Community Ambassadors
- AFC Liverpool
- Bulky Bob's
- Elixir Foundations CIC
- Hope Valley Community Primary
- Katie Boocock
- KIND
- Landlife
- Liverbirds 'R' Go
- Mersey Basin Campaign
- Plus Dane Group
- Ride Planet Earth
- Rotters Community Composting
- Toxteth TV
- Train 2000
AFC Liverpool
We are a non league football club that was set up in 2008 to provide an all inclusive, affordable, grassroots, alternative to people who would like to watch/play football; however have been disenfranchised for various reasons but mainly cost. To this end we presently have 14 teams covering all ages: boys, girls, ladies and men.
An example of our environmental good practice is the use of a coach as transport for players and supporters to travel to away games of the Mens First Team rather than numerous cars travelling as far North as Barrow and as far South as Stoke.
We are currently researching and exploring the building of a new stadium within Liverpool and wish to encompass all the best practice environmental ideas as available; and affordable as possible.
As a local football club that has built up its own community we believe that we have a responsibility to lead by example in promoting the Green Agenda.
Bulky Bob's
Bulky Bob’s provides collection, reuse and recycling services for bulky household waste i.e. furniture and household appliances. Working in partnership with local authorities and commercial customers, Bulky Bob’s offers a professional collection service and an innovative reuse and recycling service.
Bulky Bob’s’ environmental management system is certified to BS8555 and is working towards achieving ISO14001 accreditation. As a waste management business we reuse and recycle as much of the waste we collect as possible through a number of innovative operations. We have a track record of reducing our carbon footprint and have ambitious plans to further reduce emissions using new technologies.
Bulky Bob’s has become one of the best known brands in Liverpool – our fleet of purple vehicles and the Bulky Bob’s name are synonymous with recycling, environmental issues, excellent customer service and doing good things for the people of Liverpool, hence it is a natural step for Bulky Bob’s to be a Green Ambassador for Liverpool.
Elixir Foundations CIC
Elixir Foundations CIC is part of the Elixir Group of social enterprises that includes Elixir Environments Limited and Recycle & Grow North Limited. We recycle PVC plastics and green waste that would normally go to landfill. We have had start-up support from Liverpool Vision & Step Clever.
We would be extremely proud to be Green Ambassadors and being part of a national work we would promote related issues wherever possible.
Katie Boocock
My name is Katie Boocock, and I have just graduated LJMU with an Environmental Science degree. I have lived in Allerton all my life and my granddad started teaching me about the beauty of nature from an early age: (I guess you wouldn’t think that under the bridge in Garston was a good place for an environmentalist, but it happened).
I want to become someone that promotes sustainability to young females in Liverpool educating them ways in which they can ‘go green’ without affecting their usual teenage struggles. Unfortunately environmentalism is somewhat boring to teenagers as it is just thrown into their academic geography classes I what to make it fun and fashionable to be green in this city through creative arts, and hopefully the trend may catch on.
Hope Valley Community Primary School
Hope Valley Community Primary are working towards achieving eco-status under the Government's Eco-Schools Programme. We are placing the children at the heart of our environmental plans in a number of exciting ways:
We have a pupil led eco-group which meets regularly to discuss eco-issues and make things happen.
Pupils have conducted a green audit and have delivered assemblies to encourage their peers to 'go green'.
We have worked with the BBC to make a film about how environmentally friendly we are. Our eco-group not only starred in the film but also operated the cameras and became sound engineers too!
We have arranged poster competitions to raise awareness of recycling and organised model making workshops.
We have a newly established eco-garden which the children designed. Their ideas were submitted to a 'dragons' den' style panel who have helped to turn their ideas into reality.
