Who are Civic Pride Rossendale?

We’re a band of volunteers determined to make Rossendale a better place to live and work. We maintain a range of public spaces and community garden areas, and with a dedicated team of litter-pickers and secret gardeners, we truly pride ourselves on making the place we live cleaner and greener!

Civic Pride Rossendale operates throughout the areas of Rawtenstall, Waterfoot and Crawshawbooth. The Haslingden and Helmshore areas are covered by their own dedicated group, details of which you can find here: Haslingden and Helmshore Civic Pride. For the Bacup area see the Bacup Pride Facebook pages.
 

Civic Pride Rossendale are entering the RHS North West in Bloom competition in 2025. A number of gardens will be entering into the Its your neighbourhood competition and Sparrow Park is entering the Pocket Park category. We are hoping for great success again.

We have also entered, for the first time, the National Open Garden scheme. This scheme asks keen gardeners to open up their gardens and invite the public to view them, for a small entry charge. Last year the scheme raised £3,501,227. Which was divided between a number of health and gardening charities across the country.

We are welcoming visitors to our gardens starting at Sparrow Park / Library gardens Rawtenstall on Saturday the 26th and Sunday the 26th of July 2025 from 1pm-5pm. Please make a note in your diaries to come along.

More information about the scheme is here or for the North-West, details are here.

Driven by volunteers

Over the last few years, Civic Pride Rossendale has and continues to play a major part in maintaining a litter free and increasingly green town but there’s still much to do.

None of this would be possible without the help both in time and money given so freely by our volunteers.  However, as with any organisation we always need more, so please come forward and help us in our quest for a cleaner greener place to live, work or run a business.