Projects
Our projects include everything from gardening and crafts to transport and events...
All our key projects are listed below – along with others which have now been completed.
We give details of ways to get involved via our regular newsletters. If you're interested in a particular activity you can also sign up for a WhatsApp group, to keep in touch with like-minded members.
For more details on any project, just click on the title...
Active Projects
We are encouraging people to leave their cars at home by supporting an initiative to develop a Walk & Ride Network of safe and pleasant routes for walkers, cyclists and in some cases horse riders. The aim is to link residential areas with schools, places of work, the town centre and shops – as well as existing cycle trails and footpath networks. This project is one of several initiatives led by our Sustainable Travel Group. Others include the Revolution VLR electric train trial; Buses & Boots walking and activity guides; and Moving Together, a new online platform designed to help local people find local transport solutions.
Each year we work with other organisations to decorate Buxton for the summer Festival season – putting up decorations all around the town. And it's not just for summer... we put the seasonal sparkle back for Christmas too... as well as Easter, Remembrance Day, and any other special occasions. This project is organised by the Baublers, who meet most Mondays and Tuesdays at their barn home in Harpur Hill.
Weekly work sessions on The Slopes have become a regular activity for Town Team volunteers – who meet each Thursday and Saturday during the spring and summer to take care of everything from weeding, trimming, planting, cleaning moss from stone walls, urns and railings, and painting the benches. Recently their sessions have been doubled to include numerous sites around the town too. And in 2023 the Friends of the Pavilion Gardens also became part of Buxton Town Team.
A whole-town clean-up has become an annual event for the Town Team – and everyone is welcome to bring their buckets, scrapers and join in. We split the town centre into different zones, each covered by a separate team, who clean signs, litter bins, post boxes and anything else they come across, as well as picking up litter and clearing any weeds.
Many of the group are also involved in our regular Litter Picking project
This neglected garden alongside the River Wye has been transformed thanks to volunteers who have planted flowers, cut back trees and cleared the river. They have also driven valuable initiatives such as Rewilding the River Wye. Our latest project involves raising funds to replace the Ashwood bridges, making them safe, usable and accessible to all.
Fairfield is one of the main routes into town, but it wasn't the greatest advert! So a group of local residents got together and now work to improve it by cleaning, tidying and beautifying with planters to make the area bloom.
Employees from a number of larger companies use paid 'volunteer' time off to help the Town Team with projects including repainting bridges in the Pavilion Gardens and benches on the Slopes. We even had one group with members of ten different nationalities, who gathered in Buxton for a team-building session. New ideas and volunteers are always welcome.
This is our latest project – encouraging younger Buxtonians to care for our town too. The Buxton Town Protectors Award celebrates young people who help make a difference to our community. Schools, youth groups and individuals are invited to come up with projects and, once completed, they earn a special Buxton Town Protectors badge and certificate.
AND THERE'S MORE...
That’s not all: we're always on the lookout for new projects. If you have a suggestion that fits in with Town Team objectives – or if you'd like to get involved in helping with any of our projects – we’d love to hear from you. Contact details below.
Completed Projects
Our completed projects are listed below, others are ongoing.
To read more details about any of these projects, please visit our Google Drive archive here: ARCHIVE
Buxton Regency Ball
Turner's Memorial Restoration
Buxton Means Business
Vox Pops
Winter Lights Competition
Welcome to Buxton Station
Buxton on the Move Day
Utilising Corporate Volunteer Hours
Neighbourhood Development Plan
Peak District Boundary Walk
Shop Local Scheme
Open Gardens Trail
Merchandise
Markets Regeneration
Friends of Buxton Station
Pop-Ups & Incubators
Green Man Gallery
Market Place Enhancement
Crescent Planters
Buxton BID
Buxton, Too Lovely to Litter
Buxton in Bloom
Buxton Market Revitalisation
Buxton Railings Clean
Buxton on the Move Conference
Tour of Britain
Talking Signposts
Buxton Spa Prize
Spring Clean
2020 Vision: the Buxton Conference
Artisan Market Trials
Beautifying Buxton Phase I
Buxton Illustrated Map
ATCM Town Team of the Year
Buxton Spring Fair
Big Buxton Spring Clean
One Year On
Academy of Urbanism Visit
Talking Signposts Trial
Buxton Spring Fair
Green Man Gallery
Christmas Crawl
Interested? Come and join us...