KIND
KIND is a children’s charity that develops new and imaginative ways to help them overcome disadvantage and realise their potential. We have put ourselves forward as a Green Ambassador for the environmental education work that we do at our purpose built eco-friendly SEED Centre:
- Giving local disadvantaged children, young people and their families access to environmental education in cutting-edge eco facilities;
- SEED Centre constructed using recycled materials from sustainable sources;
- Photo electric cells and solar panels providing electricity;
- Thermal insulation & low energy consumption lighting systems ;
- Heat pumps to draw off excess heat to warm water;
- A design that maximises natural lighting, with sunlight warming the interior walls for thermal storage and release;
- Rainwater collection system for re-use in the centre and garden;
- Mini wind turbine;
- On-site recycling and composting facilities;
- On-site kitchen garden allotment, growing vegetables for use in teaching on healthy eating and how to ‘grow your own’ organic vegetables;
- Year-round education programme that develops an enhanced awareness of environment issues and practical knowledge and experience of how children can make a difference in their everyday lives;
- A special schools programme for those with more than a 50% uptake of free school meals;
- Adult and family learning courses;
- Over 9000 places filled by local children who have been through our environmental teaching programme since the SEED Centre opened in January 2008.
Liverbirds 'R' Go
In 2008, Liverbirds “R” Go won Liverpool’s Lord Mayor’s Parade. In 2009 we were nominated as “Green Ambassadors” for the City by the City Council. We added value to this year Lord Mayor’s Pageant “Year of the Environment”.
We have formed a partnership with LiverWorld Community Sports organisation and now we are shortly opening a community social enterprise at number 79 Holt Road Kensington, incorporating recycling of cookers, fridges, mobile phones, other household items.
The Liverbird icons are beacons to a Better future, Better City; what better icons for a “Green City”? .
Mersey Basin Campaign
The Mersey Basin Campaign is a 25-year government backed partnership, which brings together the local authorities, businesses, voluntary organisations and government agencies to deliver water quality improvements and waterside regeneration through the Mersey Basin river system.
Despite once being the dirtiest river estuary in Europe, the Mersey is cleaner now than at any time since the industrial revolution. Wildlife such as salmon, seals and kingfishers have returned and people up and down the river now value the river for recreation and enjoyment. The cleaned up Mersey is bringing development and jobs, with areas such as Liverpool Pier Head and Salford Quays enjoying a development boom.
The Campaign was a pioneer in partnership working and its success could not have been achieved without a strong and effective partnership. The Campaign’s key partners include United Utilities, the Environment Agency and the Northwest Regional Development Agency, amongst a very wide range of others.
The Campaign will close in spring 2010 after 25 highly successful years.
Plus Dane Group
As a neighbourhood investor, Plus Dane Group has a fundamental commitment to green homes, green neighbourhoods and green enterprise.
A treble finalist at the prestigious 2009 Sustainable Housing Awards, the group uses a powerful combination of cutting-edge technology, genuine resident involvement, shared learning and design quality to drive sustainability.
Aiming to build a further 1,000 affordable green homes over the next three years, the group is a lead partner in Innovation Chain NW, which is leading the way on the government’s Code for Sustainable Homes agenda.
The group is a member of the National Housing Federation Advisory Panel on Environmental Issues, signatory to the North West Climate Change Charter, represented at CECODHAS (The European Liaison Committee for Social Housing) and works with BRE (Building Research Establishment).
The group is proud to be a Green Ambassador and to support Liverpool’s Year of the Environment.
Ride Planet Earth
Ride Planet Earth is encouraging action to prevent dangerous climate change. The project culminates on 6th December 2009, the day before the Climate Change negotiations begin in Copenhagen, with a series of simultaneous cycling events in cities, towns, and dirt tracks around the globe. The message we are sending is that ordinary people can and will take action to stop climate change so our governments must do the same.
Start Cycle Change: Stop Climate Change
Ride Planet Earth began as a journey from Brisbane to Copenhagen by bicycle, to highlight the current impacts of climate change on the planet's most vulnerable communities. The Cycle Change Convoy has now reached Georgia and over the next 4 months will cross Europe to Denmark.
Please visit www.rideplanetearth.org for all the details on the project.
At present the 6th Dec will see events occurring in Australia, Asia, Africa, Europe and North America. But to make a stronger statement we need more. If anyone feels they can help set up any sıze of event on this date please contact me at richardkimberley8@hotmail.com.
Rotters Community Composting
We are a community composting organisation dedicated to encouraging people to recycle their kitchen and garden waste. Rotters began with a pilot programme in the Highbank Drive estate in Garston and has since expanded to a number of other communities, schools and businesses within Liverpool.
Since August 2008, we have offered collection of organic waste to all primary schools in South Liverpool.
We carry out educational awareness work in primary schools in South Liverpool.
