There are many ways to make your community greener from litter picks to community gardens. This can help to create a cleaner and healthier environment and encourage interaction and sharing knowledge.

Greening your environment: Case studies

Below are some case studies of green initiatives in South Cambridgeshire as well as grants available to assist these projects.

• Marmalade Lane is Cambridge's very first co-housing project where homes have been specifically built to suit the needs of residents choosing to live in a safe and spacious community. Marmalade Lane consists of 30 houses and 12 flats, all energy-efficient timber-frame properties priced from £255,000 to £535,000 with an eco-friendly approach in mind, they are thermally efficient and airtight and a single house can be erected in just 2 days.
• Cambridge Sustainable Food is an innovative and growing partnership of public, private and community organisations in Cambridge and the surrounding villages who work with each other to promote a vibrant local food system, all along the supply chain and into our community. They also campaign to achieve healthy and sustainable food for everyone. 
• 2G3S (Green Groups in the Shelfords, Stapleford and Sawston) is a non party-political group to promote green activity in our local villages and to share green ideas. They hold planning and discussion meetings every 6 weeks and put on events. 

Help with environmental issues

You can: 

• apply for a grant to kickstart your new project or expand your existing project
• report fly-tipping and litter to help keep your community clean 
• organise a litter pick 

• Supporting communities to create low carbon neighbourhood plans