A number of community organisations have been awarded funding to help make West Kirby, Hoylake and Meols greener.
The aim of the Community Green Grants Programme, funded through the Liverpool City Region UK Shared Prosperity Fund, is to help local groups create more biodiverse environments, provide health and wellbeing benefits and support community action on climate change through volunteering opportunities, as well as improving access to healthy food and strengthening communities by bringing people together.
The Friends of Ashton Park have secured £5,000 for maintenance, litter picks, planting flower beds, cleaning and painting furniture.
The Friends of Sandlea Gardens have been given £1,000 for the planting of bulbs and plants to provide seasonal interest and colour throughout the year.
St Luke’s Methodist Church in Hoylake have won £1,200 to buy equipment for children and families attending St Luke’s Forest Church so they can maintain the growing and green space.
Hoylake Willows have secured £540 to develop a rewilding area and wildlife garden in Sandringham Field which will provide biodiversity benefits whilst improving the green space for local residents.
The Friends of Roman Road Sandhills in Meols have been given £1,000 to clear the area of fixed sand dunes and wooded dunes of invasive scrub and invasive suckering trees, to be replaced with ecologically beneficial local plants and vegetation.
A total of £90,000 has been awarded to organisations across Wirral.
