Press Release

RED ROSE FOREST PHOTO OPPORTUNITIES

Event: Community Garden opening at Coverdale Church, Ardwick including refreshments.

Date/Time: Wednesday, February 9, 2.30pm.

Meet: Coverdale Church, Coverdale Crescent, Ardwick, Manchester.
Contact: Chris Johnstone at Red Rose Forest on 0161 872 1660.

Ardwick will be the centre of a terrific green makeover this Wednesday, when Red Rose Forest, Greater Manchester’s Community Forest, team up with Coverdale Community Church to celebrate the opening of a public Peace Garden.
Red Rose Forest will be supervising residents and members of the Coverdale Community Church while they plant about 10 ornamental trees to put the final touches to the garden.
The day is sure to be a fantastic success as residents their garden and celebrate with a party.

Red Rose Forest’s, Green Streets Team, experts in street planting events, have helped the Church choose suitable ornamental species which will turn the garden into an oasis of calm.
Coverdale Church, with the guidance of Red Rose Forest, managed to secure funding for this project from Manchester City Council’s CAS:H grant scheme.

Red Rose Forest’s, Sarah Macleod, said: “It’s been great to see how the community has united for such a worthwhile project. This garden will provide a peaceful space for people to take a breather from the fast pace of modern life.
“And not only that, the new greenery will also provide an important urban haven for wildlife such as birds and butterflies.”

For more information about the Green Streets project, please contact Chris Johnstone at Red Rose Forest on 0161 872 1660/ chris@redroseforest.co.uk

Notes to the Editor

Red Rose Forest was created in 1992 and is an environmental regeneration initiative in Greater Manchester. It is one of 12 Community Forests being developed in England. Over 40 years we will plant over 25 million trees, across 292 square miles of the area, as the framework for a programme of regeneration and renewal that will make Greater Manchester a greener more satisfying place to live. At the heart of our strategy is the involvement of people and businesses in the social, economic and environmental regeneration of the area through land development for the enjoyment of communities.
Red Rose Forest is a partnership of the Countryside Agency, the Forestry Commission and six Greater Manchester authorities.

Green Streets is a community urban greening project, which works in the Cities of Manchester and Salford and Trafford MBC. Green Streets’ aim is not simply to parachute in and made good an escape. Instead, we encourage residents to take an active role in every stage of the project from consultation and funding to delivery and aftercare. By engaging residents in as many aspects of the greening projects as possible we are not only encouraging communities to take ownership for the trees and plants, we are also helping to rebuild community spirit through greater social interaction and generating a renewed sense of pride in where people live.
Green Streets has been active in Manchester and Trafford since December 2001 and due to its superb success rate has just expanded into Salford. In the three years we have been operating we have completed over 40 projects.

ENDS