For four years, our Eco Lifestyle Project has provided advice, activities, information and awareness around environmental impacts of lifestyle choices. The project is ending, but the practice is not. The last several years has seen 60 people attend Eco Club, 80 people attend awareness sessions, 300 attendances at environmental events, and 300 eco-crafts completed at […]
Continue Reading
Christmas is often a time of excess and waste. By making our Christmas activities as sustainable as possible, we’re taking the lead on making it a time of wholesomeness and kindness, instead. At Middleport Matters, we understand the need to care for the natural world and do our bit to protect it. With this in […]
Continue Reading
Residents have reported spotting hedgehogs around the area. As their numbers across the UK have been declining in recent years, we set out to support them better. We created safe housing for them at the Root’n’Fruit community allotment and set up a temporary feeding station in Middleport Park. We also rescued one young hedgehog found […]
Continue Reading
In September, we spoke to residents walking through St.Paul’s Churchyard to find out which areas around Middleport, Longport and Dalehall they thought were most in need of improvement. One key issue that was discussed was fly tipping and littering in the local area. Almost half of the people we spoke to said this was the […]
Continue Reading
As part of our community allotment project, we held an apple pressing event to make use of our apple harvest along with other plott holders apple donations to save them from going to waste. The event brought people together of all walks of life and taught people the traditional skills of apple pressing. Attendees of […]
Continue Reading
Weather is remarkable. It gives the water, warmth and light that plants and animals need to live and grow. It gives us the water we need for drinking, cooking and washing. It can even give us the power to run homes, factories and vehicles. Over summer, we ran three sessions, each focusing on the power […]
Continue Reading
Part funded by The Hubb Foundation. Over summer we have welcomed familes with children eligible for free school meals, who live in Stoke-on-Trent, aged 4-16 years, to enjoy free activities with us as part of our summer provision. There have been 8 different opportunities for these children to come along to enjoy enriching activity with […]
Continue Reading
Over summer, we’ve delivered 3 family gardening sessions for families with children ages 0-18 years. These sessions aimed to encourage outdoor play and activity, inspire healthy cooking and eating, and provide the skills to grow fruits and vegetables from home. At the sessions, children and their families had opportunities to explore the allotment through a […]
Continue Reading
Solid toiletries used to be standard, but now we expect everything to come in a bottle. However, solids are making a comeback!
Continue Reading
No Mow May aims to encourage boring lawns to become a riot of colour and buzzing with life, simply by not mowing for a month. This year, in conjunction with Stoke-on-Trent City Council, Middleport Matters engaged in No Mow May on the Newport Lane green. As well as the council refraining from mowing, Middleport Matters […]
Continue Reading
