Community Environment Fund 2022 | Liverpool City Region Combined Authority

Community Environment Fund

34 grassroots environment projects have won support from Mayor Steve Rotheram’s £500,000 Community Environment Fund.

Work will now get underway on the schemes which include transforming a fly tipping hotspot into a community garden, food growing, beekeeping, a therapy garden, biodiversity and a bike scheme.

Grants were available for smaller projects of up to £5,000, with up to £30,000 available for larger projects.

The fund’s application criteria was decided by the Liverpool City Region Climate Partnership which was set up to provide expert advice on tackling the climate emergency.

The 2022 fund’s objectives are to:

Improve the Liverpool City Region’s environment
Develop opportunities for environmental education to encourage long-term behavioural change
Promote community buy-in and participation to safeguard the long-term sustainability of quality green spaces

The fund will also seek to help the Liverpool City Region become net zero by 2040, reduce air pollution and improve the health and wellbeing of people across the whole city region.

The fund will help community environment organisations develop grant application skills to improve access to further local, regional, national and international funding streams.

2022 successful Community Environment Fund projects
Organisation	Region	Funding Amount ££	Project
Friends of Molyneux Drive Woodland and Forestry Space	Knowsley	£4,461	Forest school: Creating a Sustainable Environmental Resource for Learning & Fun Activity for the Community
Knowsley Foodbank	Knowsley	£9,691	Reduce your Impact: Creation of an information pack covering energy, food, waste and household essentials
KFCA	Liverpool	£15,319	Kenny Fields Young Growers: Creation of a community garden with events and ‘social supermarket’
St Mary’s Grassendale Wildflower Project	Liverpool	£1,300	St Mary’s Grassendale Community Composting site
The Centre for Sustainable Healthcare	Liverpool	£26,979	Liverpool University Hospitals Nature Recovery Ranger Programme: Creating biodiverse activities to engage people using the greenspaces at three Liverpool NHS sites
Hazlehurst Studios – (Old Town Bloomers)	Halton	£5,000	Old Town Bloomers on Tour: a tour of moveable raised beds around Runcorn to share environmental knowledge
Victoria Park Environment Team	Halton	£4,750	VPET Climate Curiosity: raising awareness
Make Creative Futures CIC t/a Make Bank	Liverpool	£4,995	Creative habitats – where have the creatures all gone? Creation of a green space to supply local ‘food union’
Everton in the Community	Halton, Liverpool, Knowsley and Sefton	£4,888	EitC Forest School Hubs
The Atkinson	Sefton	£5,000	Bees at The Atkinson
Crownway Community Centre	St Helens	£4,950	Eco Ambassadors of Crownway: Climate education for teenagers
Wirral Churches’ Ark Project	Wirral	£4,997	Grow Together Initiative: Hilltops Renovation community garden
Acronym Community Empowerment [ACE]	Liverpool	£29,999	Growing Community Roots at our volunteer community garden
Knowsley Disability Concern	Knowsley	£4,587	From plot to plate: the creation of a community kitchen and garden
Thingwall Primary School	Wirral	£4,995	Thingwall’s Big Biodiversity & Bloom: Creating garden and habitats around school
Bright Park	Liverpool	£23,870	Many Hands Lighter Work: Improving wildlife spaces across the park and train volunteers
Homebaked Community Land Trust	Liverpool	£28,650	Making homes more energy efficient by building a ‘local energy efficiency alliance’
St Joseph’s Hospice Accountable Body CQC	Sefton	£30,000	Community Woodland Project: the creation of a safe, wheelchair accessible pathway through 12 acres of hospice site
St Helens Chamber Ltd	St Helens	£18,179	Ready Steady GREEN – Climate education for St Helens
Sexton Avenue Community Allotment Garden C.I.C.	St Helens	£4,780	Accessible paths to food: Creation of a community garden and educational nature walk.
Earth Moves Cooperative Limited	Wirral	£29,958	Market Gardens Community food initiative
Halton Borough Council	Halton	£29,371	Big Halton Forest – Plant 2000 trees and 3000 shrubs at Factory Lane Site
The Gateway Collective	Sefton	£25,340	North Park Community Garden – grow, cook, eat.
Climate Friendly Food CIC trading as Fir Tree Community Growers	Knowsley, St Helens	£5,000	First experiences in the countryside: exploring climate education
Alt Valley Community Trust	Liverpool	£29,984	The Environmental Education Courtyard: Transforming an unusued and overgrown space into environmental education resource
The Eco Therapy Garden C.I.C	Knowsley	£5,000	The Eco Therapy Garden – A Pond for All: the creation of a personalised programme of eco and talking therapy to support and manage mental and physical health
Toxteth Women’s Centre	Liverpool	£4,325	The Jasmine Community Garden Project
Compost Works (UK) Ltd.	All	£22,500	Connecting Food Growers across the Region: Holding 20 open events to continue to encourage small, local food growing
Knowsley Metropolitan Borough Council	Knowsley	£29,000	Mellors Pond Landscaping Development and Drainage Management Project
Rule of Threes Arts Ltd	Sefton	£4,980	A Field of Flax in Linacre, Textiles Futures: Creative learning on textiles waste and climate literacy
Community By Nature	Sefton	£29,975	Our Community Habitat: offering learning and support to disadvantaged individuals through the natural environment
Halton Veterans Legion	Halton	£12,480	Veteran Bike Project: Collecting, repairing and distributing second-hand bikes
Plastic Tactics C.I.C.	Liverpool	£4,946	Plastic Adventures: Recycled art and craft sessions
Mulgrave Street Action Group CIC	Liverpool	£30,000	Mulgrave Street Community Garden – Build a new community grden on flytipped land.