Winnington and Castle - CWAC Cllrs

24/04/2026

Do you have an idea for a project in Winnington and Castle? (this is a bit of a long post but please read if you do!)

There are two funding streams available for local projects.

**1. Councillor Member's Budget**

Arthur and I have £5000 each to spend on local projects over the course of this year. In previous years we have used this to fund projects such as a sensory room at Darwin Community Primary School and a fire pit for the fantastic Bugz and Bunnies close to Moss Farm. If you have an idea please go to the following link for further details. (You need to have a constitution and a bank account but if these are not available it may be we can find a partnering organisation to hold the funds on your behalf).

**2. SpaceHive Funding**

This is a bigger amount of funding and uses crowd funding as part of the process. Visit the website for further details and examples of projects. https://www.spacehive.com/movement/cwc/projects

There is also an information event on Wednesday 29th April for people to find out more.

Please get in touch if need any assistance. There are already some fantastic projects coming through.

Discover projects in Cheshire West Crowd

18/04/2026

I’m here with Andy and Sophie from the Northwich District Community and Youth Centre.

We’re setting up for the joint consultation about the centre and the parklands.

Come along if you can, 10 - 12 today. Tea and coffee all set up!

13/04/2026

11/04/2026

Informal Dual Consultation Event *Saturday 18th April 10 - 12*

Winnington Parklands & Northwich and District Youth and Community Centre.

Both these places are well loved and used and both could do with some TLC.

We are at present having conversations with council officers about how to improve the well used Winnington Parklands. We would like to hold an informal consultation on the 18th April for people to share those views as to what, if anything, Winnington Parklands needs. Would you like some more trees planted? Or perhaps a wildflower meadow or willow sculpture trail.

It might be that you think its fabulous as it is and it shouldn't be improved at all!

Please come along and let us know. We will also post on here after the event if anyone would like to email or comment digitally.

This is a JOINT consultation with Northwich and District Youth Centre. They have some really brilliant plans in the pipeline to improve the centre and would also like to know exactly what people want.

Hopefully see you there if you can make it.

30/03/2026

Arthur and I want to do some bulb planting in Autumn across Winnington and Castle and are working with Northwich Town Council to source a bulk of bulbs. Is there anywhere you'd like us to focus on? Let us know so we can plan. We hope to do this on a day anyone can get invovled and help us plant them.

11/03/2026

We report every issue we receive from residents to the council. Some are easy to sort whereas others are more complex.

The council are currently trying to sort all paths after Winter across the borough and this is one in our ward they recently did (thanks to the resident who also flagged this).

11/03/2026

We had a mini opening of the steps near Highfield Road a few weeks ago. This was a really difficult issue to resolve given ambiguity around land ownership. We managed to get it sorted though and want to clear this path too.

This path is really well used and definitely worth a wander down if you are going from Castle into Northwich. There's a lovely view of the town too with a viewing platform from the Vale Royal days.

Thank you Stuart and Terry for raising this and helping. And thanks to Paul and NTC for carrying out the work. (Thanks also to Graham and Lee for raising too!)

19/02/2026

Updates from the past Winter months.

15/02/2026

Cheshire West have school activities available over half term. I've just checked and nothing specifically in Winnington and Castle but a few things at Brio. If you know anyone that might like to run something for kids in Easter please let us know and we can forward the relevant person to contact.

14/02/2026

Went on a fantastic tour or Grozone, Rod's Secret Garden, Dane Orchard and Changing Lives Together. This was part of research into what we might be able to do in Castle as part of the community led Castle Greening and Cleaning CGC project.

We talked about green walls, self watering planters (from gutters) and espalier fruit trees.

It's absolutely phenomenal the work that goes on in these places. Please support them if you can! Thanks to Mark from Sustainable Northwich and Pete from Grozone for your time and energy.

Give them a like or pop down some time!

Rod's Secret Garden in Northwich
Grozone Community Garden
Sustainable Northwich (Transition Northwich)
Dane Valley Community Orchard

03/12/2025

*Toxic Free Tomorrow - Community Meeting*

There was a good turnout on Sunday for Toxic Free Tomorrow’s community meeting to discuss the work the campaign group are doing around the Wallerscote land remediation proposal. It was good to hear the anecdotal stories of the lime beds and the examples of other applications and similar situations in other parts of the country.

The group is led by some very motivated, positive people that will be directly affected by this application. All of the group's members are using different skill sets to support the campaign.

This group is about proactive commitment to a cause people really care about. Sometimes it’s not easy to see how things can be improved or changed and it takes a lot of energy with the road ahead not always being clear. Thanks to the group (residents and councillors) for what you are doing. If you’d like to be involved please get in touch and join the facebook group for further updates.

P.S more people came than in that photo! just didn't want to share anyone's identity without permission.

Toxic Free Tomorrow
https://www.facebook.com/groups/808068638627503