A crowdfunding campaign by Novus, designed to help transform Green Grosvenor Park in Salford, has reached its target of £14,859.
Novus, part of LTE group, is a national not-for-profit large scale social enterprise dedicated to working with offenders and ex-offenders to deliver education, training and employability programmes. It is the top-performing provider of its kind in the UK, with a 90% success rate for offender learning courses.
Novus started the campaign in an attempt to vastly improve the park through its Community Payback team, and now the target has been reached, the work can get under way.
David Morgan, North West Enterprise Partnership Lead for Novus, and his team have been working closely with the Friends of Green Grosvenor Park to make it more appealing for locals. Novus committed time and resource to install planters and seating made by Novus learners in custody, and installed by learners in Approved Premises.
The next step was to help to get the park project funded by members of the public, and the crowdfunding efforts have come to a successful conclusion. With the help of Cheshire and Greater Manchester CRC and their Community Payback team, pathways will be installed through the woodland area so people can get up close with nature.
In the woodland there will also be a seating area which children will be encouraged to use as a place for adventure and story-telling.
New picnic benches will be installed along with wooden planters that will have plants for added colour.
There will also be planting of new blossoming trees and all year round bulbs.
David said: “I will work closely now with Salford City Council and the Friends group ensuring the improvements funded are completed to everyone’s satisfaction using Community Payback labour under the supervision of the SCC trainers.
“A big thank you to everyone who supported this innovative project to enable me to partner with community groups and organisations which has the potential to be shared with our other regions.”
