Eco-Neighbourhoods Audit: Combined

Ward(s) Page

Gorton N & S 2

Moston 6

Old Moat & 10

Rusholme 14

Whalley Range 18

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COMMUNITY ENVIRONMENTAL INITIATIVES AUDIT

WARD(S) NORTH AND SOUTH

Theme 1: Better Looking Neighbourhoods

Activity Details Contact e -mail s Clean -ups and litter -picks Grot -Spot, graffiti and other Hemmons Road area street representatives scheme None provided. nuisance reporting schemes Tree planting Flower beds and containers Darras Road Community Garden [email protected] (other than in parks and open [email protected] spaces) Back alley greening Tidying up/”meanwhile” uses of derelict land Anything else?

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Theme 2: Giving nature a helping hand - Gorton

Activity Details Contact e-mails Friends groups – parks and Friends of open spaces Friends of Gorton Park [email protected] Friends of Sunnybrow Park [email protected] Gorton Horticultural Society & Gorton Reservoir All otments Balsam-bashing and control of invasive plant species Native wildflower and plant Darras Road Community garden See above. conservation and propagation Wetlands and ponds Community-owned or managed woodlands or wild/natural spaces Bat/Bird box schemes and other created wildlife habitats Anything else? Heritage Garden in Debdale Park Debdale Park Eco Centre

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Theme 3: Living better lives - Gorton

Activity Details Contact e-mails Food growing schemes MMU Gardening Society [email protected] Affinity Sutton Darras Road Community Garden Project [email protected] Greenfingers [email protected] Sacred Heart Children’s Centre j.quayle@.gov.uk Allotment Plots in [email protected] Inspired to Grow [email protected] Community composting scheme, Debdale Eco Centre [email protected] HEAP – Highfield Eco Allotment Project [email protected] Food processing and production (eg honey, eggs, preserves) Air and/or water quality monitoring projects Outdoor gym equipment Nature trails/Health walks “Wild” adventure play Darras Road Community Garden See above re Darras Road. areas/den building etc. Anything else?

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Theme 4: Sustainability - Gorton

Activity Details Contact e-mails Watercourse and land drainage improvements Community energy conservation schemes Eco-homes (state whether new- build or refurbished) Community renewable energy schemes Community transport Environmentally-related social TRIM - Timber Recycling in Manchester [email protected] enterprises (eg coppicing, Tree Station [email protected] in timber products) Community-based environmental education initiatives Anything else?

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COMMUNITY ENVIRONMENTAL INITIATIVES AUDIT

WARD(S) MOSTON

Theme 1: Better Looking Neighbourhoods

Activity Details Contact e-mails Clean-ups and litter-picks Local groups may be in receipt of Clean City Clean U p grants or CASH grants Grot-Spot, graffiti and other nuisance reporting schemes Tree planting Red Rose Forest were involved in a project at Lightbo wne in partnership Hilary Wood with Irk Valley [email protected] Flower beds and containers (other than in parks and open spaces) Back alley greening Tidying up/”meanwhile” uses of derelict land Anything else?

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Theme 2: Giving nature a helping hand - Moston

Activity Details Contact e-mails Friends groups – parks and Friends of Broadhurst Part of Irk Valley Project contact Jo Fraser open spaces [email protected] or http://www.friendsofbroadhurst.org.uk/

Friends of Moston Brook Ann Bates Moston Brook Project Officer [email protected] Also Lancs Wildlife Trust own Moston Fairway Nature Reserve – contact via Ann B Balsam-bashing and control of Friends of Broadhurst Part of Irk Valley Project contact Jo Fraser invasive plant species [email protected] or http://www.friendsofbroadhurst.org.uk/

Friends of Moston Brook Ann Bates Moston Brook Project Officer [email protected] Also Lancs Wildlife Trust own Moston Fairway Nature Reserve – contact via Ann B Native wildflower and plant As above conservation and propagation Wetlands and ponds As above Community-owned or managed woodlands or wild/natural spaces Bat/Bird box schemes and As above, plus other created wildlife habitats NEPHRA bird box making sessions Claire Balshaw [email protected] Anything else? FC United football Club have built a new stadium in the area. Their site drains into SUDS wetland at Broadhurst Clou gh.Their

