Sow the City
Website: http://www.sowthecity.org
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sowthecityuk/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/sowthecity
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Email: [email protected]
Where do they work?: Cheetham, Harpurhey, Higher Blackley, Moston, Ancoats and Beswick, Miles Platting and Newton Heath, Ardwick, Longsight, Moss Side, Fallowfield, Levenshulme, Old Moat, Whalley Range, Withington, City-Wide, Greater Manchester
Telephone: 0161 465 6954
Address: 9 Wilcock Street
Manchester
M16 7DA
Registered charity number: 0
Company number: Sow the City
Other registration number: 6872177
Description: ● Lead for the NHS England Test and Learn Programme – providing 150 people with severe and enduring mental health needs with ecotherapy and horticultural therapy activities.
● Green Spaces Fund delivery providing expertise for GMCA and local groups to develop new green spaces focusing on the most disadvantaged areas of the city.
● Community Learning Fund Green Skills Courses (2022) for unemployed and low wage people in partnership with MCC’s Manchester Adult Education Service.
● Delivery partner for the EU Food Wave programme – empowering young people 18-35 with skills to act on food and climate change.
● Delivery partner for Growing Manchester – Manchester City Council’s community food growing programme. Providing training, technical help and advice for over 140 groups across the city that want to set up food growing projects. The groups are diverse and range from local community groups to specialist support groups and housing associations.
● Rewilding and tree planting projects at Willow Farm (Urmston) and Ashton Upon Mersey School.
● Parks Improvement project in Moss Side - improving biodiversity in parks and encouraging greater use of local green spaces.
● ‘Carbon Supermarket’ public engagement events including at MOSI – raising awareness about food and climate change.
● Healthy Schools programmes in partnership in Salford CVS – providing health and affordable food to school children.
● Delivery partner for the In Our Nature programme - supporting residents and communities in Manchester to act on climate change. We're working with partners in some of the most disadvantaged neighbourhoods in the city to trial positive, practical ways of making it easier for residents and communities to take positive action on climate change.
● Achieve Asset Recovery Service - taking gardening referrals from Greater Manchester Mental Health Trust and providing nature-based activities for people recovering from mental ill health and drug and alcohol addiction.
● NHS funded horticultural therapy and ecotherapy at Prestwich Hospital with people struggling with mental ill health. The green health walk is a marked route for hospital staff, visitors, and patients to enjoy the grounds, and promote the physical and mental benefits of greenspace and exercise.
● Continued investment in the Boiler House to create a centre for making and mending in Moss Side.
● Boiler House Community Repaint project in partnership with GMCA - diverting waste from landfill and providing 5000L per year of the local good quality paint at an affordable cost (only £1 per litre), saving the local community £20,000 compared to if the paint had been bought at a normal retail price. Approx. 300 customers per year, mainly from Moss Side. Saves 5 tonnes CO2 per year. Like much of our work the initiative demonstrates the synergies between cost of living and climate solutions.
● Monthly Repair café - a meeting place open to everyone, where people can bring damaged or broken items (electrical items, clothes, furniture, bikes) and have experts help to fix them for free. Through our Repair Cafes, we estimate that we divert 360kg of Electrical Waste from landfill each year. Our Repair Café enables people to save money, & provides opportunity for volunteering, training, and employment.
● Men’s Shed and Women’s Shed ongoing since 2019 - weekly mental health session takes place in our fully equipped Boiler House woodworking workshop. All materials are provided for free, and the session is run by a qualified woodworker. The class is open to people with emotional and mental health needs.
● Green Spaces Fund delivery providing expertise for GMCA and local groups to develop new green spaces focusing on the most disadvantaged areas of the city.
● Community Learning Fund Green Skills Courses (2022) for unemployed and low wage people in partnership with MCC’s Manchester Adult Education Service.
● Delivery partner for the EU Food Wave programme – empowering young people 18-35 with skills to act on food and climate change.
● Delivery partner for Growing Manchester – Manchester City Council’s community food growing programme. Providing training, technical help and advice for over 140 groups across the city that want to set up food growing projects. The groups are diverse and range from local community groups to specialist support groups and housing associations.
● Rewilding and tree planting projects at Willow Farm (Urmston) and Ashton Upon Mersey School.
● Parks Improvement project in Moss Side - improving biodiversity in parks and encouraging greater use of local green spaces.
● ‘Carbon Supermarket’ public engagement events including at MOSI – raising awareness about food and climate change.
● Healthy Schools programmes in partnership in Salford CVS – providing health and affordable food to school children.
● Delivery partner for the In Our Nature programme - supporting residents and communities in Manchester to act on climate change. We're working with partners in some of the most disadvantaged neighbourhoods in the city to trial positive, practical ways of making it easier for residents and communities to take positive action on climate change.
● Achieve Asset Recovery Service - taking gardening referrals from Greater Manchester Mental Health Trust and providing nature-based activities for people recovering from mental ill health and drug and alcohol addiction.
● NHS funded horticultural therapy and ecotherapy at Prestwich Hospital with people struggling with mental ill health. The green health walk is a marked route for hospital staff, visitors, and patients to enjoy the grounds, and promote the physical and mental benefits of greenspace and exercise.
● Continued investment in the Boiler House to create a centre for making and mending in Moss Side.
● Boiler House Community Repaint project in partnership with GMCA - diverting waste from landfill and providing 5000L per year of the local good quality paint at an affordable cost (only £1 per litre), saving the local community £20,000 compared to if the paint had been bought at a normal retail price. Approx. 300 customers per year, mainly from Moss Side. Saves 5 tonnes CO2 per year. Like much of our work the initiative demonstrates the synergies between cost of living and climate solutions.
● Monthly Repair café - a meeting place open to everyone, where people can bring damaged or broken items (electrical items, clothes, furniture, bikes) and have experts help to fix them for free. Through our Repair Cafes, we estimate that we divert 360kg of Electrical Waste from landfill each year. Our Repair Café enables people to save money, & provides opportunity for volunteering, training, and employment.
● Men’s Shed and Women’s Shed ongoing since 2019 - weekly mental health session takes place in our fully equipped Boiler House woodworking workshop. All materials are provided for free, and the session is run by a qualified woodworker. The class is open to people with emotional and mental health needs.
Services delivered: Workshops, events, funding, consultancy, landscape design, community development
Services are available: Face to face
Services are delivered on: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday