Wythenshawe, Manchester
- Hosted by: Sow the City
- Get in touch by contacting Emily Corner, Operations Manager
Sow the City is an award-winning social enterprise based in Manchester, which works with other organisations like the NHS to green urban spaces across the North West. Its project is focused on nurturing connections within communities, as well as between people and nature.
About the project
This Postcode Gardener project is all about connecting a community. Wythenshawe is on the outskirts of Manchester, with few public transport links, limited local services and a lack of community centres. So, whether it’s young people with additional learning needs, church groups, schools, mums and babies, or community groups supporting homeless people, the team are working to bring together lots of different types of people.
The project is creating community growing spaces, supporting locals to manage, maintain and enjoy green areas. Not only is this improving biodiversity, but it’s also growing links between different parts of the community. The Wythenshawe project is driving social connections, helping previously disconnected groups get in touch with each other and spot new opportunities for collaboration.
Sow the City is also giving people guidance on different greening activities. For example, it's shown one group how to create a small wildflower meadow on a patch of grass that was previously kept short. These kinds of activities will help them grow and measure biodiversity in the area.
Protecting the natural world has been at the heart of The Co-operative Bank’s unique, customer-led Ethical Policy for over 30 years, driven by their customers’ concerns for biodiversity and the environment.
Postcode Gardeners are bringing communities together to help bring nature back. Through our partnership with The Co-operative Bank, we’re supporting Postcode Gardeners to restore wildlife and greenery in over 1,000 nature-deprived spaces across the country.
