Our focus is to improve Birkenhead in ways that help people live healthy, meaningful lives. This means
creating a fair and inclusive place that supports self-care complemented by access to affordable healthy
food and an environment that promotes wellbeing through daily use.
Birkenhead’s future depends on care for its people and its shared spaces. By designing inter-generational
places, we create a town that feels safe, alive, and connected. Where loneliness fades and community
thrives. With active community leadership, Birkenhead will become a place where everyone belongs.
Caring for Birkenhead
Birkenhead faces challenges of inadequate maintenance and persistent fly-tipping, issues that must be addressed for regeneration to succeed. Community-led initiatives, such as clean-up campaigns, can tackle these issues while fostering a shared sense of purpose. Proactive measures can include designated community recycling yards in areas prone to fly-tipping, encouraging responsible disposal and pride in place. These actions support the circular economy and provide directbenefits to the community. Composting schemes and collecting aluminium cans, batteries, and other scrap metals in exchange for payment, reinforce environmental responsibility and civic engagement, funding activity for the common good.
It Happen and other Backin’ Birkenhead supporters.
Improving the quality of public spaces will also require removing obstacles and clutter from streets to create a safer, more accessible, and cohesive environment. While planters can add greenery, if they are poorly designed, badly placed, or unmaintained they become clutter and reinforce a sense of neglect.
Barcelona’s ‘Clean Up Your Face’ campaign before the 1992 Olympics successfully mobilised citizens to transform their city. A similar “Birkenhead Clean Up Your Face” campaign could build on the efforts of Make