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HELP A LONDON PARK

Your park needs you.... Ten London parks are about to benefit from a major makeover and one of them could be a park near you.

The Mayor of London is giving ten grants of up to £400,000 to London's most needy parks to make them cleaner, safer, greener, and nicer places to visit. Londoners are now invited to vote for which parks win an award. Follow this link to vote

Pimp your Park: July 2008
A number of parks across the UK are set to share in more than £11million which will help to transform and regenerate these greatly valued community spaces. The Parks’ bonanza coincides with the Postcard from the Park photography competition encouraging people to capture images showing what they love most about their public park. (Prize £1,000 in Jessops vouchers, closing date 1st August 2008.)

The Greater London Authority are coordinating a project titled Wild london, Open London aiming to improve access  to London’s parks and green spaces. For more information come back soon after the main findings of the initial research are published and an outline framework agreed for making the access improvements.

Maps to discover hidden gems in Royal Parks: July 2008
The Royal Parks Agency has recently invested in new mapping to help improve how we walk and enjoy our Parks in central London. The new mapping is featured in the new Department for Transport Mapping guidance documents prepared by Walk England and will be used to help launch Walk England on 18th June in Richmond Park.

Mark Camley, CEO of The Royal Parks said: "We hope these new maps will help visitors to discover hidden corners of the Royal Parks, and encourage more people to include a walk through the Parks as part of their regular journey."

There will be a new map developed for each Royal Park, click here to see the ones completed so far.


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