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REACT project summaries
Newleaf (Stoke-on-Trent & Newcastle under Lyme)
The Potteries Woodland Initiative is situated in the Advantage West Midlands North Staffordshire Regeneration Zone of Stoke-on-Trent and Newcastle under Lyme. The principle objective is to transform urban North Staffordshire by presenting a positive environmental profile and promoting an economically attractive area to investors. In addition the project will increase people's involvement with trees and woods, create new woodlands, plant street trees along strategic routes and train people to care for their local woodlands.
East Manchester
East Manchester is undergoing massive physical, environmental and social redesign which is providing an opportunity to raise the profile of community forestry in the overall regeneration process. The REACT project will assist in the implementation of this programme of renewal. Aligned to the New Deal for Communities Delivery Plan the 3 year initiative will focus on campaign work and raising awareness of trees and greenspace as a positive contribution to the local environment.
Merseyside
The aim of this new partnership is to use community forestry as a tool to deliver the Merseyside Health Action Zone objectives. The overall objective of this project will be to improve the quality of life for the people who live in the area, with a focus on community groups with poor health records, by improving access to quality greenspaces. There is also the opportunity to develop community forestry techniques for community engagement and demonstrate that the approach can assist in delivering the wider agendas of health and community development.
Barking & Dagenham
The South East REACT initiative forms a partnership between the Thames Chase Community Forest, the local Health Trusts and Health Authority and a number of other health organisations / charities. The aim is to make environmental improvements to both the urban fringe and green belt countryside which will a have significant positive effect on public health and well being.
Coalfields (Wakefield)
The project is based upon the Coalfields Regeneration ABI, part of the Coalfields Regeneration Trust (CRT) established in 1999 to tackle poverty, debt and social exclusion in this former coal mining area. REACT offers the opportunity to bring together a number of interested parties (The Forestry Commission, Groundwork Wakefield, Wakefield MBC, CRT and Sport England) in realising opportunities for establishing woodland as a medium for environment improvement, community engagement and economic opportunity.
Greenstart (Tyneside)
GreenStart is designed to demonstrate the value of the natural environment, and in particular local greenspace and countryside, in meeting the aims and objectives of the Government’s Sure Start programme. Working closely with local Sure Start programmes and the regional Sure Start Co-ordinating Unit in Government Office North East, GreenStart will focus on adding an environmental dimension to local Sure start initiatives in:
South East Northumberland and North Tyneside (including the area covered by the Greening for Growth regeneration initiative)
West Durham (including part of the area covered by the Great North Forest)
GreenStart will be managed locally by the Greening for Growth project team and Groundwork West Durham.
Greenstart (Middlesborough)
The project area covers Middlesborough Unitary Local authority with primary focus on the most deprived wards utilising Neighbourhood Renewal fund deprivation criteria. The key ABIs which relate to this project are New Commitment to Regeneration (Local Government Association), New Deal for Communities (a national pathfinder project) and the Neighbourhood Renewal fund.
The aim is to inspire and enable wide scale landscape improvement in Middlesbrough through increase in woodland cover and change in land management practices, by linking into existing regeneration efforts within the Borough to directly influence implementation and policy.
