These are also listed on the pollinator.ie biodiversity map.

No. 1, St Martha's Bridge summer flower baskets successfully attracted pollinator insects throughout summer with 100% friendly planting. In autumn, many plants were given to residents to replant at home. The winter display will last until late June. When plants 'go missing' we initially replenished with spare plants, then start removing and reducing the baskets on display. We will have a bridge clean between the winter and summer flower displays in June.

No2. The Bothar Sion grass banks continue to grow wild, although weedkiller has been discovered around street signs and lamp posts, possibly used by the council.

No3. The Bailis Downs wildflower fence line needs grass removal and reseeding if it's too Inspire residents to encourage pollinators.

No4. The Bailis Downs fruit orchard suffered vandalism and we're going to relocate the surviving trees in late autumn. The estate lawn delays cutting until late April and then participates in 'No Mow May'.

No 5. The Athlumney Hall verge was originally for fruit and hebs from St Martha's Brideg planters. More recently it has become a long grass summer meadow strip largely left to grow wild but discussions are taking place with residents to keep it more tamed with heather's or low level creepers since it has attracted litter.

No6. Former petrol station summer meadow verge continues to bear some fruit, climbers struggle, and largely it is the tall grasses that thrive and we cut along its edge.

No7. We've replanted some snapped trees along north Metges Road, and volunteers are looking after 3 dozen saplings supplied by MCC that are now potted and awaiting Autumn planting as part of our 10,000 tree project.

No8. Our 'end of the road' site continues to be wild, and residents cut the nearby lawn. We feel that a mini forest may better suit the site.

No9. Chestnut & Elm lawn summer meadow, in the Johnstown Wood estate, underwent a dramatic change. Except for the 3m perimeter cut, the 11k sqm lawn was cut possibly 3 times. Unfortunately, this is far more than the 500 sqm strip we planned to manage, and we are unsure what this season will bring. MCC is potentially providing help. The estate lawn typically delays cutting until late April and then participates in 'No Mow May'.

No10. Winter rope lights around the trucks of the avenue of trees were a great success and popular with residents and shoppers. This year, the entire line of trees had battery-timed lights from December to mid-January.

No11,12,13. Support from MCC has set us on a path to transform 100 cubic metres of street leaves into leaf mold. 12 leaf bins hold the leaves collected from the green km pavement and surroundings. We hope to introduce this to more estates and support our Community Biodiversity Action Plan for tree planting.

No13. Urban Orchard requires one replacement tree site No14. is doing well.

No15. Spire View lawn is thriving but remains largely grass, despite yellow rattle now annually appearing.

No16. Kilcarn Bridge Field is privately owned and continues to thrive.

Additional Items

With help from members of the community, and of the Lighthouse Church, the Johnstown People's Park hosted a lined running track alongside a soccer pitch that Johnstown FC used for training for the summer. Local residents helped mark out and operate a badminton court we provided the equipment.

Our lawnmower, strimmer, edger, and even the scythe, were loaned to members' for use in individual estates.

We approached and gained principal approval from SuperValu to host a Christmas Craft market. Unfortunately, we couldn't gain public liability insurance to host the event within their car park.

• The re-turn scheme has reduced pavement waste, but the food wrappers, shredded by birds, produce the most litter. We currently collect at least one black bin bag per day. 2fly fly-tippers have been reported to the authorities with both offenders being caught.

• The Green km remained election candidate plastic poster-free during the local and general elections and eliminating the need for a few hundred posters.

• Since 2021 we have manually removed pavement and cycle path weeds without the use of chemicals. Unfortunately most estates don't follow our lead and allow their contractors to do as they please because it takes far less physical effort and cost.

• Our latest biodiversity proposal is to plant 10,000 new trees within 10 years. We are currently engaging with groups to propose sites, prepare to gather local seeds/cuttings and 'grow on' potted tree saplings in residents' gardens, schools, and sports club grounds to reduce the amount needed to purchase. These trees will be used in new lawn perimeters, pavement hedges, miniforests, fruit orchards, and residential areas along the Green Km.

• Our street signage has been kept to a minimum so it doesn't become litter. Most signs on posts only stand for a week as they are targets that youths enjoy knocking down. Our signage to deter dog fouling is displayed on many lampposts and street signs.

• We continue to use collected rainwater for most of our bridge flowers, 2 water butts were rehomed to new volunteers when members moved out of the area and we maintain 1000lts for our use via 4 members houses.

• Our clover lawn trial, where a member has replaced their back garden grass lawn, continues into its second summer with early vigorous Spring growth. Hopefully it will flower early and provide positive persuasion for taking the trial into the public realm.

• Mother Nature provided some challenges this past year, with our volunteers salting icy winter paths around the schools, tree-breaking storms had us clearing branches and clearing 3 small toppled trees within the Green Km.

• In the coming days, we commence our verge edging project to improve the appearance of Metges Road, particularly near the Dublin Road.

Largely thanks to the Tus members patrolling 5 days a week, the visibility of daily litter has been greatly reduced. We continued to have the Lighthouse Church members assist with bi-monthly estate 'blitz' cleanups, with up to 40 volunteers attending.

We currently have 3 redundant roadside street signs that need removal.

Graffiti continues to appear on electrical boxes that we paint as needed, generally throughout the summer months. 3 noticeable pebble-dashed walls are proving difficult to clean and may require professional cleaners.

Our volunteers continue to maintain and enhance our neighbourhood with increased engagement, particularly with Meath County Council Departments, local schools, businesses, community groups, specialists, and the residents. We have a core group of 8, including roles of Chairperson, Secretary, and Treasurer. We have a wider membership of approx 40, representing housing areas.