In August 2008, we started a pilot project funded by MWDA and Liverpool Chamber of Commerce and Industry to collect catering waste from businesses in Speke-Garston and areas on the outskirts of the city centre.
In March 2009 we launched an organic growing project called ‘Fork to Fork’ to demonstrate the link between recycling/composting, growing organic fruit and vegetables and healthy eating.
Toxteth TV
Toxteth TV is a community and educational media facility in the heart of Liverpool 8. Our facilities include television studio, training rooms, café, offices, and postproduction facilities. We have worked on community media and arts projects with children, young people, older people, community organisations, public sector organisations and schools.
Toxteth TV was designed and built from scratch to reduce energy bills, thereby improving economic viability. We strive to achieve environmental good practice. For example, we have been recycling paper, cardboard and glass for the last six years in line with our Environmental Policy. We have also recycled office furniture, computers and monitors, wooden palates, building materials, in fact anything that could be recycled has been.
In the last two years we have installed two living rooves on two of the four buildings that we own and manage.
The first one was installed on the Toxteth TV studio roof in April 2007. It is a Green Roof and has at least four different types of Sedums (drought resistant plants). The plants sit on recycled crushed brick and recycled foam. Not only does this roof benefit local biodiversity, it also benefits the building in that it prolongs the life of the roof by up to twenty years. It also gives insulation during the winter, both providing an ambient temperature during the summer months, and lessening the carbon footprint of the building. As it absorbs rainwater, there is far less water run off from the roof and therefore greater capacity in local drains.
With funding from the SITA Trust (Enriching Nature Program), we were also been able to install a Brown Roof at John Archer Hall. A Brown Roof is also a “living roof” but different to a green roof in that most of the plants and insect life are left to their own devices to colonise the roof with just a little input from ourselves. All we did was add some wildflower seeds and a very small number of natural aquatic plants. The living roof at John Archer Hall has full disabled access and will be used by other agencies such as Natural England, Mersey Forests and the North Merseyside Biodiversity Action Agency to educate and promote living roofs in the North West.
Toxteth TV, with its charity arm "Splendid Things", has also organised a community allotment for the benefit of the local residents at the John Archer Hall site. Residents will learn to grow their own produce, and how different herbs can be used for cooking and therapeutic benefits.
Landlife
Landlife takes action for a better environment by creating new opportunities for wildlfe and encouraging people to enjoy them.
We founded the National Wildflower Centre in Knowsley to promote new wildflower landscapes and inspire people through nature.
We developed the first large scale photovoltaics project in the Norhwest; we recycle all water and undertake composting facilities onsite, as well extensive biodiversity areas for native wildflowers and wildlife.
We achieved Excellence in Sustainable Tourism award in the Northwest and a Best Contribution to the Environment from Knowsley Enterprise Forum, plus a national award for health environment and humanity.
In 2009 we created over 7 hectares of new Knowsley wildflower areas in a health & wellbeing programme, and extensive wildflowers in Anfield on recyled building wastes.
The National Wildflower Centre visitors and users number over 30,000 people annually.
We work with a wide range of business and community partners, providing a Green Conference resource, healthy food cafe and seasonal environment events programme. We want to champion Liverpool's natural assets and inspire more communities and business organisations to harness the benefits of wildflowers for economic advantage and civic confidance.
Train 2000
Train 2000 Ltd is a Social Enterprise who offer FREE business advice and training to women on Merseyside and Greater Manchester to enable them to set up their own business.
Our company work hard to protect the environment reflected in our environmental policy, outlining our commitment to recycling, conserving energy, encouraging use of public transport where possible and choosing products and service providers that show an equal commitment to preserving the environment.
Train 2000 has more recently successfully secured funding to build a Women’s International Centre for Economic Development (WICED) in Liverpool. Included in the bid was an emphasis on ensuring this new development was energy efficient and kept its impact on the environment minimal. This has been key discussion during the planning stages. The project aims to have the building completed by the end of 2010.
As part of our business support we also ensure that we advise all of our new businesses of their environmental responsibilities, and we feel being a Green Ambassador would help us to reinforce that ethos.
If you are an individual or community group and would like to be considered as a Green Ambassador email ourcityourplanet@liverpool.gov.uk for more information.
