Grimple's Green Grants 2010 Awards

GreenFerry Solar Challenge Project

This project aims to reduce annual carbon emissions in the area by 60 tonnes by increasing the amount of solar panels installed in the town’s homes. Their funding efforts will be used to help bulk buy the equipment and supply it to homes cheaper, as well as educate on the benefits of using it.

Gardenshare Stirling

Gardenshare Stirling aims to match people who want to grow vegetables but who don't have access to a garden with people who have grounds but are unable to use them and are willing to share them with others.

Whitecroft and Parkend Allotment

The Forest of Dean Allotments Association was set up to acquire land across the area to offer new allotment space to the local community. Members clear unused ground in order to create the new allotments ready for planting. Our funding helped secure two new allotment sites at Whitecroft and Parkend in Gloucestershire.

Basil Street Community Allotments

This project used our funding to help create a third of an acre communal food growing site in Waterside Colne, one of the most deprived wards in the UK. Volunteers have helped create and manage the site and local residents and schools are able to grow fruit and vegetables without the pressure of running their own plots.

Rotherham in Root - Conference and Community Fruit Planting

Funding for this project allowed the Voluntary Action Rotherham to host a community conference to promote local food growing activities and also to plant a community space with fruit trees. The conference brought together people from voluntary and community groups and also public sector organisations to highlight ways to encourage local people to get involved in growing some of their own food.

Bryngwyn Baby Bio Project

Bryngwyn Primary School applied for a grant to continue their efforts at transforming their concrete grounds into an environmental haven of food and wildlife. Projects planned for the new gardens include a wildlife pond, animal homes including bird and bat boxes and plant and vegetable patches.

Abergavenny Car Share Scheme

Abergavenny Climate Action group have used their Green Grant to set up a new car sharing scheme for the area. The grant has been used to set up a website which people can use to record their journeys and then be matched with others to share with to reduce the traffic in the town. Marketing of the project was also supported to ensure the message was widely spread in the community.

Recycle PC

This project collects unwanted computers and redundant IT equipment, refurbishes them and donates them to local charities, community groups and elderly and disabled clients. To date an estimated 35 tonnes of computer equipment has been stopped from going to landfill thanks to the project.

Young Church Garden

Young Church used their Green Grant to regenerate a neglected roof garden on top of a health centre at the side of their church which was formally created by two doctors as a medicinal garden. As part of regenerating the garden the project teaches local children about recycling, protecting wildlife and growing plants as well as various arts related topics.

Community Juice Press

Transition Wokingham are a local group who used their Green Grant to plant a community orchard, purchase apple harvesting equipment, a mobile apple press and bottling equipment. In the area there are hundreds of unpicked apple trees, left to rot due to a lack of interest and equipment. The group invited volunteers and youngsters to harvest and press the apples to offer food and drinks to the community.

St George's Park Urban Wildlife Meadow

St Georges Park is a public park in Kidderminster. Locals felt the park was run down and needed development. They set up the Friends of St George’s Park group. Since forming they have involved the community in litter picks, planting and installing bird boxes around the park. This project have put their Green Grant to good use.

St Paulinus School Butterfly Garden

St Paulinus School applied for a Green Grant to convert a disused area of land in the grounds to build a butterfly garden for the pupils to study and maintain. Lesson plans from the science department have been integrated into the new garden to learn about different plants which attract the butterflies and the pupils even monitor wildlife they attract via webcam!

Get Your Butts out

Netherfield Eco Action Team are a voluntary group who run a variety of different free or reduced cost projects for residents of Netherfield near Nottingham to reduce the environmental impact of the community. The group applied for a Green Grant to supply 150 households with free water butts encouraging residents to grow their own vegetables and saving water.

Bats of Delph Woods

Voluntary group Upton Bat Project are passionate about protecting bats in urban areas, helping to identify species and collect research about the bat population to help conserve them. A Green Grant was provided to obtain and install 50 new bat boxes in the Delph Woods, an urban woodland in Poole which will hopefully help attract the bats and help preserve the species.

Ringed Plover Project

The Tees Valley Wildlife Trust applied for a Green Grant to help protect the little known Ringed Plover bird which is under threat across the entire country. The birds nest on gravel close to water, and the project are working on creating a new nature reserve for both the local community to visit, but also to provide a maintained site for the birds.

Motov8 ReCYCLE

Motov8 help improve the lives of young people who are denied opportunities for training to prepare them for work. They have created an innovative scheme that trains the youngsters to refurbish unwanted bicycles, stopping them from reaching landfill and offering them for resale/loan. The Green Grant allowed them to expand the project and allow more young people to take part.

Pride of Place polytunnel

This is an amazing project in conjunction with the Pride of Place environmental group and the local primary school. The project used their Green Grant to build a polytunnel which the children have used to grow plants which were then transplanted to the local park and their own vegetables. The group also grew wildflower plants in the tunnel and then placed them all around the town for the community to enjoy.

Gartly Wildlife Garden

Gartly School in Aberdeenshire applied for a Green Grant to turn an unusable, boggy area of their grounds into an outdoor classroom and wildlife garden, installing a new pond, decking and seating area. Actual classes will be held outdoors with an environmental theme and the garden will naturally attract all kinds of wildlife for the children to learn about..