A Portrait of Birkenhead Business - Len Grant exhibition Trees.Work now showing!

@merseyforest planting trees to improve Birkenhead business. We like the photo gallery @FriendsWAGM of the businesses http://t.co/IgAvYoyTX6
— TEP (@TEP_Ltd) November 8, 2014

A new photographic exhibition celebrating the success and diversity of Birkenhead business launches this week at the Williamson Art Gallery and Museums.You're all invited to come and see the photos until November 23rd (closed Monday Tuesday).
How to get there: CH434UE.

here are some pictures.....

Nice photos by @len_grant and @merseyforest at Williamson Art Gallery. Go and have a look. http://t.co/J0Y9xYvxgl http://t.co/5ngZIuxDy4
— Peerless Steve (@PeerlessSteve) October 27, 2014

For more on business success read more @ www.wirralwaters.co.uk/   and wirralchamber.co.uk/ and also /investwirral.com/

See photos of award winning North West companies and see the video below....





 View in full screen mode (click ikon to right)

ben‏@greenstreeter

@kelvbrownsword @TEP_Ltd When it comes to growth 1200 @merseyforest trees #Birkenhead make £6M + GVA to @WirralWaters expanding investments

Summer Festival at Ilchester Park a Success

      Local resident group North Birkenhead Development Trust lead a procession of
      community made art and banners around the park.

     Communities gathered in the park following torrential rain up to midday but a turn
      around in the weather meant that they then  enjoyed 4 hours of uninterrupted
      sunshine to show true community spirit and to enjoy ongoing improvements to their               park through the Veolia Environmental Trust Grant which has seen many new trees 
      planted in the park as well as extensive tarmaced paths being laid.

Children enjoy experiencing play at Ilchester Park

Over the coming weeks local children will be familiarising themselves with the emerging improvements at Ilchester Park. Play sessions over the summer organised by The Mersey Forest and run through

Playout, a local play organisation will focus on interaction and understanding of the value of natural play and valuing your local park.

Improvements to the park will include tree planting, natural play features such as climbing logs, improved pathways and wildflower meadows funded by Veolia Environmental Trust who have supported improvements to the park with a £67000 grant benefitting the people of Wirral.

Playout sessions will be run every Wednesday and Friday (23rd July—20th August) 12—4pm  in the run in to a big celebration event in the park on August the 23^rd from 12-4.Children of all ages are invited to take part in free open access play and craft activities and can bring a picnic.  If it’s raining, sessions will take place at the

St. James Centre nearby.

Local community workers said ‘it’s great to see so many children enjoying the improved park space and appreciating the value of natural play in a green setting, amongst all the new park trees’

Here an avenue of birches marks the site of the entrance path soon to be laid into the park.

Listen to the Zone

 The Mersey Forest worked with FACT &       Close and Remote to bring people to and  discover Bidston Moss - The Zone

 See how people interacted !

   Look Listen Learn -how has this space            affected you?  

The Zone

In this space near you!

  Listen to The Zone

The Mersey Forest would like to thank Simon Poulter and Sophie Mellor of  Close and Remote and Edwin Pink of FACT in bringing this production to Bidston Moss and the people of the Wirral and Merseyside! 

               

                   More info on The Zone

       Take a visit download The Zone Map 

“I’d never even heard of it (Bidston Moss) but my friend says we should come back and explore it 'cos it just seems so vast.”

“The Zone Project was really good, it looked at Bidston Moss in a slightly different way, not just as your bog standard nature reserve. It was about exploring what this site had been used for previously and odd artifact that had been left behind that were just a bit interesting.”

See how people feel about Bidston Moss in the context of the intervention

Find out about the Green Streets Programme

Watch the short version of our film about the programme

  

                                            click box in right hand bottom corner to go full screen!!


                                 Longer version here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYF9SnSB50o

The Mersey Forest to deliver 12km of greened streets in Wirral by 2015

Read all about the tree planting in the Wirral as part of the Local Sustainable Transport Fund.Part funded by the Department of Tranport. Read about the aspirations for an improved Wirral Waters and the green infrastructure around it in our Wirral case study and find out where else The Mersey Forest is planning on planting trees across Merseyside as part of the programme. http://www.merseyforest.org.uk/green_streets_case_study.pdf

The juction of Brassey Street and Laird Street

before planting

The same location after planting making the area more attractive for walking and cycling

Ilchester Park to get Investment in Access, Play and Green Infrastructure

A project to transform Illchester Park in the Wirral into a vibrant and attractive greenspace has been given a funding boost from The Veolia Environmental Trust. Ilchester Park in Birkenhead has been awarded the Community Forest Trust a grant of £67,055 through the Landfill Communities Fund towards developing the park. It is anticipated that the project, which will be delivered by 

The Mersey Forest Team, will lay new paths, plant trees and wildflowers to enhance the park's biodiversity, and install an exciting new play area. Access has been a key issue for the park with limited paths connecting from the main roads and railway station nearby.

New trees will give a greater sense of enclosure to the park whilst maintaining the open aspect that members of the community said they liked about the park. This grant will see more than £100,000 being invested in the park through The Mersey Forest since 2012. 

Speaking about the awarding of the funding, The Mersey Forest Team’s Green Streets
Co-ordinator, Ben Greenaway, said: "This is great news for our project. "The grant is very welcome and we look forward to working with the Trust team to ensure our plans become real and benefit both the community of Birkenhead and its wildlife."

Paul Taylor, executive director of The Veolia Environmental Trust, added: "This grant is a great example of how the Trust and the Landfill Communities Fund makes a real difference to all types of communities across the UK.

Further investment is being made throught the Forestry Commission's Setting The Scene For Growth Programme that The Mersey Forest are utlilising which comes from the Department of Business Innvovation and skills.This will see more than 1200 street and green space trees planted across Bidston and Birkenhead by 2015.

Looking across Illchester Park towards Birkenhead North Railway Station from Stanley Rd

As it appears now               

                                   & visualised with landscaping and trees