Our Greener Spaces, Thriving Places fund was born out of our desire to work with our residents to create green spaces where they can come together and enjoy the benefits of increasing biodiversity, including access to nature, wellbeing, and community connection.
By making small sums of community funding available across our Affordable Housing portfolio, we have been able to encourage resident groups to develop their environmental ideas and create new spaces for themselves to enjoy and nature to thrive.
The fund provides support to initiatives focused on food production, biodiversity, water management and wellbeing – empowering existing groups to improve their surroundings, while encouraging passionate individuals to make new connections.
Some of the projects funded include community gardens that partner with the local nursery, through to homelessness schemes which have created “a sanctuary for our service users” and the proposed duck house that grew into a bug hotel with planters.