Green Roots

Green Roots is Multistory’s community arts and cultural programme that invites Sandwell residents to explore how we might build environmentally resilient communities through our local, natural and urban environments. From wildlife walks and community mapping, to planting meadows and greening the high street, this programme sets out to provide opportunities for our communities and residents in Sandwell to develop a greater engagement in, and knowledge about, the natural capacity of our surroundings.

Beginning in West Bromwich, as part of Sandwell Council’s Urban Greening Town Improvement Fund to improve and enhance green public spaces in the area, Green Roots offers a programme of co-produced and community-led activities that currently spans three Sandwell towns: Tipton, Wednesbury and West Bromwich.

Green Roots brings together local residents, artists, activists, urban planners, community support groups, gardeners, schools and ecologists through a cultural programme of workshops, activities and events to explore the environment around us. Working in partnership with the Birmingham and Black Country Wildlife Trust and local authorities, Green Roots encourages us to question: what is growing on our doorstep; how can we make space for both people and wildlife in our towns; and how can we utilise our green spaces for our benefit as well as nature’s?

Green Roots considers both our urban environment alongside the natural environment, and how these can work in tandem. Urban environments are home to plants and non-human animals, and can encompass public parks as well as other types of informal green spaces such as green streetscapes, nature areas, roof gardens and community gardens.

Read more about the three Green Roots strands we are working on across Sandwell, in West Bromwich, Wednesbury and Tipton below.

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Programme

Green Roots has been generously funded by Sandwell Council’s Urban Greening Town Improvement Fund; the Energy Saving Trust; the UK Government’s Know Your Neighbourhood Fund; Historic England; the National Lottery Heritage Fund; Urban Foresight; and Arts Council England.