The London Parks
and Green Space Forum

LPGSF to conduct volunteering audit
Natural England has commissioned the London Parks & Green Spaces Forum to conduct an audit of volunteering that takes place in London’s parks, open spaces, canals & waterways. The survey will give a picture of the scale of volunteering across London’s green & blue spaces & will inform the development of a volunteering strategy for these spaces in London. More

Capital Growth launches £150,000 fund to help Londoners boost food growing
The Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, today launched a £150,000 fund to help Londoners grow their own food in under-used areas of the capital. He also welcomed Transport for London to the Capital Growth scheme, which is run by London Food Link and has a target to create 2,012 growing spaces by 2012 in discarded patches of London, tended by enthusiastic community gardeners. More

New TAES course dates announced
Towards an Excellent Service (TAES) for Parks and Open Spaces, is a parks specific version of the Excellence model that has helped transform the performance of cultural services and the perceptions about their impact on communities over recent years. GreenSpace has announced dates for two new courses in London on 25 January and 15-16 February. More

LPGSF supporting launch of capital's new Friends network
LPGSF is supporting the launch of London Green Spaces Friends Groups Network, a new forum vowing to work together to value, protect and improve the capital's parks and open spaces. More

Help a London Park Scheme wins prestigious award Congratulations was given to the GLA for it’s work on the Help a London Park Scheme at this year’s PR Week awards. Noted as an example of ‘outstanding and innovative, highly creative public relations’, the Puublic Sector Campaign of the Year Award was presented to Hilary Merrett and Nicola Dillon on 20 October at Grosvenor House.

Park Life video launches World Cup bid
Organisers of London's bid to be a host city for the 2018 World Cup have launched a video entitled Park Life. The Park Life theme is integral to London’s bid and is designed to play heavily on the tradition of the classic kick-around enjoyed by young children and adults throughout their lives in over 3000 London parks and open spaces. More