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volunteers keen to develop nature friendly areas, lit ter pick etc etc. – awkward as some people did not agree with ch osen site. Theme 3: Living better lives - Moston

Activity Details Contact e-mails Food growing schemes St Dunstan’s School Allotment [email protected] Food processing and production (eg honey, eggs, preserves) Air and/or water quality monitoring projects Outdoor gym equipment Nature trails/Health walks NEPHRA run nature rambles.

Moston Marchers Health Walk Group contact Dave Clutterbuck http://www.walk4life.info/walk/moston-marchers Health Walk Development Officer

0161 230 1857 [email protected] “Wild” adventure play areas/den building etc. Anything else?

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Theme 4: Sustainability - Moston

Activity Details Contact e-mails Watercourse and land drainage Moston Brook project As above improvements Broadhurst Clough FC Utd Community energy conservation schemes Eco-homes (state whether new- build or refurbished) Community renewable energy schemes Community transport Environmentally-related social Crafty Co-op (use of recycled materials for producin g craft products) [email protected] enterprises (eg coppicing, timber products) Community-based Carbon Literacy Training (Northwards Housing) [email protected] environmental education NEPHRA run various activities for young people initiatives Ecology Unit’s ‘Grey to Green’ Pr oject has worked extensively with Friends of Broadhurst and Moston Brook running wildlife ID training and activities Anything else? FC United - invite

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COMMUNITY ENVIRONMENTAL INITIATIVES AUDIT

WARD(S) AND WITHINGTON

Theme 1: Better Looking Neighbourhoods

Activity Details Contact e-mails Clean-ups and litter-picks Informally, Old Moat Greenie members and families Pauline Hocking Withington Civic Society [email protected] NB – Old Moat Greenies are keen to work on Withingt on High Street Grot-Spot, graffiti and other Southway Green Inspectors Via Philippa Reece nuisance reporting schemes Withington Civic Society [email protected] [email protected] Tree planting OMG Members in gardens [email protected] STC – particularly fruit trees and bushes [email protected] Southway Housing Trust [email protected] [email protected] Eat Green – Fog Lane Park Amanda Woodvine Flower beds and containers OMG [email protected] (other than in parks and open Withington High street (who manages this?) spaces) Back alley greening STC have student contacts keen t o work on greening/cleaning activities [email protected] Tidying up/”meanwhile” uses of Potential on Southway land-locked sites? derelict land OMG have expressed desire to use Cinema site Golden lion site potential? Anything else?

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Theme 2: Giving nature a helping hand – Old Moat & Withington

Activity Details Contact e-mails Friends groups – parks and Friends of Hough End open spaces Q: could one be created for Old Moat Park? Friends of Loop? Friends of Fog Lane Park Ladybarn Park Balsam-bashing and control of invasive plant species Native wildflower and plant Sow the City and Old Moat Greenies are looking to i ncrease in Old [email protected] conservation and propagation Moat, through their own work and Southway’s Growing Communities [email protected] programme. Wetlands and ponds Sow the City and Old Moat Greenies are looking to i ncrease in Old [email protected] Moat, through their own work and Southway’s Growing Communities [email protected] programme. Community-owned or managed Sow the City and Old Moat Greenies are looking to i ncrease in Old [email protected] woodlands or wild/natural Moat, through their own work and Southway’s Growing Communities [email protected] spaces programme Bat/Bird box schemes and Sow the City and Old Moat Greenies are looking to i ncrease in Old [email protected] other created wildlife habitats Moat, through their own work and Southway’s Growing Communities [email protected] programme Anything else?

