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Garstang Hub - Open Day
After a few weeks of stripping rotten raised beds, salvaging wood, and renovating most of the site, we decided to hold an open day as we...


Renovation of the Garstang Hub
In 2019, Bolton NEWT assumed management of a neglected Bolton At Home plot, overrun with fly-tipping and brambles. Through dedicated...

Darcy Lever Community Orchard - Leverhulme Park
As part of the funding under our 'Houses to Homes' project for Leverhulme Park, funded under the GMEF green spaces project, we had...


Magical Christmas Forest 2023
This year we held our 'free entry' Christmas event at the Garstang Hub. As people entered the site, they had the opportunity to plant...


Halloween Bat-tastic 2023
This had been our most successful Halloween event since our first hosting, all the way back in 2018. Over the last few years we had built...


10,000sqm of Green Space Improvements! Nope, we did 15,623sqm!
As part of our project this year to improve greenspace at Leverhulme Park, by June we had already slashed, bashed, cut and sowed habitats...


49 Bat Boxes - Do you want to help your local bats?
As part of our ambitious project under the Greater Manchester Environment Fund we pledged to make 100 features (bird, bat, owl, hedgehog...


Blackshaw Primary tree planting with Bolton NEWT
Today we held our Woodland trust hedgerow planting session with Blackshaw Primary School. The free community pack consists of 120...


Wildflower Meadows - Our Plans for 2023
In 2014 we begun experimenting with yellow rattle as an establisher for wildflower meadows, in that same year we later met Fred Lovell...


'I Dig Trees' hedgerow
Our two tree planting sessions have finished for March, leaving a new staggered hedgerow of 360 trees planted on New House Farm,...
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