The Greater Manchester Green Spaces Fund is now live – and local groups can apply for funding.
A total of £2.6m is available across Greater Manchester for community projects that could make a real difference to residents and local areas.
Grants will be given to communities so existing green spaces can be improved or new ones created where they are needed most.
The fund makes small and large grants available, particularly where there is currently poor access to good quality green space. These projects could take place in parks, community gardens, streets, schools, housing estates, canals, streams, rivers and existing nature reserves.
Examples of the type of projects funding could support include:
- Improving existing or creating new accessible green space for people and/or wildlife
- Permanently greening streets
- Creating new pocket parks
- Community gardening and food growing
- Turning paved over areas to green areas
- Cleaning up and restoring streams, rivers, canals and ponds
To make things easier for applicants, several Green Spaces Fund Advisors are on hand to help with applications and offer support and guidance.
Please can you share this information with people in your wards. More information about the fund, and how to apply, can be found at www.gmenvfund.org