Manchester community resources

This article is an offshoot of Manchester community action focusing on community resources and assets. Resources such as networks, events and community involvement (people and relationships) can be considered as primary resources. Also resources are the activism and physical assets (or what citizens value), such as green spaces and biodiversity, cycle lanes, food initiatives, etc, from the other Manchester community pages.

Food activism

From Wikipedia:Hulme Community Garden Centre

Hulme Community Garden Centre (HCGC) is a garden and community centre in Hulme, Manchester, England. It was featured in a 2017 episode of the TV show Gardener's World.

From Wikipedia:Hulme Community Garden Centre § Facilities

As well as selling plants, HCGC has a café, a public garden, outdoor cooking spaces, a straw bale classroom and a pond area. HCGC run events throughout the year, from courses on growing vegetables to wellbeing sessions.

• Hulme Community Garden Centre, added 17:28, 23 November 2025 (UTC)
• The Kindling Trust, kindling.org.uk, added 17:37, 11 February 2021 (UTC)
• Abundance Manchester, voluntary project which picks surplus or unwanted fruit from gardens and public trees around South Manchester and distributes it to local groups and communities
• Food Futures
• Hulme Community Garden centre
• Incredible Edible Prestwich and District
• Incredible Edible Salford on facebook
• Manchester Veg People, multi-stakeholder co-operative of local organic growers and buyers who are working together to help develop a new model for the local food supply chain
• Sow the City

Video

Community energy

• Carbon Co-op
• Halton Lune Hydro
• Saddleworth Community Hydro
• St John's Sunshine, Old Trafford
• Bee Sustainable, Bury
• Community Energy GM, helping community organizations come together and install renewable energy
• Moss Community Energy

Past events

• September 12, 2015 - Open Day Saddleworth Community Hydro

Housing and land

• Who owns the City? The privatisation of public land in Manchester, By Greater Manchester Housing Action, May 10, 2021...gmhousingaction.com

Past events

• September 12 - 13, 2015 - Open Eco homes, Carbon Coop

Towards sustainable economies

Steady State Manchester, for local prosperity, justice & ecological safety

Resources

The Viable Economy steadystatemanchester

Past events

• May 17, 2017 - Achieving a viable economy – is community business the answer? by Steady State Manchester, eventbrite.com

Arts, sport and culture

• The People Act Legislative Theatre, on youtube.com, bringing residents, policymakers and activists together into creative, fun and constructive dialogue, to co-create more equitable and effective policies and laws. Connect with UK (Edinburgh, Newcastle, Gateshead, Manchester and London) and international practitioners, thepeopleact.org, added 16:16, 10 February 2025 (UTC)

Reduce, reuse, repair and recycle

Recycle for Greater Manchester

Other resources

Funding

• #MakeMCR
• Rusholme Soup

Maps

Locations and Facilities in Trafford

Citizens data initiative

DataGM, freeing Greater Manchester's public data

Research

• Greater Manchester Poverty Commission findings published January 2013, calls for special measures which will assist more than 600,000 Greater Manchester residents who are experiencing the effects of extreme poverty. In addition, calls for action to prevent nearly 1.6 million people (nearly half the population of Greater Manchester) sliding in to deeper poverty.

Apps for sustainability

Recycle for Greater Manchester Phone App