WIDNES VIKINGS HELP TRANSFORM ST MARY'S PARISH COMMUNITY CENTRE
2 September 2009
The Widnes Vikings will be invading St Mary's Parish Community Centre on Friday 4th September, to add the finishing touches to Pochin Construction's refurbishment of the community centre in West Bank, Widnes.
As the Parish will be celebrating its Centenary year in 2010, Cheshire-based Pochin Construction decided to donate £3,000 towards the refurbishment of the community centre, as well as volunteering its services to carry out the improvement works. The work involved repairing the roof and replacing slate tiles where necessary, installing new disabled bathroom facilities, and managing the internal redecoration of the centre.
On Friday 4th September 2009, between 10am and 2pm, Pochin will officially hand the centre back to the Parish and, to mark the occasion, the Widnes Vikings have been invited to help apply the last strokes of paint to the internal walls of the centre. Viking stars; Anthony Thackeray, Mark Smith, Richard Fletcher, John Duffy, Scott Yates, Shane Grady, Paddy Flynn and Anthony Mullally will all be donning their overalls to help complete the community centre transformation. Once the decorating is finished, the players will be on hand to sign autographs, before enjoying a buffet lunch and a raffle to help raise money for the self-funded community centre.
On the transformation of the community centre, Lara Da Rocha-Faria, CSR Manager for Pochin Construction, commented: "St Mary's Parish Community Centre was in need of some TLC but because it is self-funded, the team has had difficulties in raising sufficient funds. Through our in involvement constructing new premises for the Stobart Group in Widnes, we became aware of the community centre's plight, and along with the generosity of our subcontractors and clients, we have been able to give a new lease of life to the centre in order to better reflect the community it serves."
Pochin Construction has recently completed the £22m project in Widnes for Vikings sponsor, The Stobart Group. The project reached practical completion at the end of July this year and involved the construction of a new 32,515 sq m (350,000 sq ft) chilled distribution store and a 12,449 sq m (134,000 sq ft) recycling services centre on Mathieson Road in Widnes.