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Title: Local projects benefit from 2017 Stockport Hydro Environmental Challenge Awards
Post by: admin on February 24, 2017, 10:10:07 AM

Posted on behalf of Stockport Hydro:

Another successful year for Stockport Hydro Ltd: 11 local projects benefit from the 2017 Environmental Challenge Award

Representatives of the projects will receive their awards at 10.30 am on 10th March 2017 at Stockport Hydro at Otterspool on the River Goyt.  This year the fund, created by the sale of renewable energy, has been increased to £2,000. 

Awards will be presented to:   

• Furniture Station, Hazel Grove; contribution to working safely courses for staff.
• Friends of Marple Memorial Park; new pollen and nectar rich plants and trees to improve diversity of park.
• Seashell Trust; creation of a raised bed enabling children in wheelchairs to participate in horticultural activities alongside children and young adults with learning difficulties and sensory impairment.
• All Saints C of E Primary School; purchase of trees to improve school grounds.
• MESS; purchase of picnic table for community orchard.
• Friends of Torkington Park; installation of bird and bat boxes.
• Heaton School; provision of mats for wheelchair access to forest activities and purchase of fire pit to enhance sensory experiences of children and young adults with learning difficulties and sensory impairment.
• Walthew House; contribution towards costs of materials for leisure activities for centre users with sight, hearing or sensory loss.
• Friends of Hesketh Park and Mellor Green; funding for purchase of hedging, shrubs, self-seeding annual and perennial wild flowers.
• St Christopher’s Primary School; purchase of outdoor clothing to ensure all children engage in outdoor activities.
• Marple Community Café; purchase a hob to enable hot food to be sold.

Stockport Hydro is run entirely by volunteers and produces power that is fed directly into the National Grid. This creates an income that maintains the scheme, pays a return to investors and the Environmental Challenge fund.  Over the anticipated 40-year life of the project, the scheme expects to save over 100,000 tonnes of CO2.

For further information/interviews contact: http://www.stockport-hydro.co.uk (http://www.stockport-hydro.co.uk) 

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