Mission green funding shared with Daresbury community

Projects with an emphasis on sustainability, the environment, health and wellbeing were invited to apply to Mission Green Daresbury, a voluntary scheme offered by the homebuilder.

Sales director Sian Pitt explained: “The concept of Mission Green is simple – we want to celebrate and support those people and organisations in and around Daresbury who are working hard to look after the environment or residents’ wellbeing. We had a great response and received applications from a range of worthy causes. Deciding how to share the funding was tricky and so we tried to focus on projects that would have maximum impact on the wider community in the area surrounding our Bridgewater View development. Two local schools have received funding to help improve their outdoors space, a church is setting up a gardening club and we’ve supported Daresbury Litter Network to help keep the neighbourhood clean and tidy. We’ve also sponsored mental wellbeing breakfasts for people with autism and funding community cooking lessons.”

The Mission Green funding was allocated as follows:

• All Saints Church received funding to help set up a gardening club
• Daresbury Litter Network was given a grant for equipment for volunteers to keep the neighbourhood clean
• Daresbury Primary School was awarded funds towards a sensory garden
• Fresh Beginnings will use its share to offer four inclusive cooking lessons at the Walton Lea Partnership
• Sandymoor Ormiston Academy will install benches as part of improvements to outdoor space with the funding it received
• The Autism Wellbeing Project will host free mental health wellbeing breakfast chats for adults with autism thanks to the grant from Castle Green

Mission Green Daresbury is a voluntary scheme.  It’s in addition to the £1.6 million of community investment, agreed during the planning process, linked to Castle Green’s Bridgewater View development.

That funding includes more than £1 million for off-site public open space, £500,000 of improvements to public rights of way and £60,000 towards sustainable transport.

For more information about the new community taking shape at Bridgewater View see Bridgewater View.