Community, sustainability and fun!
We’re a group of Southbank (York) residents who aim to raise awareness of sustainability issues, through various activities and projects, all of which have an element of sociability and fun!
Planet South Bank began in 2011, growing out of the York Green Neighbourhood Challenge, a pilot project undertaken by the Stockholm Environment Institute (with the support of the City of York Council and partners), aiming to help householders reduce their carbon footprints. When the project finished, the two winning teams, from Bishopthorpe Road and the Scarcroft area, came together to form the nucleus of a new, independent group, Planet South Bank, using the prize money to start our work.
The group is open to anyone living in the broadly-defined ‘greater South Bank’ area, covering the area East to West between Bishopthorpe Road and Tadcaster Road, and North to South between the city walls and the former Terry’s site.
What we’ve done so far..
It’s been an eclectic mix, including:
- A ‘Green Christmas’ campaign, with information stalls and community singing.
- Community Garden
- Stalls at various fairs, festivals and meetings
- Scarecrow Trails
- Repair Cafes
- Street Recycle (normally twice a year)
- Crafty Crawl
- How We Made It Through creative writing project
- Looking through the garden art installation
Planet South Bank 
Though I cannot see it now, but I am sure I read on one of your web pages about community gardening. I would be particularly interested to hear more about this specifically as I live in Nunthorpe Grove.
Hi Jo, community gardening is one of our projects this year, and we’re working with Edible York and others to find somewhere locally to grow food (and probably some flowers too). We have a couple of local possibilities which are not yet agreed, so we’ll keep you posted. Meanwhile, Nunthorpe Grove (and Crescent) are lucky to have big gardens and quiet roads with grass verges – do you think residents would be interested in garden-sharing or in ‘adopting’ a verge, by planting it with herbs etc?
We think you’re INCREDIBLE!