St Thomas’s Community Gardening and Biodiversity Project

Carrots, cabbage and other green vegetables growing in raised beds

St Thomas’s Community Gardening and Biodiversity Project

About the project

PROJECT TITLE: St Thomas’s Community Gardening and Biodiversity Project

LOCATION: Salford

FUNDING: Awarded £9,560 in Round Four of the Greater Manchester Green Spaces Fund

DELIVERED BY: Clifton Parochial Church Council

The idea

This projects looks to increase biodiversity and tackle local food poverty, isolation and poor mental health by:

  • Establishing, managing, developing and maintaining an area of St Thomas’s Churchyard as a wildlife area, including a hedgerow, a small managed woodland and a wildflower meadow, and a further area as a community fruit and vegetable garden.
  • Helping local people to become more confident in working with others, in advocating for and working to improve the local environment and increase biodiversity.
  • Training volunteers from the local community in basic environmental management and sustainability
  • Training participants to develop skills to grow and use fruit and vegetables.

This project is supported by Auto Trader, who contributed additional funds to Round 4 of the Green Spaces Fund.