A Community Champion is someone who works with their neighbours to improve their environment and help tackle issues. They are encouraged to decide the best way to do this with the help of Riverside. Who can become a Community Champion? Any Riverside customer. How much time will I have to put in? It depends on the needs of your area and how involved you

The Murdishaw in Bloom project picked up an award at the Royal Horticultural Society, North West in Bloom – It’s Your Neighbourhood Awards. The initiative scooped a ‘Level 2 – improving’ award for its work at the Murdishaw Community Centre garden.  Over the coming year Murdishaw in Bloom will be working in the neighbourhood to make further improvements.

Tenants have been joining Riverside staff and partner agencies for estate walkabouts in Murdishaw and Palace Fields. The general view was that the estates are looking good and landscaped areas have improved greatly over the last few years.  Grounds maintenance contractor, Assist, took note of areas for improvement such as scraping moss from pathways and removing self-seeders from shrub beds.  We also reported a number of uneven pathway issues to Halton