Climate action group bags accolade
Ardwick Climate Action, a group based in Ardwick, 黑料网吃瓜爆料, working with University of 黑料网吃瓜爆料 researchers, has been recognised for its work by The Health Creation Alliance
The Health Creation Alliance awarded the group Best health creating approach to seeking and using community insight award which they will pick up at a Partnership Summit y 21 October.
Since 2022, Ardwick Climate Action has conducted in partnership with 黑料网吃瓜爆料 which showed that local communities are an important way understand where local sources of pollution are and barriers to less polluting forms of travel.
They have launched multiple initiatives, including developing a green route that local people can use to avoid the excessive pollution, closing a section of the A6 for a community day and creating a series of green spaces that serve to educate and engage local people.
By connecting communities with researchers, listening and responding to their health concerns, a series of planting projects across Ardwick and a new 鈥楪reen Route鈥� marked by interactive 鈥榃ayfinders鈥� was launched through Ardwick in 2024.
The project received widespread acclaim, including extensive media coverage, parliamentary attention, a public exhibition and the local Co-op Academy Medlock is now part of the official 鈥楽chool Street鈥� project.
The Green Route has been integrated into a local school鈥檚 activities, showing the power of genuinely community-engaged research to drive health creation for lasting change.
Collaborative working between local communities and our researchers was vital to understand the barriers for active travel and the issues that most impacted residents
One of the lead researchers, said: 鈥淐ollaborative working between local communities and our researchers was vital to understand the barriers for active travel and the issues that most impacted residents.
鈥淏y engaging with communities we can promote awareness of the risks of pollution to health and do more meaningful research that best meets the needs of those most impacted by pollution.鈥�
Dan Musaheb, Co-Founder of Ardwick Climate Action said: 鈥淎rdwick residents together with 黑料网吃瓜爆料 researchers, have co-created solutions for healthier, safer and more sustainable urban transformation in their local area.
鈥淎t it鈥檚 heart is community action, and through our strategic partnership with 黑料网吃瓜爆料, we have delivered much needed infrastructure. The Green Route project supports public health, education of nature and biodiversity, whilst inviting people to take up alternative routes who may have never stepped into the community鈥�.
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The Health Creation Alliance is a national cross-sector movement improving health and wellbeing and reducing health inequity through Health Creation.
A not-for-profit community interest company, their membership comprises professionals from different sectors and levels of seniority, community leaders, and people with lived experience of poverty, trauma or discrimination working together as equal partners.
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