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SALFORD FLOOD BENEFIT AT ST BONIFACES RAISES MORE FUNDS FOR VICTIMS
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Star date: 30th January 2016 SELL OUT AT ST BONIFACES HELPS MORE LOWER BROUGHTON FLOOD VICTIMS With all tickets snapped up within one day, the community of Lower Broughton came together last night for a benefit event at St Bonifaces Social Club, which was the centre of activity in the hours and days after the Boxing Day flood. "It's about having fun after all the hassle of the clean up" said Lorna Barker from Lower Broughton "Everyone can let their hair down for the night..." Full details here...
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Well over £1,500 was raised for victims of the Boxing Day flood at a benefit night, starring Homegrown, at St Bonifaces Social Club in Lower Broughton last night. Two hundred tickets for the event sold out within one day of its announcement and Vera Winter, of St Bonifaces, declared... "We're absolutely overwhelmed... "We've got name cards going round, we've got a raffle going on and we've got a packed hall" she added "We've even had people who couldn't make it tonight giving paid tickets back so that we could sell them on. The money is going into a fund that we hope will go back out to the flood victims to pay for wallpaper and things like that. We want it to go back to the people." Guests of honour at the event were a man from Cheadle and his family who, throughout the Christmas period, brought van loads of cleaning equipment for Lower Broughton residents and he was presented with a big `thank you' card... "The pouring out of goodwill and support has been incredible, you couldn't measure it, and I was absolutely amazed" said Mike Thorpe from the Broughton Trust, which, along with St Bonifaces, was at the centre of flood recovery activities. "It was my wettest and driest Christmas for different reasons but when I look back over that period I find that I had a good Christmas because, strangely enough, it reminded me that it was all about giving" he added "The community has all got together tonight to celebrate what they've actually done and to carry on raising money to ensure that things carry on being put right." Lorna Barker, who lives in Lower Broughton but managed to keep the flood water from going into her house, added: "I'm here to help to raise funds for the flood victims. This is great for the community it brings everyone together. It's about having fun after all the hassle of the clean up. Everyone can let their hair down for the night..."
See also previous Salford Star article When The Going Gets Tough Salford Gets Going - click here Main photo shows the team from St Bonifaces
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Alan wrote
at 15:07:01 on 30 January 2016 |
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| Salford gets a bad reputation sometimes, but there is a hardcore of folk which has gone out of its way to help the flood-affected residents of Lower Broughton. These fund raising events are a prime example. As\ a resident affected by the Boxing Day meltdown, I can only thank all those who have had the less fortunate in their minds. Right from day one, there were vehicles of volunteers stopping and asking whether we needed bread, cleaning stuff etc. Having refused, thinking some one else may need it more, I discovered a carrier bag full of items on my doorstep later that night. Special people indeed, who I feel bad for not thanking personally. They didn't seem to want special praise, just to help, like the fund-raisers. And Salford can be proud today. Meanwhile, my landlords, Salix Homes, had the cheek to call me yesterday, telling me my rent account was behind by... one week! My home is upside down, they want me to allow their contractors, the joke squad, to turn up whenever to inspect, deep clean, and other ways to waste money.. and yet they show the no compassion... because I have let my rent drift a little. Well, Salix... all I can say, is evict me and try renting this house out now, informing new people it's risk of flooding, and see what interest they will be. Sorry to go on, but my anger got the better of me. There are those that help for free - thanks again the angel volunteers - and there are others that protect their jobs and financial purse. Nice one, Salix.... |
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Michael Felse Free in Salford wrote
at 15:06:49 on 30 January 2016 |
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| Excellent news. Let the next Mayor of Salford do the good deed and match all the funding raised by local community groups in a 50/50 top up. There is money nationally for such. Do it, it is your Community suffering. And I want our City Mayor to sell our £19 million stake in that Luxury Garden Project. Sell The Garden to Donald Trump, or to China or to Russian investors. Use £19 million raised here in Salford; putting £7million to the flood defences. £3million to us vulnerable kids services including putting back the transport, £2million for best internet tablets into school desks that gives Salford learners a cutting edge education. £3million towards a Green Volunteers project - assigning over to them the local Parks. £500,000 to put local grown produce into local Food Banks. £3million into senior citizen care and support services. £500,000 respite breaks for carers that give so much of their own lives. |
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