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Theme 3: Living better lives – Old Moat & Withington

Activity Details Contact e-mails Food growing schemes Next Step Project [email protected] Oak Lodge j.pennington- Sow the City manage the Growing Communities Programm e for [email protected] Southway and the Food Poverty Fund, which includes G rowing [email protected] Old Moat Primary School [email protected] OMG / tenants [email protected] Abermale Allotments [email protected] Withington Fire Station (not strictly Old Moat) [email protected] Ladybarn Primary School [email protected] Withington Garden Society [email protected] Food processing and Chickens are kept at Ladybarn Primary School. [email protected] production (eg honey, eggs, preserves) Air and/or water quality monitoring projects Outdoor gym equipment NB – there is an outdoor gym within nearby Arrowfiel d Estate – delivered by Southway? Opportunity in Fog Lane and other parks? Nature trails/Health walks Southway are looking to introduce trails and are als o doing an older [email protected] persons legibility project [email protected] Last year a health walk was run from Westcroft Commun ity Centre. [email protected] “Wild” adventure play areas/den building etc. Anything else?

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Theme 4: Sustainability – Old Moat & Withington

Activity Details Contact e-mails Watercourse and land drainage improvements Community energy Southway had a scheme reported in Advertiser mid Jan uary, worth [email protected] conservation schemes £68,000 about community energy etc Eco-homes (state whether new- Eco show home run by Carbon Co-op (Jonathan Atkinson) [email protected] build or refurbished) Southway had a scheme reported in Advertiser mid Jan uary, worth [email protected] £68,000 about community energy etc

Sow the City and Southway looking to create a demon stration garden in [email protected] 2015 in Old Moat and/or Withington. Community renewable energy schemes Community transport Environmentally-related social Sow the City [email protected] enterprises (eg coppicing, Old Moat Greenies [email protected] timber products) Community based Sow the City [email protected] environmental education Old Moat Greenies [email protected] initiatives Anything else?

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COMMUNITY ENVIRONMENTAL INITIATIVES AUDIT

WARD(S) -

Theme 1: Better Looking Neighbourhoods

Activity Details Contact e-mails Clean-ups and litter-picks Various clean-ups and litter picks take place across th e ward Please contact Elayne Redford, and are generally instigated either by resident group s, Eastlands Regeneration Ward Officer for Rusholme if Homes (the main social housing provider) with the supp ort of you need to contact groups the Neighbourhood Delivery Team. Clean City bid for tidy-up of Park Crescent, Rusholm e District Centre. Grot-Spot, graffiti and other Reporting is mostly done by residents via the City Co uncil’s nuisance reporting schemes Contact centre Tree planting Schuster Road & Park Range residents association have p lanted Katrina Cross (Chairperson) fruit trees in the back alley Flower beds and containers planters (along the central reservation ) were Everadine Bertrand (other than in parks and open procured by CASH grant via a small community group – spaces) Community Friendly.

Bulb Planting in Park Crescent

Schuster Road & Park Range RA won Manchester In Bloo m Anne Tucker award for community gardening - Small garden at cor ner of Park Range and Kent Road West Back alley greening Schuster Road & Park Range Residents Association Katrina Cross Platt & Claremont Residents Association Anne Tucker Tidying up/”meanwhile” uses of derelict land Anything else? Groundwork Landscaping carrying out ex ternal environmental

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works to properties on Wilmslow Road estate

Theme 2: Giving nature a helping hand - Rusholme

Activity Details Contact e-mails Friends groups – parks and Friends of Birchfields Park Eugene Gallagher (Chair) open spaces Jon Atkin – , Community & Cultural Services Jon Atkin West Point RA – Clean City bid for improvements to We st Point Park Friends of [email protected] Balsam-bashing and control of invasive plant species Native wildflower and plant Friends of Birchfields Park As above conservation and propagation Wetlands and ponds Community-owned or managed Friends of Birchfield park (park includes a Forest Gar den) woodlands or wild/natural spaces Bat/Bird box schemes and other created wildlife habitats Anything else? Bee Trail in the development stage – Schuster Road & Park Katrina Cross Range RA

Envirolution – a community cooperative set up to pr omote sustainable projects with a focus in and around Platt F ields Park Paul Mitchell (just outside Rusholme ward boundaries). [email protected]

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Theme 3: Living better lives - Rusholme

Activity Details Contact e-mails Food growing schemes Food processing and production (eg honey, eggs, preserves) Air and/or water quality monitoring projects Outdoor gym equipment Nature trails/Health walks Health Walk Birchfields Park

Birch Community Centre run a health walk Naveed Akthar [email protected]

“Wild” adventure play areas/den building etc. Anything else?

