Press apples at the WeCanMake Hood Meet Up!

Join WeCanMake and neighbours for a Playing Out session with apple pressing and street tree mapping, and celebrate the new Neighbourhood Trades Crew on Andover Road.

The Retrofit Street programme has, over the past 18 months, brought together local residents, designers, researchers and technical experts to explore ideas on how to make changes to our homes, streets and neighbourhoods. Together we’ve been looking at how small but powerful changes to our streets and front gardens – from planting trees for shade, to adding biodiverse planting, and capturing rainwater – can improve our neighbourhoods for people and planet.

Drop by after school and roll up your sleeves to press apples from the nearby allotment, shape plans for new street trees, hear about species already growing in Knowle West, and hear more about the new Neighbourhood Trades Crew who are carrying out important retrofit work in the local area. Drinks, light refreshments and apple juice will be provided!

🗣️ Meet the neighbourhood trade crew

🍎 Turn apples into juice!

🛠️ Co-design a tree planting plan for the street

🥗 Share delicious food

The event is free and family-friendly 🙂

About WeCanMake

We'll be hosting regular community meetups every 3rd Thursday of the month! Come along and meet your neighbours, make together, and let us know what you'd like to see at future Community Meetups. Refreshments provided.

WeCanMake is a neighbourhood test-space for imagining and making new ways to create homes that build social infrastructure and community wealth. Rooted in the council-built estate of Knowle West, Bristol, we are a Community Interest Company, operate as a community land trust, and are part of art and tech collective Knowle West Media Centre.

WeCanMake has developed a new model to do housing differently, and through creative community-driven innovation. This includes creating a new supply of land for community-led homes, charting a new route through the planning system, using Modern Methods of Construction to diversify and localise the production of new homes, and creating a bottom-up approach to tracking impact and social value.

Over the coming months, WeCanMake will be running a series of workshops for other communities, neighbourhoods, and local authorities interested in adapting and adopting the model to their own context.

Interested in attending an upcoming workshop? Click here to register.

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