Community action/North West England

The aim of this page is to recognise, celebrate and encourage the self-empowerment of community agency networks (CANs) and community groups' activism for climate, environment and many other sustainability topics across North West England.

• Ashton Hayes Going Carbon Neutral aiming to become England's first carbon neutral village
• Cumbria Action for Sustainability, Sustainability groups in Cumbria on cafs.org.uk
• Green Chester, campaign from the University of Chester
• Low Carbon Lymm
• Macc2020, aiming to make Macclesfield sustainable by the year 2020
• Transition Chester
• Transition Town West Kirby
• Transition Wilmslow
• Wirral Environmental Network

Supporting community business in the North West, powertochange.org.uk, added 10:51, 12 November 2021 (UTC)

• Growing Well, mental health intervention charity, Cumbria attended by beneficiaries from across Cumbria and North Lancashire, added 15:11, 16 October 2024 (UTC)
• Farmers Markets in Cheshire, visitcheshire.com
• FarmStart, the UK's very first farm incubator initiative!
• Food4Macc voluntary group that aims to have more food produced locally in the Macclesfield area, to keep food prices down as transport costs rise
• Incredible Edible Rossendale on facebook.com

Of the nine regions of England, the North West has the fourth-highest GVA per capita—the highest outside southern England. Despite this the region has above average multiple deprivation with wealth heavily concentrated on very affluent areas like rural Cheshire, rural Lancashire, and south Cumbria. As measured by the Indices of deprivation 2007, the region has many more Lower Layer Super Output Areas in the 20% most deprived districts than the 20% least deprived council districts.[28] Only North East England shows more indicators of deprivation than the North West, but the number of affluent areas in the North West is very similar to Yorkshire and the Humber.

The most deprived local authority areas in the region (based on specific wards within those borough areas) are, in descending order—Liverpool, Manchester, Knowsley, Blackpool, Salford, Blackburn with Darwen, Burnley, Rochdale, Barrow-in-Furness, Halton, Hyndburn, Oldham, Pendle, St Helens, Preston, Bolton, Tameside, Wirral, Wigan, Copeland, Sefton, and Rossendale.

In 2007 when Cheshire still had district councils, the least deprived council districts in the region by council district, in descending order, were—Congleton, Ribble Valley, Macclesfield, and South Lakeland.[29] These areas have Conservative MPs, except South Lakeland has a Lib Dem and Labour MPs. At county level, before it was split into two, Cheshire was the least deprived, followed by Trafford, and by Warrington and Stockport.

In March 2011, the overall unemployment claimant count was 4.2% for the region. Inside the region the highest was Liverpool with 6.8%, followed by Knowsley on 6.3%, Halton with 5.5% and Rochdale with 5.1%. The lowest claimant count is in Eden (Cumbria) and Ribble Valley (Lancashire) each with 1.3%, followed by South Lakeland with 1.4%. ^W

• A Field of Flax, community growing project inviting people in Bootle to grow, nurture, process, spin and weave a field of flax, from flower to linen thread. added 10:41, 14 January 2022 (UTC)
• Rule of Threes, initiating art projects for local neighbourhoods, added 09:19, 15 October 2021 (UTC)

• Climate Emergency Commission, Warrington, warrington.gov.uk, added 14:42, 29 September 2022 (UTC)
• Climate Action Chester & District on twitter.com, added 16:46, 23 August 2021 (UTC)
• Climate Action Preston, Friends of the Earth Action group, added 15:12, 15 July 2021 (UTC)
• Cool Wirral, campaign aimed at encouraging local climate-related action in support of the climate change strategy for Wirral.
• South Lakes Action on Climate Change Towards Transition

The Hub, Stockton, Sustrans' project delivering free information, advice, resources and events to help people in Stockton walk and cycle for more of their everyday journeys

In December 2011, the village road network was reconstructed at the intersection of Chester Road/Park Lane and London Road, creating the first "double roundel" for a high traffic intersection. Similar to a roundabout, the new intersection reduces the four-lane approaches to two lanes, allowing pedestrians to cross quickly, and safely allowing the elimination of traffic signals. Multiple coloured and textured cobbles separate traffic from pedestrians areas, however it functions as a shared space, allowing pedestrians to cross anywhere that feels safe. According to the city, businesses have seen increased foot traffic, and congestion has been considerably lessened. The total cost was 4 million pounds, comparable to traditional road repairs which were needed. ^W

• Chester Supertrees, Chester's biodiversity project

• Mersey Rivers Trust, added 14:27, 28 April 2021 (UTC)

• The Mersey Forest

Past events

• May 23, 2017, Cycle Maps for Chester
• May 3 - 4, 2014, Lymm Green Trail, meet Lymm householders and see energy efficiency first hand
• June 21, 2014, Chester Green Day
• September 13, 2014, Wirral Earth Fest 2014 on facebook

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