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Celebratory event held to recognise environmental achievements

29 June 2023

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In mid-June, partners from the Green Recovery programme joined together in Liverpool at an event to celebrate the programme's achievements.

More From Trees, our Green Recovery Challenge funded project, has been running since December 2021 and includes a wide range of partners who are focused on boosting nature recovery. The project has been active across Merseyside and Cheshire and aims to enhance biodiversity, connect people to nature, reduce flooding, and improve the overall health of the region's environment.
 
This celebratory event in Liverpool was a great opportunity to come together in person to collectively share all the inspiring work, approaches, challenges, and achievements of the project.
 
Councillor Barbara Murray, vice chair of The Mersey Forest Steering Group and Councillor at Liverpool City Council opened the event, welcoming the huge range of partners who made this project such a success.

A speakers' showcase took place in the afternoon, with presentations from experts on Connecting Communities to Nature, Natural Flood Management, Making Space for Nature in Liverpool, and more.
 
An afternoon visit to the community garden at St. Michaels Church provided an opportunity to see an example of how the project has been used to support green initiatives in Liverpool. Green Recovery funds enabled a number of 'Natural Health Service' activities to continue, including the gardening sessions run by Faiths4Change which have been a great success.
 
35 delegates attended the event – with 90% of respondents to a feedback survey rating the event as 'excellent' or 'good'. In the feedback, the event was described as an "interesting event that helped pull together the different aspects of the project" and "an enjoyable day, and the perfect chance to meet all those involved."

Overall, the feedback was very positive, and the event reinforced that there's a real momentum behind efforts to continue to support the range of activities facilitated over the last 15 months.  
 
"More from Trees" is led by The Mersey Forest in partnership with Liverpool City Council, NHS Cheshire and Merseyside, Liverpool John Moores University, Cheshire Wildlife Trust, and the PATT Foundation.
 
This project is funded by the Government's Green Recovery Challenge Fund, which is being delivered by The National Lottery Heritage Fund in partnership with Natural England, the Environment Agency and Forestry Commission.




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