ParksEast

📢We've launched a new inquiry into Urban Green Spaces. We'll be looking at areas including: 🏙️ Urban environmental challenges 🌲 Green cover, air quality and flooding 🏙️Funding and initiatives Give us your views by 20th October: committees.parliament.uk/call-for-evide…

What is everyone doing as part of #LoveParksWeek to share their love and appreciation of their local parks? Might be some #volunteering, or a job you have been wanting to achieve for ages and just not got to it, join your local friends group? @KeepBritainTidy

Congratulations to all this year's 2,216 UK winners #GFA2023 Well done to all staff and volunteers. greenflagaward.org/news/2-216-par…

We want your views on exciting plans for the play area at King's Hedges Recreation Ground - we're looking to install new equipment including a wooden play fort, zip wire, trampoline, slides and rope swings. Take a look and complete our short survey: cambridge.citizenlab.co/en-GB/projects…

On Saturday 29 July, #Ipswich residents have the opportunity to help plant more than 1,600 native plants along Bundamba Creek as part of celebrations for Planet Ark’s National Tree Day. Read more: loom.ly/UOcfo-M

As #Wimbledon comes to an end, how many if you have a local park with a tennis court in it? Grass root sports are so important and should be provided by your local park. As our parks continue to be under funded & decline, access to facilities will become harder. #ourparksmatter

Less than 24 hours to go before we announce the 2023 UK winners, Good Luck to all this year's applicants #GFA2023

#LoveParks Week is a time to celebrate our green spaces, but it's also an opportunity to investigate issues like access to nature. In 2021, researchers found 70% of people in urban areas didn't have access to good quality green space, rising to 75.8% in the most deprived areas.