We hosted our AGM, 8:30pm Tues Dec 3rd, O'Briens Pub and Restaurant, and continue to communicate regularly between members in online group messages. We are an inclusive group and accept offers of help from all walks of life, abilities, and desires to help and promote a positive community.

Our Facebook page has 1531 followers, an increase of 76 from last year. The winter path gritting is our top post with 13k views, 2nd (9k)for our winter lights, and 3rd (6k) for our Homeless Christmas appeal. Our website continues to maintain recordings of our work and progress.

3 voluntary members joined us through the Tùs Employment Activation Initiative, with each providing 19hrs week to support us with litter picking, manual weeding, graffiti cleaning, leaf collection, and helping with our outreach work. We hope another 2 will join us in the coming weeks to help restart the tree identification and mapping, wild bird identification, and other citizen science recordings.

We have promoted our group locally and raised funds via Smyths SuperValu bag pack. Members have also assisted the Navan Marathon at Claremont Stadium, church collections for the Simon Community, and participated in the Navan St Patrick's Day Parade, sponsored a local artist for a stall within the Navan summer Féile Na Bpáistí Festival.

We are in contact with TY group and the Green Team at Coláiste na Mí Secondary school to help promote youth engagement in the local community.

We also have support from C na Mi, Beaufort College, St Josephs, and Mercy secondary schools for helping the homeless and Navan Outreach.

We hope to relaunch our tree mapping program this year and will seek to engage our local secondary, primary, and Special Needs schools.

Highlights

This year we gained 3 voluntary members through the Tùs Employment Activation Initiative with each providing 19hrs week to support us with litter picking, manual weeding, graffiti cleaning, leaf collection, and helping with our outreach work. We hope another 2 will join us in the coming weeks to help restart the tree identification and mapping, wild bird identification, and other citizen science recordings.

The Lighthouse Church members have been active within our community supporting us with litter cleanups, tree planting, and graffiti removal.

The Joshua Project members were particularly helpful at Christmas time to hose the Homeless Dinner and together with Core Ireland and support from the local schools we assisted in the collection of presents for the homeless.

Members work weekly with Athboy People Who Care Share for the collection from suppliers and distribution of dozens of food hampers for the homeless.

2024/25 collaborations:

Environment Groups

• Tidy Towns

• All-Ireland Pollinator Plan

• Wild About Navan

• The Orchard's Plan B, Navan

• Community Foundation Ireland

• Finbar Damer, Ecologist.

Residents Groups

• Athlumney Abbey

• Athlumney Hall

• Athlumney Wood

• Bailis Downs

• Johnstown People’s Park

• Millbrook

• The Boyne

• The Boyne Phase 2 

• The Priory

• Spireview Lawn

• Spireview Parade

• Chestnut Court,

• Cluain Na Boinne

• Cois Glaisín

• Johnstown Wood Chestnut & Elm

• Johnstown Wood Sth Maple & Beech

• Johnstown Wood Sth Birch

• Dunville

Schools

• Colaiste na Mi, Johnstown

• Loretto Secondary School

• Beaufort College, Navan

• St Stephen's, Johnstown

• Ard Ri, Navan

• St Mary's Special School, Johnstown

Business

• Smith's SuperValu, Johnstown

• Rochfort Property Services

• O'Briens, Johnstown Village

• Taylor's of Johnstown

• Navan Hire

• Malones Toyota Navan

• Beechmount Garden Centre, Navan

• Navan Garden Centre, Kentstown

• Royal County Services Ltd, Navan

• Finnegan’s Farm

• Fresh Cut Foods 

• Chunks of Art

Charitable Organisations

• Athboy People Who Care Share

• Sleep Out Cavan

• Help Our Homeless

• Homeless Street Engagement Group

• Father McVerry Trust

• Simon Community

• CORE Ireland

• The Joshua Project

• The Lighthouse Church

Meath County Council Departments

• Environment

• PPN

• Heritage, Climate, and Biodiversity

• Community Services

• Transport and Maintenance

• Meath Litter Warden

• Navan Recycling Centre

• Tus

Press, Media, and Communication

• Navan - Communities Unite, Facebook Group

• Local residents associations, social media

• The Meath Chronicle, newspaper

• LMFM, radio station

All of the projects listed on our annotated Map reference Climate Action and Biodiversity Projects and we refer you to Map Project Description Section for the complete listing rather than repeat ourselves.

Key Highlights:

Pollution reduction, removal, and recycling:

• The re-turn scheme has reduced pavement waste,

• 2fly fly-tippers have been reported to the authorities with both offenders being caught.

• The Green km remained election candidate plastic poster-free during the local and general elections and eliminating the need for a few hundred posters.

• Manually removed 8km of pavement and cycle path weeds without the use of chemicals.

• Our street signage has been kept to a minimum so that it doesn't become litter.

• We continue to use collected rainwater for most of our bridge flowers

• Promoted No Mow May to reduce waste grass but encouraged composting where it is carried out.

• Implemented Leaf Mold bins.

All of the projects listed on our annotated Map reference Climate Action and Biodiversity Projects and we refer you to Map Project Description section for the complete listing rather than repeat ourselves.

Key Highlights:

• Long Grass Summer Meadows

• Tree Survey and new planting with the 10,000 tree goal: Urban orchard, miniforests, hedgerows.

• Wildflower areas and Pollinator-friendly displays, and the reuse of perennial plants in residents' gardens.

• Clover Lawn Trial to provide an alternative to grass for private gardens and public estate lawns.

• 100 cubic metres of street leaves held within 12 new Leaf Mold bins to support our 10,000 tree planting and reduce blocked storm drains.

• Weed removal, lawn edging without the use of chemicals, especially to prevent contamination of the River Boyne through storm drain run off.