Thursday.
The project is rolling out into new areas after a successful three years assisting people to regenerate their estates through environmental improvement projects on King-sway, Stewards Avenue and Dukesfield estates.
To celebrate the project developing further, the team held a Christmas consultation event at the centre with a variety of attractions for families.
In attendance were Father Christmas and his free grotto, Grumpy from Manchester provided recycling art workshops, magic shows from John Harding and a festive all-day buffet supplied by the centre.
Neighbourhood Pride staff were on hand to conduct a short survey with residents to find out how they felt about their estates, what were the good points, what needed improving and a chance to get involved with the project by leaving their contact details.
As a reward for their time, all participants were allowed to choose a free tombola ticket with the chance of winning a variety of environmentally friendly prizes.
Andy Battersby, senior projects officer with Groundwork Mersey Valley, said: 'Thanks must also go to Halton Borough Council's staff at Ditton Community Centre who worked tirelessly alongside us to make the day such a great success.'
Neighbourhood Pride hopes to work with people, listen to their ideas, link them to the right council departments and agencies and help them secure funding to deliver improvements on their estates.
