Projects

You can filter our projects by clicking on an item from the legend below.

  • Affordable Warmth
  • Food
  • Cycle Centre
  • Horticulture
  • Active Travel
  • Youth Activities
  • Middlesbrough Food Partnership
  • Community Patchwork Orchard
  • CommUNITY Actions
  • Rooted in Nature
  • Climate Action Middlesbrough

Rooted in Nature at Ormesby Hall

Rooted in Nature is a fantastic project, supporting wellbeing for those referred to us via their GPs, by providing them with advice, care and general guidance, as well as nature-based activities and other such activities to help improve wellness.

Revised Hours for Middlesbrough Cycle Centre

Earth Day Action w/ The Friends of Arty Path

We helped to clear the area, planting native flowers & reinstating the path to its former glory, alongside The Friends of Arty Path

Climate Action Middlesbrough

Climate Action Middlesbrough (CAM) is a new programme which aims to facilitate reductions in Middlesbrough’s carbon footprint and encourage a change towards more sustainable lifestyles.

Boro Active Explorers Newsletter - April 2021

Local Eco Shops

Local Eco Shops are local pop-up shops in schools and community venues providing high-quality supermarker food for lower prices.

Boro Active Explorers

Boro Active Explorers is a collaborative project delivered in partnership by ourselves, Community Ventures and MVDA, delivering Forest School family sessions, physically-active school holiday sessions to primary age children and more.

Energy Company Obligation (ECO) Scheme

You may qualify for funding towards a replacement gas boiler, cavity wall or loft insulation.

CommUNITY Actions

Community Actions (CA) aims to build healthy, resilient lifestyles, as well as self reliance and social cohesion, within disadvantaged and less resilient communities of Middlesbrough.

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.

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.

South Tees Affordable Warmth Partnership

The South Tees Affordable Warmth Partnership is a group of organisations and charities from across Middlesbrough and Redcar and Cleveland.

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 in the UK.

Energy Advice

Struggling to pay your fuel bills? The Affordable Warmth team at Middlesbrough Environment City offers free, impartial advice and support.

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.

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.

Nutritional Interventions

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

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.