Our Delivery Report
Funded on 23 September 2024 | Delivered on 01 August 2025
£37,077
RAISED
111
BACKERS
54
DAYS TO FUND
BIGGEST PLEDGE
£27,076
From Liverpool City Region Combined Authority
200
people have visited this project!
8 bike spaces provided
12 Days volunteering opportunities
1 Job created
40 Volunteers involved
1 Social enterprise started
1 Vacant unit revived
1 Heritage site improved
0 invertebrate nesting panels generated
Growing Sudley CIC donated £10
2 Community buildings or spaces saved
2000 m2 of public or community space improved
3 SUDS areas developed
0 habitats and forage created
£7,500
DONATED
By Blundell Street Works
150 plants planted
12 People involved in project delivery
4 bird nesting boxes made
500 Community events created
More about our impact
The environment
We've transformed the lower car park area, solving flood issues and encouraging active transport at Sudley Estate (where previously there was nowhere to lock a bike). With help from Liverpool City Region Environment Fund, Spacehive and local community members we've created new habitats, food sources and biodiversity. This project has helped complete the low carbon retrofit of The Changing Rooms, creating a community developed asset that's ecologically impactful and providing long term impacts for human and environmental health. We are already being asked where we got our bike stores from, so look out for more of these lovely green structures across the city region!
The local economy
The Changing Rooms is a community business that has been developed to help support the Therapeutic Garden at Growing Sudley. The development is key to long term economic sustainability and demonstrates innovative use of community assets and public greenspace. This development will lead to long term jobs and economic impacts, using council assets holistically for community health and wellbeing. Development for the community, by the community.
Volunteering, jobs & education
Growing Sudley have been training and engaging volunteers for many years on a regular basis. This work will continue, providing training, jobs and volunteering opportunities for all in nature based and land based skills.
Arts, culture & heritage
We are a multi-disciplinary project, using arts, culture, green skills and regenerative land management to animate, improve and protect greenspace and community space. As well as running specific skills based courses, workshops and activities (horticulture, beekeeping, composting, traditional ceramics, herbalism, natural printing and dyes etc) we also work directly with artists on commissioned and collaborative project work.
Activity, health and leisure
Our project currently provides leisure, health and wellbeing services through nature to around 200 people per week. Connecting people to nature and therapeutic services, to outdoor pursuits and new skills, to meeting each other and developing relationships, this work will increase as our organisation becomes more economically sustainable for the long term. From a bare field, the garden is now a well designed, well appointed beautiful space and will continue to attract new and existing visitors. Sudley Estate is a hidden gem which very few people know about, the walled garden is a hidden gem within the park. We are bringing these hidden and nourishing corners to much wider audiences and creating the support and framework necessary to bring people with disabilities, long term health conditions and other marginalised communities in. We're inclusive and using the natural protected nature of the garden to engage marginalised communities. The infrastructure provided by this project encourages active transport and improves the infrastructure of the public park.
