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.