Riverside - Bootle brightened by bulbs

13 November 2009

Children from two schools in Bootle have been planting bulbs as part of an initiative to make the town a cleaner, greener and safer place to live.

Riverside funded the bulb planting via its Housing Market Renewal Living Through Change budget, which supports residents as they live through a long term regeneration programme. Around 100 pupils from Thomas Grey School and All Saints School helped plant more than 2,000 daffodil and crocus bulbs on their school sites and at three parks. Riverside’s Community Initiatives Officer Bob Campbell said: “This follows on from the Big Tidy up initiative earlier in the year which included the planting of 800 bulbs in Poets Park and Marsh Lane Park and won a Strictly Regeneration Award for Good Practice in Partnership Working. “The aim of initiatives like this is to raise awareness among young people of the importance of the environment in which they live and its impact on quality of life. By involving young people and developing ownership of an area it makes them more likely to take pride in it.”