We check out the recent progress Alwoodley 2030 has made, and look forward to its 2025 plan for creating a greener community.
Alwoodley 2030: Climate Action Hub has made significant strides in its second year, positioning itself for sustained impact and growth as it heads toward the final year of its National Lottery-funded Climate Action Leeds programme. The organisation has successfully increased its visibility, membership, and collaborations, while building local capacity to address climate and nature issues in Alwoodley.
One of the key achievements in 2024 was the increase in membership by 375%, driven by visible campaigns like the Ward-Wide Walk to School Week, regular community outreach at local farmer’s markets, and participation in regional green fairs. These efforts have fostered deeper community engagement, with local groups growing by 118% from five to fourteen. These groups now span across nature, food, transport, homes, and energy, fostering diverse climate actions within Alwoodley.
Notably, Alwoodley 2030 has strengthened relationships with key local and regional organisations, including the Yorkshire Wildlife Trust, The Climate Ambassadors Programme, Cycle North, The Leeds Cycle Campaign, Sustainable Transport Team and Woodland Creation Teams, WRAPT, Living Streets, the Alwoodley Based Friends-of Groups, and Leeds City Council’s Climate Emergency Advisory Committee. Alwoodley 2030 has also begun work on creating the Alwoodley Nature Network, laying the groundwork for more strategic nature recovery efforts in 2025.
Alwoodley 2030 supports local people to come together and find their own ways of helping the environment. By supporting people with their ideas, so much has happened! The first two years of Alwoodley 2030 included a successful Ward Wide Walk to School Week, establishing of neighbourhood community compost sites, catalysing Alwoodley Incredible Edible to form, incubating the newly registered Alwoodley Community Energy (ACE), successfully enrolling 100 households in the Nature Friendly Gardens Club, establishing a Low Carbon Homes club – supporting members to save energy through their homes, orchard care and tree planting events, two community wassails, many plant and seed swaps, and more!
Alwoodley 2030 was set up as one of climate action hubs under the umbrella of Climate Action Leeds (CAL). The group is in its third and final year of CAL funding. Under the leadership of the group’s new Chair, Louise Jennings, and Steering Group members,
Hiba Khurshid, Cath Taylor, Nicola Kelly, Liz Watson, Sarann Dean, Lornne West, the group is working on registering as a CIO to ensure that its work of helping the people of Alwoodley thrive by working together to improve the environment continues.
If you have an idea, please contact the Hub Worker, Jennifer Roberts, at Info@alwoodley2030.org
