ANNUAL REPORT 2018/19 Moving in the right direction Contents
4 Chairman’s Report
6 Facts and Figures
8 Save the Man on the Bench campaign
10 Regeneration
11 Recreation
12 Community
13 The CHAINS Workshop
14 Community Awards 2018
16 Education Contact Details www.facebook.com/hamiltondaviestrust Call: 0161 222 4003 Click: [email protected] 17 Irlam & Cadishead Cycleway Visit: www.hamiltondavies.org.uk www.twitter.com/HamiltonDavies Hamilton Davies Trust 18 Station Park Hamilton Davies House You can also check us out on 117c Liverpool Road YouTube and Instagram Cadishead Manchester 20 Grants Awarded 2018/19 M44 5BG 22 Looking ahead
2 3 Chairman’s Report
I am delighted to introduce you to our 2018/19 annual report, for what has been a very exciting year.
We have invested a total of £9.2m to support a variety of community projects and regeneration initiatives, to help make the area an even better place to live, work and enjoy.
I would like to kick off with a project that is particularly close to my heart and something that we have been working on for a number of years. Station Park, the quirky new green space has breathed new life into a once overgrown and gloomy part of the district. It’s been a complete team effort as well, with local volunteers and Neil McArthur, HDT Chairman Pedal Away cycling group companies all going the extra mile, under the watchful eye of our fantastic artist Rachelle Cleary, with support from Mandy Eccles. Plans are progressing well with the Cadishead During the year, the fund helped another 14 volunteer base who are instrumental in a lot of our Viaduct project, which is now at the feasibility youngsters take a step in the right direction and we projects. Thank you to the regulars who have been stage. We are hopeful this will come into fruition know Chris would be delighted with this. part of the team for such a long time, and continue in a few years and will enhance our Cycleway, to work hard and make a difference, and welcome providing links to the National Cycle Network. Our ongoing projects including: Free Art Friday, to all the new faces who have joined the merry iTea and Biscuits, heritage boards, Christmas throng. In 2018 the Man on the Bench sculpture celebrated lights and much more have continued to support his 40th birthday and to celebrate we started our the community and hopefully brought enjoyment to fundraising project to get him permanently back local people. into the community. It has been heart-warming to see the reaction across the area with a host of donations and events, such as non-uniform days, taking place to help raise funds. Station Park
Plans continued to develop the heritage element of the Irlam Station complex, to make it a destination rather than just a place to catch a train. A grade II Free Art Friday finder listed signal box was acquired and will be the future home of FIRST (Friends of Irlam Station) who do an incredible job looking after the station HDT Volunteer Event Lastly, I would also like to say a global thank you environment and in hosting community events. to everyone who has been involved in creating so many success stories at a grass roots level, Great strides were made with cycling, initially with We hosted our first Christmas coffee morning supporting each other and making the area what it the launch of the Irlam and Cadishead Cycleway, which proved to be a huge success with over 70 is today. This really is a wonderful community and I which Olympic Gold Medalist Chris Boardman MBE people visiting our office within 2 hours. I’d like am proud to be part of it. very kindly opened. This was complemented by Cadishead Primary School to say well done to the HDT team, who continue establishing a partnership with the community- enjoying story time at Station Park to astonish me with the things they achieve with based initiative Pedal Away, who are running such a small team, lots of delivering projects, local weekly bike rides, and the CHAINS (Change, engagement and creative ideas. Well done. Help and Advance in New Skills) workshop at We are very happy to see the Chris Stocks Fund HMP Risley, who have been donating refurbished supporting so many young people in Irlam and There is no doubt that we couldn’t achieve what bicycles for us to donate to people in need. Cadishead in the pursuit of a hands-on trade. we do without the support and hard work of our Neil McArthur 4 5 Facts & Figures Here’s a summary of our progress to date.