Events
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Getting the community involved in the plans for our area!
The future of Carrington Moss is in YOUR hands
Online Public Meeting 26th March 6pm
You can join our online public meeting by clicking on this link
Join our online public meeting on 26th March at 6pm for an update on the various issues we are pursuing. We will particularly be focusing on our response to the Carrington Relief Road planning application.
Many people have raised concerns with us about the current activities being carried out on the moss. Whilst some of these are legitimate and do meet the terms of the approvals given by Trafford, we’d like to check out all your observations, so do keep sending your photographs and letting us know what those you talk to tell you.
The meeting will also include our 200 Club draw, so if you have not yet joined (or renewed), please do so as soon as possible. You will find all the details on our website here. As our 200 Club helps us to fund our legal and expert advice, we would welcome more members, so please do share the details with family and friends. It is just £22 for a year’s subscription (less than £2 per month) and you will have the chance of winning one of 3 cash prizes each month for the 12 month period. The more people who join the 200 Club, the higher the prize money (so worth encouraging everyone you know to participate).
Do ask friends and family to sign up to our 200 Club as well.
We hope you will consider joining, spreading the word and look forward to seeing you at our next meeting.
Day of Action – Save the Date – 18th April 2026
Across the country, communities are becoming increasingly concerned about the loss of nature, the decline of local green spaces, and the pressures facing our parks, rivers, woodlands and wildlife. These places are essential to our wellbeing, our resilience, and our sense of belonging – just like our very own Carrington Moss.
Yet they are too often dismissed in local, regional and national decision making, as we have seen with the proposals for New Carrington, in which Trafford has subordinated the Natural Infrastructure Strategy, excluding it from the Masterplan infrastructure and contributions calculations and only considering natural capital assets and ecosystem services over a year after other infrastructure has been scrutinised.
We will be supporting the Community Planning Alliance Day of Action for Nature, Parks and Green Spaces on 18th April, when communities across the UK will be demonstrating that people everywhere care deeply about the natural world and want to see it protected and restored.
Around 100 groups will be joining colleagues from the National Federation of Parks and Green Spaces, the Badger Trust, the Bat Conservation Trust and the CIEEM (Chartered Institute of Ecology and Environmental Management) in a non‑partisan, community‑led initiative. It is not aligned with any political party or any other campaign. Its aim is to show decision‑makers that nature matters to the electorate — and that safeguarding green spaces is a shared national priority.
We will be walking along the public rights of way across the moss on the day and hope to have a couple of starting points, one in Sale West (at the amphitheatre) and one in Partington (Heath Farm Lane), so we can converge at the Birch Road crossroads with Ashton Road (near the Manchester United Training Ground). This also means that those who are not as mobile as others can come down Isherwood Road and meet with us there too (we’ll confirm the timing in the next newsletter). So, look out for more information on our website and on social media and encourage friends and family to come along. We’ve invited some nature experts to join us in case there are any questions about the flora and fauna we’ll be seeing on our walk.
Find out more about the Planning Ecosystem here and here.
Our Sponsored Silence
We’ll also be promoting our Sponsored Silence, which we hope will get younger people involved in our fundraising to help pay for the professional, legal and expert advice we will need when we make our case to save Carrington Moss over the coming months. We are asking our young supporters to help us by joining our sponsored silence in recognition of the species that will be impacted by the proposed development in this area.
Why is this important? Well Carrington Moss is currently home to more than 20 red listed birds and a number of endangered wildlife species. If construction is approved on this ecology-rich habitat, the voices of all those birds and wildlife will disappear. They will be silenced in this area forever.
To find out more, take a look at this video on our Youtube channel.
Want to help us?
We think that, for very young children an hour can seem like a long time to stay quiet, but perhaps older children could do a little longer (maybe 2 hours). If YOUR children want to be involved, let them set a challenging but achievable target that you can help them to succeed with.
Adults can join in as well, of course, but we hope they will set themselves a stretching target that fits their circumstances (although maybe it will suit you not to have to talk to anyone for the day)!
Thank you for participating.
Don’t forget to record your wildlife sightings!
FOCM Public Meetings:
We host a public meeting once a month on or around 28th (to coincide with our 200 Club draw). We use these meetings to share our proposals and hear your suggestions, we sometimes invite external speakers to join us too, so look out for the information in our newsletters.
When we record our meetings, the videos are available on our Youtube channel.
Many people have used various types of virtual meeting over the past few months but if you feel you need help to get connected for our meetings, don’t hesitate to let us know.
Have a little sing song whist you are taking a look at the wonderful sights of Carrington Moss.
If you have not yet seen the wonderful video showing local residents singing the Carrington Moss song, take a look on our youtube channel at this link (please subscribe to our channel so you find out about our new videos as soon as they are released).
Record your wildlife sightings on Carrington Moss
Many of you are using Carrington Moss as part of your daily exercise routine and whilst you are out an about, you are highly likely to see lots of birds, insects, other wildlife and plants in this rich, nature-filled environment.
We’d like as many of you as possible to record your sightings to help confirm just how important the area is to endangered and at-risk species.
Friends of Carrington Moss 
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