Citywide Community Engagement led Biodiversity and Habitat Improvement Projects

Established volunteer work groups led by Environmental Services Community Engagement Team to work with residents to develop local community gardens and food growing spaces on works such as benches (to increase social interaction), local food production, wildflower meadows, trees, and invertebrate (bees) and wildflower bank(s)/features as well as projects that focus on Food Poverty by creating growing spaces – cultivating areas of green space several small scale projects – assisting groups cultivate farm and harvest land for social benefit, during the current national financial crisis. In addition many of these project interventions will incorporate and improve the availability of hedgehog habitats and highways across the city with support from local residents and local resident groups.  

Works across the city with the support of community payback, volunteers and corporate volunteers, ensuring better value for money/funding through inclusion of volunteers for general labour. This approach would improve biodiversity, contribute towards food affordability and improve the environment at a local level working in partnership with the community, whilst making increasing use of green assets to address the climate emergency, food affordability, whilst promoting public support, through works implemented and volunteer engagement, for measures to reduce climate impacts, improve biodiversity and promote social well-being.  

This is being proposed and led by the Community Engagement Team within Streets and Open Spaces and will be supported by the Streets and Open Spaces volunteer scheme and corporate volunteering groups.