By Lauren G and Tahirah M On Friday, 20th September, Bolton residents gathered in the town hall square, joining thousands of people around the UK in protesting about climate change. Greta Thunberg, the Swedish schoolgirl who started to protests to raise awareness of the risks posed by climate change, says “We have run out of...
Category: Environment
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Johnson Fold Litter Pickers Hallowe’en Event
The Litter Pickers of Johnson Fold are hosting a ‘litter pick and treat’ event, in partnership with Bolton at Home, on Saturday 27th October from 12 to 4pm. There will be a variety of stalls plus music and games at the UCAN centre in Johnson Fold Avenue, and Hallowe’en fancy dress litter picks (with treat...
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Litter Pickers of Johnson Fold
The Litter Pickers of Johnson Fold have a mission to transform their estate in north-west Bolton. Formed just 12 months ago, the group received a runners-up award in the Sparkling Environment category at the 2018 Bolton at Home Community Awards ceremony. The group’s secretary, Sharon Powell, said: “It all started as a Bolton Live project....
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Crompton Litter Picking Event
On Monday 26th May, Bolton community development partnership (Bolton CDP) in collaboration with St. Thomas primary school, the councillors of Crompton Ward in Bolton, Bolton Green Umbrella, Crompton Neighbourhood Management and members of faith groups based on Crompton launched the Kingsley Street community garden project. The students of St Thomas year 5 and 6 leading to...
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Johnson Fold Clean-up
During the weekend of 22nd and 23 April, boltonlive.org hosted a community information event at Johnson Fold UCAN – and also what turned out to be a major litter collection. They were joined by the Johnson Fold Residents Association and the Foxes of the Fold. Local MP Chris Green was also there to offer his...
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Willow Hey Community GROWING PROJECT Open for Business
There was environment themed face painting for the children, arts and crafts and bouncy castles. Steve engaged lots of local children with seed bomb making and there were planting sessions on the day which the children could take home at the end of the session. Lots of local families from the Cawdor/Campbell and flower...
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Environmental event @ Breightmet UCAN centre
[metaslider id=”770″] Firstly, a big thank you to Lisa Forrest for inviting me to the Breightmet UCAN centre for their environmental event today, much respect! My work at the centre today was all about running a small scale gardening workshop in the backyard of the UCAN centre as part of their wider annual environmental event....
Get Growing Greenroyd
[metaslider id=”561″] Arrived at Greenroyd Avenue in Breightmet just before nine o’clock today and immediately set about organizing and filling seed trays and potting on fruit bushes which will eventually go in peoples gardens should they take up our offer of growing their own food.Time is getting on now with the gardening calender so seed...