RESIDENT CHAIR – MANOR FARM

My name is Pat Watson. I am Chair of Manor Farm Residents Association. The association was formed three years ago after a few years in which the estate was without a Chair (the Chair of the last residents association stepped down after they became ill).

The new Manor Farm Residents Association has been going for about three years and although I don’t live on the estate now, I did live there for 30 years before moving nearby after my husband passed away.

I have four children, all of whom were brought up on the Manor Farm estate and I have worked in the community for 15 years daily at Henley Green Community Centre and for NDC these last nine years as Vice Chair of the WEHM Board.

Manor Farm Residents Association is at the moment a small group of volunteers who work to make life better on the estate, putting on trips in the summer and parties and entertainment during most of the year – all of which we have to bid for money so we can provide these things for the community.

We have recently secured funding for a park which will be up and running this year and Mandy Pearce, one of our volunteers was nominated for an award for her hard work in securing this money.

We meet at Henley Green Community Centre on the 3rd Monday of every month and 10 -11am. It would be lovely to see more people come along and help make the estate a better place to live.