Proud supporters of Butterfly City. Join us! Early in 2020, a group of community organisations got together to discuss how we could make the footpath and cycleway a safer, better place for everyone using it and everything living there. More than that, we wanted to make it a valued space where the community can meet, an educational space where children can learn and play, and also to encourage thos
e who do not currently use it to feel safer to walk, talk and enjoy the history and natural history all around them. The idea of a Green Corridor came about to honour the history of the path as part of the old Hull to Hessle railway line, as well as part of the national network of cycleways that is developing. We were also aware of the wildlife already using the area as a corridor - foxes, birds and bats all use the cycleway as a place to move through between areas they utilise - and wanted to enhance the habitat to make it more accessible to more species of wildlife. A Space for Everyone was born. The current project is funded by the Safer Hull Community Crime Reduction Fund, working with Avenues Action, Princes Avenue Community and Traders and Berkeley Street Neighbourhood Watch. We are also supporting the Hull Butterfly City initiative and have already planted alder buckthorn bushes to encourage more Brimstone butterflies. We are organising more events, offering volunteering opportunities and involving more local community groups as the project develops. Watch this space....