Sustainability Projects
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- Bearing Fruit - community orchard
- Creating a Climate for Change
- Environmental Education
- Green Away Days
- Recycling
- York Rotters
The Friends of St Nicholas Fields run projects and services which enable people to move towards a sustainable future. Our recycling team runs a zero emissions kerbside service using an electric vehicle and load-bearing tricycles. York Rotters, a partnership project with the City of York Council, will help you start composting your waste with free advice. Green Away Days include team-building activities, lunch and advice on how to "green up". They are fun days out tailored to the needs of your workplace. For schools we offer environmental education sessions across the curriculum. Running Wild is an outdoor club for 8-18 year olds, run by Yorkshire Wildlife Trust at the Environment Centre. A new project for 2010 was a series of free workshops called Creating a Climate for Change
aimed at voluntary and community organisations, and social enterprises. Funding for the project was awarded to North Yorkshire County Council by the Yorkshire and Humber Improvement & Efficiency Partnership.
We always welcome help and support for our projects - please let us know if you would like to get involved.
Bearing Fruit - St Nicks Community Orchard project
Bearing Fruit is a new project all about growth. Growth in confidence, teamwork, skills and of course… fruit!
This year and next, our Ecominds grant will enable the establishment
of a community orchard. This will be part of a Local Nature Reserve that
is being developed on a site which was was once York’s landfill
site. It will let volunteers with experience of mental health distress
and volunteers from the wider community come together, have fun, learn,
laugh, and make the most of being out in and improving a much valued
green space.
In time, our project will also provide an abundance of free local fruit, not to mention the benefits of greater biodiversity.
There will be opportunities for project involvement at different
levels: from one-off workdays to orchard planning and preparation,
project documentation and promotional activity, through involvement in
the Core Group. Educational opportunities will be tailor-made to
individuals taking part and will include recognition of both
horticultural and life skills elements.
Bearing Fruit has been funded by Ecominds,
a £7.5million funding scheme run by Mind on behalf of the BIG Lottery
Fund. Ecominds involves people with direct experience of mental distress
in environmental projects that improve their mental and physical
health, and local communities.
Bearing Fruit is a partnership between Friends of St Nicholas Fields and the Community Recovery Team.
Please see our Events page for the orchard work days and join in!
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Creating a Climate for Change Toolkit
This toolkit has been developed as part of the Creating A Climate For Change Programme by Friends of St Nicholas Fields and Creating Space For You. It aims to help voluntary and community organisations and social enterprises in York & North Yorkshire to work towards a sustainable and resilient future. We will be developing the toolkit further so do come back.
Contents - please click on each title to open/ download a PDF document:
For more information contact John Brierley: john[at]stnicksfields.org.uk or call 01904 427641
Creating a Climate for Change was a partnership project between Friends of St Nicholas Fields and Creating Space for You. Funding for the project was awarded to North Yorkshire County Council by the Yorkshire and Humber Improvement & Efficiency Partnership.
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