Green team shows it’s keen MANCHESTER: A communal garden in Harpurhey has been given a new lease of life thanks to YET – Your Environmental Team. The group, who help ex-offenders get back on their feet, tackle the areas environmental problems by restoring neglected green spaces and cleaning up ‘grot spots’. Their latest projects was at George Thomas Court, where the team carried out a litter pick, cut down overgrown bushes, removed graffiti, jetwashed paving stones and installed new rotary driers.
Making Wybourn safer SHEFFIELD: Residents of Wybourn are benefiting from a number of new improvements to improve safety, parking and reduce congestion on bus routes across Wybourn. The projects have been funded by the Great Places VAT shelter. In some areas the ugly concrete banking has been replaced with gabion yorkstone walls and grass verges and the double kerbs have been lowered, new laybys and parking created. Ginnels at Boundary Road have been widened to improve safety and new gateway entrances have been created on the three entrances to Wybourn from Manor Lane.
A taste of success
Allotment love OLDHAM: A successful Shared Spaces Fund helped transform areas around Woodpark Court, Limeside, Oldham into a community allotment after consultation with tenants (check out our cover story to find more communal areas we transformed).
KNUTSFORD: Dads, Grandads and big brothers joined forces with their families to build a personalised toy box as part of the Open Doors 2 Dedicated Dads programme, hosted at St John’s Community Centre, Longridge. Thanks to funding from Knutsford Town Council, the 10 teams met weekly to design and create their toy chests – with some problem solving exercises thrown in along the way! If you would like to take part in this course, contact Alex Barker on 07917 527280 for more details.
The team planted a variety of vegetables and we enlisted the support of Manchester College who came and erected beds, filling them with top soil. They will also be running gardening workshops monthly so the volunteers can run the allotment themselves.
Bulbs kept alight BLACKBURN: Our landscapers Greenfingers recently gave a donated sack of daffodil bulbs that would have otherwise gone on their skip as they were beginning to sprout. These bulbs we gratefully received from our local supported scheme, In Partnership at Blackburn.
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