Manchester community resources

This article is an offshoot of Manchester community action focusing on community resources and assets. Resources such as networks, events and community involvement (people and relationships) can be considered as primary resources. Also resources are the activism and physical assets (or what citizens value), such as green spaces and biodiversity, cycle lanes, food initiatives, etc, from the other Manchester community pages.

From Wikipedia:Hulme Community Garden Centre

Hulme Community Garden Centre (HCGC) is a garden and community centre in Hulme, Manchester, England. It was featured in a 2017 episode of the TV show Gardener's World.

From Wikipedia:Hulme Community Garden Centre § Facilities

As well as selling plants, HCGC has a café, a public garden, outdoor cooking spaces, a straw bale classroom and a pond area. HCGC run events throughout the year, from courses on growing vegetables to wellbeing sessions.

• Hulme Community Garden Centre, added 17:28, 23 November 2025 (UTC)
• The Kindling Trust, kindling.org.uk, added 17:37, 11 February 2021 (UTC)
• Abundance Manchester, voluntary project which picks surplus or unwanted fruit from gardens and public trees around South Manchester and distributes it to local groups and communities
• Food Futures
• Hulme Community Garden centre
• Incredible Edible Prestwich and District
• Incredible Edible Salford on facebook
• Manchester Veg People, multi-stakeholder co-operative of local organic growers and buyers who are working together to help develop a new model for the local food supply chain
• Sow the City

David Tennant on Food Banks and The Lighthouse Project, Red Nose Day 2025

Authors: Comic Relief: Red Nose Day, 3.38 mins.

Date: 2025-05-02

Nourish and Flourish

Authors: Greenpeace UK, 2.30 mins.

Date: 2023-12-13

21 Stories of Transition: Greenslate Farm, England.

Authors: TransitionTowns, 4.28 mins.

Date: 2015-11-02

Legislative Theatre: UK

Authors: The People Act: Legislative Theatre, 2.11 mins.

Date: 2024-10-31

“It makes me really proud of Stretford”: The Public Hall in Public Hands

Authors: We're Right Here

Date: 2024-02-29

John Blowes interview 17th Dec 2013

Authors: Frances Bowen, Dec 18, 2013

• Carbon Co-op
• Halton Lune Hydro
• Saddleworth Community Hydro
• St John's Sunshine, Old Trafford
• Bee Sustainable, Bury
• Community Energy GM, helping community organizations come together and install renewable energy
• Moss Community Energy

Past events

• September 12, 2015 - Open Day Saddleworth Community Hydro

• Who owns the City? The privatisation of public land in Manchester, By Greater Manchester Housing Action, May 10, 2021...gmhousingaction.com

Past events

• September 12 - 13, 2015 - Open Eco homes, Carbon Coop

Steady State Manchester, for local prosperity, justice & ecological safety

Resources

The Viable Economy steadystatemanchester

Past events

• May 17, 2017 - Achieving a viable economy – is community business the answer? by Steady State Manchester, eventbrite.com

• Museum of Community Futures, storymaps.arcgis.com. Exhibition showcasing communities in Greater Manchester defying the odds to shape their places and futures. Presented by We’re Right Here and Greater Manchester Live Well. March 12, 2026, added 16:33, 26 March 2026 (UTC)

• The People Act Legislative Theatre, on youtube.com, bringing residents, policymakers and activists together into creative, fun and constructive dialogue, to co-create more equitable and effective policies and laws. Connect with UK (Edinburgh, Newcastle, Gateshead, Manchester and London) and international practitioners, thepeopleact.org, added 16:16, 10 February 2025 (UTC)

Recycle for Greater Manchester

Funding

Make Manchester - the city is embracing civic crowd funding

Authors: Spacehive, 3.32 mins.

Date: 2015-02-12

• #MakeMCR
• Rusholme Soup

Maps

Locations and Facilities in Trafford

Citizens data initiative

DataGM, freeing Greater Manchester's public data

Research

• Greater Manchester Poverty Commission findings published January 2013, calls for special measures which will assist more than 600,000 Greater Manchester residents who are experiencing the effects of extreme poverty. In addition, calls for action to prevent nearly 1.6 million people (nearly half the population of Greater Manchester) sliding in to deeper poverty.

Apps for sustainability

Recycle for Greater Manchester Phone App