Green
Ways
Greening the neighbourhood
in Radford and Foleshill
What if Coventry neighbourhoods were connected by a network of pocket parks and green spaces with safe, green routes between them for humans and wildlife?
Maybe you remember a greener time, when front gardens were full of plants and trees instead of cars? A time before many of our public green spaces were covered with retail parks, car parks or plastic grass?
We’ve been losing green space across the UK at a rate of knots – this is bad for wildlife, and it’s bad for us. One of the things that we learned during the pandemic was just how valuable green space and access to the natural world is to humans’ physical and mental health.
Coventry’s Citizens’ Assembly addressed this (alongside safety, traffic pollution, loneliness and wellbeing) with their Green Ways recommendation. They called for the creation of a network of safe green routes across Coventry: connecting neighbourhoods and green spaces for the benefit of humans and wildlife. This project aims to make that idea a reality.
Community Lunch
Free art activities.
Free hot food
Saturday 2nd November 2024
Starting at 12 noon
Smartphone Treasure Hunt
Find the hidden markers across local green spaces and win prizes
October Half Term 2024
What if, by greening our gardens, yards, balconies, verges and parks, we could not only make them lovely places to spend time in, but also safe routes for wildlife to travel across the city?
What can you do to help re-green your neighbourhood?
- Grow plants in your garden/yard balcony/street that bring you joy and are good for bees, butterflies and other pollinators.
- Grow herbs for cooking: you can eat them and share them with your neighbours! Join an allotment community if you need more space.
- Value and use your local parks and greenspaces: a good way to meet your neighbours is to join (or form) a ‘friends of the park’ group that might organise litter-picks, dog walks, picnics or family play days there.
- Plant wildflower seeds in your lawn and leave it to grow longer during the summer so you can enjoy both the flowers and the butterflies.
- Adopt the scrappy bit of grass outside your house that no-one seems to own or care for, and plant something there that will make it look a bit nicer, and also benefit pollinating insects.
What if neighbours came together to enjoy and care for their local parks and green spaces?
Supported by Coventry City Council through the West Midlands Combined Authority and HM Governments’s Commonwealth Games Legacy Fund.
