Don't forget! 📢 The Recycle for Greater Manchester Renew Community Fund is closing TOMORROW at noon 🕛 Make those last-minute tweaks to your applications and make sure they're submitted by 12pm tomorrow... gmet.org.uk/apply-funding/… 📸 Caritas Salford

Plaque Power! 🤩Our #GreenSpacesFund plaques are popping up all over GM, celebrating the fantastic community-led projects that are making nature more accessible across the city region. The team at NorthCare Charity 💙 recently got theirs - even Herbie the dog looks happy with it!

Have you noticed? 👀 We've updated our name from the Greater Manchester Environment Fund to the Greater Manchester Environment Trust (GMET). "Trust" better reflects our status as a registered charity & creates more clarity about our role as an organisation that manages 2 funds.

Ending the week with wildflowers 🌼 Local Food First have created this beautiful, pollinator-friendly wildflower meadow at a community allotment in Oldham, thanks to the Green Spaces Fund. From little seeds, great things can flourish... 💚 #GreenSpacesFund

Last week, we delivered a #GreenSpacesFund plaque to the Brotherhood Peace Garden in Moss Side with Kieron, one of our Green Spaces Fund advisors 🌿 Their community garden is flourishing! Sow the City

Fantastic progress pics from BrinningtonBigLocal at their #GreenSpacesFund-ed Memorial Garden 💚 "There has been so many positives when building our memorial garden & multi purpose space. Watching the community, partners & volunteers come together has made our hearts sing"

Big news! 🎉 We're thrilled to announce that this year's Recycle for Greater Manchester Renew Community Fund received a record-breaking number of applications. Over 100 applications were submitted for Round 5, demonstrating the very strong demand for support across Greater Manchester.

Three cheers for Fairfield Hospital! 🏥🌿 Their 'Rewilding Fairfield Hospital' #GreenSpacesFund project in Bury is providing vital green space for patients, visitors and staff. Read more: gmet.org.uk/blog/annabelle…

Our #GreenSpacesFund plaques are popping up all over GM! 🤩🐝 We visited the Brotherhood Peace Garden by BCS United Kingdom in Moss Side with Sow the City's Kieron, one of our fantastic GSF Advisors, to deliver their plaque - why not pop in and see the amazing work they've done? 🌿

Yesterday, we joined the Lord Mayor of Manchester to open a fantastic #GreenSpacesFund project in Crumpsall 🌿 Rainbow Surprise CIO have just launched 'Our Happy Place': a project designed to create a community-focused garden and bring locals together 🫶🐝✨ @sowthecity

Sunny green space in Stockport ☀️🌿 Beacon Counselling are using the #GreenSpacesFund to convert the blank slate of @Merseyway Shopping Centre into biodiverse hub for the local community. These planters are the first phase, with much more to come! 👏 #stockport

Venture down Rock Street in Salford and you'll find this charming community garden... 🌼 Take Action Together have used the #GreenSpacesFund to turn an unused patch of land into a vibrant space filled with vegetable beds and flowers. More info: gmet.org.uk/green-spaces-f…

A blooming great #GreenSpacesFund project in Bury 🏥🌿⬇️ Staff and volunteers at Fairfield General Hospital in Bury are on a mission to regreen their site for the benefit of patients, visitors, staff and the local community. NorthCare Charity 💙 bury

Food glorious FOOD! 🤩 There's been an explosion of colour at The Monastery Manchester's #GreenSpacesFund project, including: 🥔 Potatoes 🌶️ Chillies 🥒 Courgettes & cucumbers 🥬 Lettuces 🏵️ Nasturtium flowers 🫛 Green beans 🤍 Vanilla-scented nemesia 🍫 Chocolate-scented cosmos

Come along to the next GM Green & Blue Spaces Action Network event, hosted by our #GreenSpacesFund partner Sow the City: 📅 Date: Tuesday 15th July 🕒 Time: 10:30-12:30 or 14:30-16:30 📍 Location: Castlefield Viaduct 🎟️ RSVP: Click here to book your place: eventbrite.co.uk/e/gm-green-and…

👀 LOOK AT THIS amazing before and after transformation for the Brotherhood Peace Garden in Moss Side 👏 They've used the #GreenSpacesFund to turn a bare patch of concrete into a flourishing garden for all💚 BCS United Kingdom Andy Burnham Sow the City

Huge congratulations to Claire and the entire SNUG team - they won the "Making Our Neighbourhoods Cleaner and Greener" award at the Manchester Be Proud Awards, for their amazing #GreenSpacesFund project in Crowcroft Park🐝 #GMGreenCity

Rewilding Fairfield Hospital Q&A 🍃🐕⬇️ We sat down with Catherine (and her adorable dog Herbie) from Fairfield Hospital in Bury to learn more about their #GreenSpacesFund project. "It's actually quite easy to put a bulb in the ground, and most of them just grow" 🌷

Green Spaces Fund Deadline Update! 📢🌳 By popular demand, we have extended the deadline to apply for the 6th round of the #GreenSpacesFund by two weeks. The new deadline is: 📅 12PM (NOON) THURSDAY 31st JULY 2025 📅 Visit gmet.org.uk/green-spaces-f… for more info

Many hands make light work! 🙌 Last week, we had a fantastic time with a group of corporate volunteers from Enterprise, who spent the day pruning, painting, weeding, mowing and enjoying the sunshine at St Gabriel's Community Garden #GreenSpacesFund project.