Empowering people to improve their green spaces, enhance their environment, and boost wellbeing.
Transforming Green Grosvenor Park joined: idverde Community Investment Fund 9 months ago
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By Novus
The Friends of Green Grosvenor Park in Salford, would like to further develop the park space as a destination for local people to enjoy with their families and be a place to relax and socialise.
The Friends of Green Grosvenor Park have a vision and wish to see the park developed further as a space where people can connect more with nature. We would like it to be somewhere that is a destination of choice for leisure and play.
With the help of Cheshire and Greater Manchester CRC and their Community Payback team, we want to install pathways through the woodland area so people can get up close with nature. In the woodland there will also be a seating area which children will be encouraged to use as a place for adventure and story telling.
New picnic benches will be installed along with wooden planters that will have plants for added colour. There will be planting of new blossoming trees and all year round bulbs. New signage will also inform residents of the importance that this park plays as a local flood defence as demonstrated in the Salford Boxing day floods were the park filled with water as planned, thus saving many houses from the flood waters.
What we'll deliver:
Why it's a great idea:
The Friends of Grosvenor Park believe that this scheme will greatly enhance the park for all the local residents. It will turn the park from a cut through into a destination that people can be really be proud of and somewhere that families will want to bring their children.
It will encourage children from the local area to come into the park and have natural play in the woodland so that they can learn more about nature.
It will give people on Community Payback something worthwhile to put back into their community as well as gaining new skills that could lead to potential employment opportunities and contribute to a the local economy.
Overall it will give the community a place that they can love as their own.
Steps to get it done:
The project is multi stakeholder with Novus, Cheshire and Greater Manchester Community Rehabilitation Company, Salford City Council and Friends of Green Grosvenor Park. Novus will contribute Community Payback participants who will gain qualifications in horticulture, construction and employment readiness.
This will be an all round community project with everyone seeing first hand the difference people on Community Payback can make in the local area. With the whole community coming together to crowd fund for this project it will add much value to the park and really give people a sense of ownership of their surroundings.
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Empowering people to improve their green spaces, enhance their environment, and boost wellbeing.
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VolunteerIn September 2015 we launched our new organisation, Novus, as a response to feedback from colleagues, partners and stakeholders.
The introduction of our not-for-profit social enterprise followed 20 years of operating as The Manchester College, during which time we became the market leader in offender education, training and employability services.
Our vision is to be the UK leader and innovator in offender learning, skills and employability. We will provide interventions which reduce re-offending and divert people from criminal behaviour, allowing them to make a positive contribution to society.
It is our mission to improve lives and economic success through learning and skills. We are of the firm and passionate belief that education can change lives, so we take great pride in raising the aspirations of learners to increase employability and reduce re-offending.
We are dedicated to transforming the lives and economic potential of offenders by providing them with the pinnacle of offender education, training and employability services, regardless of their background. Delivering learning and skills in more than 100 sites within prisons, Approved Premises and community, we give offenders the knowledge, self-esteem and confidence to thrive in the world of work. Working with key partner organisations we will continue to strive to make a difference.
Project Owner: Jaime Wise The Project Owner takes legal responsibility for receiving and spending the funds raised and ensuring the project is delivered.
