The Community Green Grants Programme aims to help create more pleasant environments, provide health and wellbeing benefits through volunteering opportunities as well as access to healthy food, and helping promote local communities by bringing people together.
Councillors will debate a report next week setting out how £2.16m will be spent on local road safety schemes, improvements to traffic signals and pedestrian routes and schemes that deliver improved Active Travel options in 2024/25
Following the acceptance of £650,000 from Liverpool City Region, work is starting to upgrade any traffic signals that haven’t already been switched over to energy efficient LED lights.
As we approach March and the end of the planting season, there are just a couple of opportunities left to plant a tree at one of the community tree planting sessions – don’t miss out!
‘Love your leftover’ workshops are available as the council team up with local business, Stripe and Spot, so residents can discover tips and tricks on how to make your food go further.
A local community organisation, Bee Wirral CIC, is helping to stop furniture from going to waste in a project funded by Merseyside Recycling & Waste Authority (MRWA) and Veolia Community Fund.
Projects that are focused on preventing and reducing carbon emissions are in line to benefit from grants being offered by the Zero Waste Community Fund.
The ‘Cool Wirral’ partnership is looking for volunteers who would like to inspire others to take action and make changes to their lifestyle to tackle the climate emergency.
Four community compost sites are currently operating in Wirral are at Make Hamilton, St James Church, New Brighton, Christ Church in Higher Bebington and in Woodchurch. A fifth is in the process of being set up on Conway Street, Birkenhead
Eco-school students connected live via Zoom to researchers aboard the RRS Sir David Attenborough in Antarctica to ask questions about the work they are doing, climate change and much more.
