Love Old Trafford

Welcome to our blog for residents who love Old Trafford in Manchester, UK and want to make it an even better place to live. We have an exciting range of small projects ongoing in our area including a biannual open garden event, regular litter picking and generally greening our streets and alleys. We have recently secured funding from the Greater Manchester Environment Fund to transform a neglected green space on Stretford Road in Old Trafford into a haven for wildlife. This is our largest and most ambitious project to date, see OT Community Goes Wild project for more information.

We hold community events and support local projects from groups like the Friends of Hullard Park, Friends of Seymour Park and OT Creative Space. This is a brilliant time for you to come along, meet us and join in. If you have an idea of your own and would like our support or perhaps to run a project through Love Old Trafford please email and tell us all about it.

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If you want to get in touch, contact us by email.

Borrow our tools!

LOTs has tools and equipment it can lend to local residents who want to make environmental improvements for FREE.  You are welcome to borrow our spades, trowels, wheel barrow, litter pickers, gloves, shovels and buckets. We even have a lovely gazebo that would be great for a community event.

Contact us at loveoldtrafford@gmail.com

Love Old Trafford Aims are: 

To bring the community together to focus on the environment of the area
To work, negotiate and campaign for improvements in the community
To encourage a sense of community by welcoming members irrespective of race, nationality, colour, ethnicity, sex, disability, sexual orientation, religious beliefs, political opinions or marital status
To ensure that all members are informed and consulted regularly and that all residents who live in the area are encouraged to join.

See our Constitution: copy-of-love-old-trafford-updated-constitution-july-2016-1.docx

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This is our committee (we are always open to new people)

Alex Sporidou – Chair, Project Lead Friends of Hullard Park, volunteer beekeeper

Emma Burgham – Secretary

Julian Dearlove – Treasurer

Liz Madge – Communications Lead; OT Community Goes Wild

Caroline Corless, Committee Member; Project Lead OT Community Goes Wild; volunteer beekeeper

Jill Audibert – Committee Member; OT Community Goes Wild

Laura Mackey – Committee Member

Cat Thomson – Committee Member

Cath Wade – Committee Member

Nicola Scott – Committee Member, Project Lead on Pesticide-Free OT

Philip Johnson – volunteer beekeeper

Thank You to all LOTs friends

A special thanks to Mark Dale. I know we might criticise Trafford Council every now and then, but Mark from the One Trafford Team really does support what we are trying to do.  We were mightily impressed that the tree pits were re-planted after plants & flowers were destroyed by weed killer maintenance spraying.

More information

Love Old Trafford (formerly the Old Trafford Environment and Safety Group) became constituted in April 2013. The group has been meeting since January 2011 and has been involved in environmental, safety and community growing activities since then. This community-led group has been working with partners (local Councillors, Trafford Council, GMP Police, Greater Manchester Environment Fund, The Conservation Volunteers, Hope Manchester, St John’s Church, L&Q Housing, Princes Trust volunteers, amongst others) to improve the condition of the environment and improve community safety in Old Trafford.