Groundwork Manchester Salford and Trafford have been working hard to raise the awareness of Moston Vale and its development potential. This has been done through a series of Manchester City Council Housing department consultation drop-ins, as well as doorknocking at properties adjacent to the site.

The ‘Moston Moo’ was designed with a local artist and the young people of Moston Youth Centre, to show their thoughts and ideas about the current and future use of the Vale, and Moston in general. It was part of the City’s CowParade Manchester 2004, and has been donated back to Sure Start in Harpurhey.

Burgess Primary School pupils have been out and about taking a photographic inventory of the site, and producing maps from these. We are hoping that other local schools will be able to utilise the fieldwork potential of the Vale over the coming years.

Groundwork, in partnership with UKOnline, the Harpurhey Neighbourhood Project, and Moston Valley Residents Association, are also running a local history project, to encourage the older residents to tell us their interesting stories of growing up in Moston. We are hoping to present this historical information on boards around the site, as well as in a display at the Harpurhey Neighbourhood Project. This will form part of a larger body of historical research about the whole of the Irk Valley.

The highly successful Community Launch event for improvements to Moston Vale coincided with the end of the Irk Walk on July 2nd 2006. A programme of events on site is being developed in conjunction with the local community, and will be run by Groundwork Manchester Salford and Trafford

A successful photography project engaging 9 young people and based around Moston Vale took place in May 2007