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South Lancashire, Cheshire, Merseyside and Manchester

North West Climate Change Champion, 14-year-old Jessica Smith from Southport, is shown around Moston Vale by Adam Davison of the Forestry Commission. Copyright : Barbara Philips, COIBased at our Delamere offices we have team dedicated to  creating and managing new community woodlands in The Mersey and Red Rose Forests covering Cheshire, Greater Manchester, Merseyside & South Lancashire.

The team is working together with other partners to restore derelict, underused and neglected land to new community woodland. Some of the woodlands that the team have created include  Livia, Viridor, Sutton Manor, Higher Folds, Sefton Meadows, Horrocks, Moston Vale, Bidston Moss, Rose Farm, Barlows Farm, Wheatacre, Maypole and Fairchild's farm.

Dream Sculpture, Sutton Manor near St HelensThe team includes:

  • Tim Oliver (Team Leader)
  • Andy Glover (Community Devleopment Manager)
  • Richard Topley (Woodland Managers)
  • Sarah Wilson ( Admin Officer)   
  • Kelda Platt (Assisstant Landscape Architect)
  • Angiolina Albertini (Environmental Scientist)
  • Gemma Eborall (Civil Engineer)
  • Duncan MacNaughton, Katie Horgan, Phill Lee and Richard Mostyn (Community Rangers)

 The team can be contacted on 01606 882167or by email  or find their office with multimap

Crowd watching football - Newlands, Moston ValeChildren from St. Mark’s Primary School in Swinton put their own stamp on stone amphitheatre, which forms part of the Lower Irwell Valley Improvement Area (LIVIA) Community Woodland, Greater ManchesterWorkers completing pathways and landscape work at Moston Vale. Manchester