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Carbon Clever provides a variety of learning and engagement activities for children of primary school age. The project helps the project partners instil local pride, connect children with their landscape and increase awareness and interest in the restoration of the Carbon Landscape. 


A comprehensive programme of activities aimed at a range of audiences. The programme of events inspires members of the community within and around the Carbon Landscape to get involved, linking the restoration elements of the programme to the wider social and cultural heritage of the Carbon Landscape.


Artists work alongside members of the community to tell the story of the formation, exploitation and restoration of the Carbon Landscape with a variety of media in different ways to create materials that can be displayed and exhibited within and outside the Carbon Landscape. 


Development of a virtual platform for the Carbon Landscape Partnership, building educational resources, interpretation material, interactive material and a RoundView Game, which will be supportable across multiple platforms from tablet, phone and laptop. 


Working with partners and land managers to carry out physical landscape improvements to key sites throughout the Carbon Landscape. Providing clear benefits for the conservation and enhancement of the natural heritage of the Carbon landscape alongside opportunities for volunteers and students.


A comprehensive training programme for community members, volunteers, and partners. The training programme aims to instil pride in the local heritage, enabling participants to reconnect with their landscape through 'life-long' learning. 


 

Physical access improvements to the Carbon Landscape improving gateways sites and developing a ‘Carbon Trail’ linking wild spaces in and between the three conurbations. A series of three shorter ‘Loops’ are to be established that will provide interpretative features and tell the Carbon Landscape story. 


An opportunity for local people to learn traditional heritage and conservation management skills whilst undertaking a traineeship in Environment Conservation. Together with volunteers, they work alongside, and gain knowledge from, a variety of experts from across the Partnership. 


This project puts volunteers at its forefront by upskilling, supporting, and enabling local action. It gives local people a voice for their landscape, raising awareness of its importance within the wider community by celebrating its heritage, and developing a sense of pride and place. 


Enabling and empowering volunteer recorders to undertake wildlife monitoring, using structured survey methods. In addition to providing invaluable data, using ‘Citizen Scientists’ provides an important mechanism for involving and immersing people within the Landscape and providing a feeling of ownership of the Landscape. 


Despite the enormous barriers posed by lockdown, we realised we hit a real latent demand for improving the recognition of the unique character of the Flashes from Wigan to Leigh with potential National Nature Reserve status. We engaged the local communities in this journey right from the start.

“I join around 10 webinars per week and yours was sincerely the best. The most engaging, inclusive, organised and fun!”

“I went to Hawkley Hall High School. We used to go cross country running at Scotmans Flash and I had no idea.”


A project to create, improve and connect a corridor of fen habitats and wetlands within the urban area of Wigan and Leigh. Through essential capital works and volunteer engagement, the project will improve the area for wildlife and people to enjoy. 


Healthy Arts is a not-for-profit organisation of Wigan-based arts professionals who deliver workshops and/or projects to enhance the mental and physical wellbeing of individuals and/or for the benefit of the community. Working with groups or individuals, we can create bespoke arts projects and learning on almost any theme to meet the specific needs of service users and groups.


A pilot restoration of the riparian habitat within the Low Hall Local Nature Reserve. The project benefits all kinds of wildlife, increases the quality of the landscape and helps to reconnect people to their landscape through a program of volunteer activities including the Mersey Rivers Trust River Guardian programme. 


To improve pedestrian and cyclist accessibility to Chat Moss and the wider landscape. The wet woodland habitat at New Moss Wood will be restored, new mossland and wetland habitats will be created, and a visitor trail with interpretation will be provided.


Aiming to engage participants with the natural and cultural heritage of the Carbon Landscape through a structured programme of guided walks. Participants receive an outdoor exercise offer and behaviour change support. 


This site is one of the few remaining areas of historic riverside meadows in Warrington. This project re-instates the original riverside path. Site interpretation is being installed and zoned areas created for reduced disturbance to wildlife whilst maintaining public use. 


The restoration of a rare lowland raised bog habitat through rewetting and scrub management. The site forms a significant ecological stepping stone between the larger Risley and Holcroft Mosses. Access enhancements will simultaneously improve access and protect sensitive areas of the site. 


Creation of a habitat corridor to link the isolated components of a Special Area of Conservation by carrying out practical conservation including tree, scrub and vegetation clearance. Safeguarding the Great Crested Newt population with the addition of dams for water retention, increasing the wet grassland area. 


The RoundView is a tool to navigate towards a sustainable future. Facilitating multi-stakeholder dialogues, gathering ideas, inspiration and messages generated during these dialogues. It will inspire new ways to understand the ‘Big Heritage’ of the Carbon Landscape and possible futures for this post-industrial area. 


Through supporting community groups to conserve and enhance their local environment, the Sense of Place Project instils pride and engenders community ownership in the Carbon Landscape. 


C4FlashesVisitorExperience.pdf (carbonlandscape.org.uk)

Working with local schools and the community, the Three Sisters Access for All Gateway Project has transformed a local nature reserve into an interactive, educational site. We have added interpretation to tell the story of the Carbon Landscape and interesting and fun activities for the whole family to enjoy!


Our cycling club was formed in September 2013. We are a group of like-minded cyclists who enjoy the great outdoors, each other’s company, a laugh and a joke. Our group is made up of both genders, mixed physical ability and a variety of ages, (we do limit this to 16 plus though, the younger ones are much too quick for us).


A highly innovative wetland creation and rotation programme. This project created several new habitats—including two new wetland lagoons, which will operate at one of the different stages of the lifecycle of a wetland, thus creating a site rich in habitat diversity, including scrub, willow, reed-beds and open water.