Projects

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  • Affordable Warmth
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  • Cycle Centre
  • Horticulture
  • Active Travel
  • Youth Activities
  • Get Involved
  • Middlesbrough Food Partnership
  • Community Patchwork Orchard

MEC Office Heritage Orchard

This is the former Nature’s World Heritage Orchard, managed by MEC and providing fruit for community projects.

Patchwork Orchard Map

Where to find fruit growing in public places across Middlesbrough that is [generally] free to take.

Middlesbrough Patchwork Orchard

The Community Patchwork Orchard Project aims to bring more free, fresh and healthy fruit to the people of Middlesbrough.

Middlesbrough Food Map

A food map showing local Middlesbrough food suppliers, including farmers markets and allotments.

Middlesbrough Food Partnership

A cross-sector partnership committed to working together to make healthy, sustainable and accessible food a defining characteristic of Middlesbrough.

Middlesbrough's Food Charter

Middlesbrough’s Food Charter helps households and organisations take positive actions towards more healthy and sustainable food.

Middlesbrough's Food Action Plan

Setting out how Middlesbrough aims to create a place where local people have greater access to good quality, healthy, local and affordable food.

Sustainable Food Cities - Silver Award

Middlesbrough Food Partnership are the proud recipients of the Sustainable Food Cities' Silver Award.

Hearty Beats Forest School

The Hearty Beats Forest School is a service available for schools to help teachers, pupils and parents get in touch with nature.

Hearty Beats Gardening Club

For schools with a school garden, or who are interested in helping their pupils to grow, Hearty Beats are offering a new Gardening Club.

Cycle Centre Ride and Park

To provide secure cycle parking and general cycling related assistance to those visiting the town by bike.

Growing Middlesbrough

Growing Middlesbrough is a town wide initiative to improve access to local food – that is food that has been grown or produced within 50 miles of the town.

Horticulture Training

Some courses are dependent on numbers to run so if you register an interest we can let you know when a course has been arranged, or sign up for our email alerts.

Partnership with Incredible Edible

MEC is working in partnership with Incredible Edible in the North East of England to create kind, confident and connected communities through the power of food.

Fairtrade

For over 10 years Middlesbrough has been a Fairtrade Town and has ran a full range of events and campaigns. Middlesbrough successfully renewed its Fairtrade status in March 2018.

Food Power

Middlesbrough Food Power is working to tackle the rising level of food insecurity across Middlesbrough, by supporting people with effective advice, useful skills and a strong support network.

Town Meal

The Town Meal is a celebration of the growing projects that have run throughout the year, with community groups and individual families reaping the rewards of growing their own fruit and vegetables in locations across the town.

Affordable Warmth

Middlesbrough Affordable Warmth Partnership is a group of organisations and charities from across Middlesbrough who work together to give our most vulnerable residents all the help and support they need.

Smart Meters

Smart meters are the new generation of gas and electricity meters, which replace the traditional meters in our homes. These are currently being rolled out to households and the Government intends that every...

One-to-One Energy Efficiency Advice

Home Visits and One-to-One Energy Advice for vulnerable people, people with long term health conditions, people living with dementia and their carers.

Shopmobility

Located in the Bus Station in the centre of town, Shopmobility at Middlesbrough Cycle Centre loans scooters, manual wheelchairs and walkers to people with mobility needs.

Bike Library

Located within Middlesbrough Cycle Centre the bikes can be loaned free of charge and be used to partake in a range of activities to promote healthy living, social inclusion and to have fun!

Bike Academy

To provide valuable maintenance skills and support to residents of Middlesbrough, community groups and local businesses to allow ease of access to cycling and assist in making cycling a sustainable form of transport.

Walking 4 Health

Ramblers Walking for Health in Middlesbrough is aimed to encourage people of all ages and abilities to become more physically active in their local communities.

Redcar Active Travel

Redcar Active Travel Hub is a mobile service that delivers Active Travel Projects in and around the borough. The service is in place to assist people to make steps towards leading a healthier life style.

A Team - Build

To engage a group of hard to reach Men in activities designed to encourage Team Work and instil a number of life skills.

One Planet Pioneers, Talent Match

OPP is a collaboration of work between different partners, Middlesbrough Environment City (MEC), Actes Trust and Tees Valley Wildlife Trust.

Hearty Beats

Research has shown that children under 12 years of age are already exhibiting risk factors relating to heart disease, highlighting the need to provide health interventions for young people and their families at an early age.

ESOL for Life

ESOL for Life is designed to give ESOL learners and teachers free, dynamic English lessons, supported by rich media content, addressing the real-life situations and specialist vocabulary that new arrivals are likely to encounter.

My Life

As of January 2019 we are currently not taking any more referrals for the MyLife programme

Nutritional Interventions

The service we deliver is bespoke, addressing the needs of the organisation or community group we are working in partnership with.

Type 2 Diabetes, Risk Reduction

New Life New You is a community based project that helps reduce the risk of type 2 diabetes in the Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) population in Middlesbrough.

Patchwork Orchard

There are many public sites across Middlesbrough where fruit trees and fruit bushes are growing, yet the majority have not been appropriately maintained and managed and are in need of a bit of tlc.