Bolton Green Umbrella was formed in August 2016 when a small number of like-minded people talked about how encouraging and motivating it was that we had at last discovered each others’ existence.

For years each of us had been despairing of the deterioration we saw in our town; the loss of the pride in one’s own community that used to exist.

That’s the spirit we want to recover in our town.
For more information about us, please click here.

We seek out groups and like-minded individuals to form a network that promotes our aim of making Bolton a cleaner and greener town for all its residents. We work together to restore pride in our town, and take responsibility for our own back yard.

We also work to commit local organisations and businesses to care for and maintain the area around their premises, volunteer their time and/or resources to a local volunteer group or project.

Friends of School Hill

We are newly formed group (supported by the local Peer Navigators) who want to renovate a disused communal area into a clean, green space for local residents (all living in flats with no garden space of their own).
Our project is to take place on the estate around School Hill, BL1. We want to screen off the area between the bins and create a child friendly place to play and put some plants in maybe to climb up a trellis, and in the raised bed some herbs and say what they are good for. A play area on this for the kids to dig and play and plant some new things. Also possible a sand pit and a whirly gig washing line, as the residents use the plant bed for drying their washing at the moment!.

We want to make it nicer for the residents to be outside, and for the children on the estate to feel safer and a cleaner environment, and hopefully this will improve attitudes, and then we can encourage going to work and looking after themselves better in prep for this hopefully, and encourage the younger generation to have higher expectations for their future

We also want to promote recycling and litter picking to keep the area nice for everyone.

Community ECO Friendly Festival

Bolton Green Umbrella - Social Event

Staet if a new year

Elderflowers | Friday 28 February 2025

Six of us went to the garden centre to use the grant we had, we bought new hay racks,4, new perennials and alpines to plant our existing troughs, along with fresh compost and gravel.

The hay racks will be planted with summer bedding along with our hanging baskets. This us helping to bring neighbours together and brighten the court up.

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