The OHCG is an organisation that links residents, schools, parishes and businesses.
The OHV organises days out and events to benefit the community. We have several community garden projects, an allotment, sports teams and we run leisure activities.
There is a well-established litter-picking contingent within the community group which regularly clean-up the area including a long stretch of the A6.
Contacts:
Donna Lamey: lameydonna@gmail.com
John Bullen : j.bullen1@ntlworld.com
John Bullen
07749868692 or 01942 874719
https://www.overhultoncg.co.uk/
https://www.facebook.com/The-Over-Hulton-Community-group-771127079590519/
Each autumn, Over Hulton Community Group volunteers gather to plant 100-metre lengths of the road, which stretches between the Four Lane Ends junction and the Watergate Lane roundabout for approximately one kilometre. In December 2023, with a significant portion of the busy road still waiting to be planted, Amazon workers stepped in to donate 7,000 bulbs and help with the planting as part of the company's work to help the community.
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ALL HAIL OHIO, ALL HAIL OHIO! (Over Hulton Information Outlet)
We are able to celebrate a major success from our Crime Prevention Whatsapp this week.
We have over one thousand Over Hulton subscribers to our OHIO crime prevention Whatsapp. This week we are able to acknowledge a major success . The Whatsapp combined with diligent and determined work from our police officers has seen the conviction of a regular offender. This is from the Bolton News sent in by our OHIO main ad More.....
Some brilliant news and wonderful ideas for other groups to read about in the Over Hulton Newsletter 17.0
Click here to read it!!
Below are some stories from John Bullen, the wonderfully active group organiser of Over Hulton Community Group, illustrating the community spirit in the Over Hulton area:
First a little amusing tale. When the first lockdown was announced we tried to identify any residents who may need help. I contacted a lovely lady in the street adjacent to mine - Mary. She is an absolute gem and let's just say she has passed through the 90 birthday landmark. I am 64. I said, "Mary, it's More.....
Yet more news from Over Hulton! Click here to read News Bulletin Number 16.9
Over Hulton Community Group are as active as ever! We are planting daffodils which will look spectacular next spring,
and we have TWO News Bulletins ....
Click here to read News Bulletin Number 16.7
Click here to read News Bulletin Number 16.8
Over Hulton Community Group have been as active as ever in September; click here to read News Bulletin Number 16.1
Over the last few years our group has received FIVE HUNDRED POUNDS from Bolton Green Umbrella. Every single penny of this money has been spent on improving our community. We are so grateful. The focal point of our community is our shopping precinct. We have created a bedding plant garden which is a source of great pride for our residents. It is planted out each year in early spring to augment the daffodil bulbs and again at the end of May with that year's choice of bedding plants. This year we h More.....
Bolton's "hidden gem" has been well and truly discovered during lockdown. Cutacre Country Park on the A6 Salford Road next to Junction 4 M61 - head out of Over Hulton towards Walkden and it's on the right - has become a very welcome refuge for people to social distance but get their fresh air and exercise. It opened two years ago but parts are still under construction particularly down to the south Tyldesle More.....
Over Hulton Community Group have been just as active this month!
Click here to read Over Hulton News Bulletin 16.4
CUTACRE COUNTRY PARK
Everyone has been out during lockdown trying to get that one hour’s social distancing exercise in. That caused a problem in the Cutacre Country Park. It is estimated that park usage, and especially dog walkers, was up an incredible thirty fold. The Park management have reacted with admirable alacrity and installed new, larger, more suitable dog waste bins. It is stressed that the bins should only be used for the intended purpose and not for general waste, po More.....
RED LION COMMUNITY GARDEN
The Over Hulton Community Group has a terrific relationship with the Red Lion pub at Four Lane Ends. This has led to the plot of land next to the pub’s outdoor drinking area being turned into a Community Garden. Each planting season the landlord buys the plants and community volunteers plant them! The sign for the garden was showing serious signs of age. Two of the volunteers stepped forward to make a new one – and a superb job it is. Well done Ro More.....
The Over Hulton Community Group decided late last year that it was time to start taking positive action against crime in the area. A retired policeman resident came forward with a proposal to create a crime prevention Whatsapp. He entitled it OHIO – Over Hulton Information Outlet. Basically residents with smartphones subscribe to the Whatsapp. If they spot suspicious activity, scams, ASB – anything crime related - they message into the Whatsapp and everyone gets alerted immediatel More.....
The story below relates to a donation of £100 made by Bolton Green Umbrella to Over Hulton Community Group back in March 2019 :
Great news for all the volunteers at Over Hulton Community Group and a big THANK YOU to Green Umbrella. This hard-working team of volunteers has finally managed to procure storage space for a host of different tools and equipment courtesy of a Green Umbrella grant. Chairman John Bullen explains, “All other groups will know exactly what I am talking More.....
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