Green Neighbourhoods and communities – learning with the grassroots

2010-05-07T09:38:00.001-07:00

This innovative and informative workshop/meeting will take place from 11.30am-2pm on Thursday 13th April 2010 at First House, Brinnington, Stockport.
For more information contact: phoebe.spence@stockport.gov.uk

Communities for Change

2009-09-17T07:29:00.000-07:00

Communities for Change is an innovative project based in Greater Manchester highlighting and celebrating community organisations involved in grassroots environmental change.

The project culminated with the Communities for Change event on Saturday 12th September 2009 at MMU’s Didsbury campus, Manchester. The event followed a series of Journeys throughout Greater Manchester in which community-led environmental groups traveled by low carbon transport to visit and learn from each other’s projects. Communities for Change was overseen and funded by a community empowerment partnership including Manchester Metropolitan University, Community North West, the Federation of Community Development Learning, Neighbourhoods North West and North West Together We Can.

Transition Journeys
During August and September 2009 people involved in community-led environmental projects participated in a series of Journeys through Greater Manchester. Each journey featured a different form of low carbon transportation including trains, canal boats and even a red routemaster double decker bus.

Participants on the Journeys visited each other’s projects learning and being inspired by stories of environmental change, from community cafes and urban farms to centres of sustainability and education.

Over 25 groups took part in the Journeys all over Greater Manchester including Wigan, Tameside, Manchester, Stockport and High Peak.

Communities for Change
Attended by over 150 people from over 50 community groups the Communities for Change event took place on Saturday 12th September 2009 at Manchester Metropolitan University’s Didsbury campus, featuring films, music, food and open space discussion. The event offered a chance for networking, inspiration and exchange. It showcased amazing projects in which people and communities work together, featuring everything from bikes, to food, solar panels and allotments.

The event also featured documentation and stories from the Journeys. Films, photographs and audio stories tracked the journeys while participants were on hand to share experiences.

To get in touch contact info@communitynw.org.uk