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Theme 4: Sustainability - Rusholme

Activity Details Contact e-mails Watercourse and land drainage improvements Community energy conservation schemes Eco-homes (state whether new- Dwell demonstration eco-house, 265 Wilmslow Road M14 5LN Rick Frankland build or refurbished) 0161 225 4000 Community renewable energy schemes Community transport Environmentally-related social enterprises (eg coppicing, timber products Community-based Carbon literacy project providing understanding on h ow to Rick Frankland environmental education reduce carbon footprint, live more sustainably, reduc e energy Tel: 0161 225 4000 initiatives and consume less. Anything else?

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COMMUNITY ENVIRONMENTAL INITIATIVES AUDIT

WHALLEY RANGE

Theme 1: Better Looking Neighbourhoods

Activity Details Contact e-mails Clean-ups and litter-picks The Whalley Rangers group actively work within the w ard carrying On contact sheet out litter picks, clean ups Grot-Spot, graffiti and other As above nuisance reporting schemes Tree planting The Residents of Chatburn Road group received CASH fu nding for Carol Mowl - The Residents of Chatburn 17 ornamental trees to be planted in 2010/11 Road [email protected]

The Residents of Egerton Road South received CASH fun ding for 12 Charlotte Hopkins - The Residents of ornamental trees to be planted in 2010/11 Egerton Road South charlotte.hopkins@.co.uk Flower beds and containers Victoria Road Homewatch On contact sheet (other than in parks and open spaces) Back alley greening Ellesmere and Chandos Road Residen ts Association - Sue Manley – [email protected] Tidying up/”meanwhile” uses of derelict land Anything else?

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Theme 2: Giving nature a helping hand – Whalley Range

Activity Details Contact e-mails Friends groups – parks and Friends of Alexandra Park On contact sheet open spaces Friends of Manley Park Emma Wilton -

[email protected]

Balsam-bashing and control of invasive plant species Native wildflower and plant conservation and propagation Wetlands and ponds Community-owned or managed Range Road Residents Group - The group have adopted a unused On contact sheet woodlands or wild/natural woodland area and converted this in to a tranquil pu blic space for spaces the community. Bat/Bird box schemes and Whalley Range Bat and Bird Project – The group rece ived CASH Wil Woan - [email protected] other created wildlife habitats funding in 2011/2012 to install 3x bird boxes and 3x bat boxes in the ward. A website was also developed called www.wr4wildlife.wordpress.com Anything else?

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Theme 3: Living better lives – Whalley Range

Activity Details Contact e-mails Food growing schemes St Margaret’s Centre and Playing Fields – Food growin g projects Claire Cowell - info@st-margarets- undertaken. centre.co.uk Food processing and St Margaret’s Centre and Playing Fields – Food growin g projects Claire Cowell - info@st-margarets- production (eg honey, eggs, undertaken. centre.co.uk preserves) Air and/or water quality monitoring projects Outdoor gym equipment Nature trails/Health walks “Wild” adventure play areas/den building etc. Anything else?

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Theme 4: Sustainability – Whalley Range

Activity Details Contact e-mails Watercourse and land drainage improvements Community energy conservation schemes Eco-homes (state whether new- build or refurbished) Community renewable energy schemes Community transport Environmentally-related social enterprises (eg coppicing, timber products) Community-based Whalley Range 4 Wildlife Group. Wildlife surveys and nature Nadine Andrews - environmental education events initiatives [email protected]

Anything else?

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