Community Green Space Grants 2019
In January 2019, the Mayor awarded £1.27 million to 78 community projects to help them improve and create green spaces across the capital. The majority of these projects are now complete.
29 of the projects involve greening school playgrounds to reduce children's exposure to air pollution. Others include designing new community gardens, improving parks and cleaning up waterways. Across all projects, 65 hectares of green and blue space will be improved.
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London Tails of Amphibian Discovery (T.O.A.D.)
Froglife received £49,592 for a project to support London's common toads across several including Ruskin Park in Lambeth, Lesnes Abbey in Bexley, Trent Park in Enfield, Fryent Park in Brent and five sites in Ealing.
This included creating and restoring ponds, and installing a toad crossing, and a nature trail connecting five different sites in Ealing. 8,000 people took part through volunteer days, and "T.O.A.D. Shows", including 4,000 children. The project will continue with ongoing funding from the National Lottery Heritage Fund.
The activities undertaken in our sites as part of the project, including improvements to the ponds in Ruskin Park as well as new information trails in other locations, have had a visible impact upon protecting and enhancing habitats not just for common toads but other wildlife species too. The commitment and professional expertise of the Froglife staff and volunteers involved in the project has been exceptional.
Dr Iain Bolton, London Borough of Lambeth
Capital Orchard City
The Orchard Project received £13,550 to create three new community orchards at Christ Church Primary School in Greenwich, St John's Community Garden in Croydon, and St Mungo's sites in Haringey.
The sites will be managed by local volunteers, who have attended orchard leader training. Over 80 people took part in the project, ranging from school students to St Mungo's residents.
We love the fact that once planted carefully with close supervision, The Orchard Project returns to check on its trees to ensure aftercare is thorough. As our on-site coordinator, Lewis has been amazing! He has a collaborative approach to teaching and engaging our community, young and old, and has instilled a sense of love and wonder for the humble fruit tree in the most urbanised of children.
Fiona Harrison, project lead, Christ Church School Community Garden
Greening the Regents – Building a Green Network Initiative
Lower Regents Coalition, working in partnership with a range of organisations, received £20,000 to install floating planters at two sites on the Regents Canal in Tower Hamlets and Hackney.
The planting helped to create a green corridor along the canal, provide a home for wildlife and improve water quality. 75 people were involved as volunteers, and the group have also shared their knowledge with others wanting to improve the canal.
My time as a part of the Lower Regents Coalition has made me feel like a value part of the local community. Working alongside fellow, friendly volunteers, I also learned more about local vegetation and the canal itself than I could've been taught in any other environment
Joanne, project volunteer
Barking Well and Wild
Company Drinks, working in partnership with London Borough of Barking & Dagenham, received £14,500 to create a new people focused green space on a disused bowling green in Barking Park.
Well and Wild has transformed an amenity lawn into a productive community growing space with a regular programme of "Grow Club" participatory events, including for vulnerable local people. Over 1000 people have taken part in the project.
I've been a member of the Grow Club since it began. I really emjoy it; it makes me feel happy. I find there's something really rewarding and satisfying about tending to the plants, sowing seeds, planting bulbs and seeing them grow [...] When there all my stress and problems melt away for a while and I can get things back into perspective. It feels like a little holiday each week, its done my mental health the world of good.
Anthony, project volunteer
A Place of Possibilities: Hampden Way Community Garden
Hampden Way Nursery School received £15,438 to create a community garden for children aged 0-5 in an unused space in front of the school in East Barnet.
The space is being used for weekly forest school sessions, and will be opened up free of charge for other local groups.
I run weekly forest school stay and play sessions in the community garden at Hampden Way. The newly designed space has been a huge success. The families have celebrated this by bringing friends and extended family members to the sessions.
Naomi Hinshelwood, Forest School Lead
Learning from Nature
The Harington Scheme, working in partnership with Cricklewood Millennium Green Trust, Claremont Primary School, Mapledown School and Lansdowne Care Home, received £17,660 to enrich Cricklewood Millennium Green.
The project planted native wildflowers, hedging, new seating and a nature trail. It was delivered by young people with learning difficulties, supporting their progression towards employment. The Harington Scheme is launching a new supported internship programme on the back of this pilot project.
SPS Greener Spaces
Salusbury Primary School received £8,310 to create a new garden at their school in Queen's Park. The garden includes a dense and varied planting scheme to improve air quality and bring health benefits to the whole school and wider community. 35 adults and all 600 school pupils were involved in the project.
I love digging and putting plants in new beds so I enjoyed the activity days. I can't wait to see everything grow up
Year 5 pupil, Salusbury Primary School
Story Garden
Global Generation, working in partnership with the British Library, received £35,000 to create a new community garden in Somers Town.
The project was involved the local community through twilight gardening sessions, with growing beds reserved for residents. Over 500 corporate and local volunteers have helped to build the garden.
It feels like it's home with you all. As a family we have learnt so much through gardening and activities using natural materials. My children have grown in confidence and tried new things for the very first time and so have I!
Ravea, local resident
St. Pancras Parish Church Gardens
London Borough of Camden, working in partnership with St Pancras Parish Church and St Pancras Lands Trust, received £13,500 to create community garden at St Pancras Church in Euston. The project has transformed the churchyard into a tranquil resting place for the diverse local community.
Falcon Courtyard
Neu Architects, working in partnership with Falcon Residents, has been awarded £5,000 to help green Falcon Coutyard on the Tybalds Estate, Camden. The project will create a green space where residents can work, relax and play.
Restoration of Constable's Branch Hill Pond
Redington Frognal Neighbourhood Forum and Redington Frognal Association, received £10,000 towards the restoration of a pond at Branch Hill in Hampstead, Camden.
The pond will restore a habitat for wildlife as part of the daylighting of the lost rivers of Frognal and Fitzjohn's.
A Greener Future for Trent Park
Thames21, working in partnership with the London Borough of Enfield, Friends of Trent Park, Froglife and London Orienteering Klubb, received £30,000 for natural flood management at Trent Park and Enfield Chase.
Over 150 volunteers took part in the project, which included planting over 2000 trees, creating leaky dams to slow the flow of water in Salmons Brook, and creating new ponds that will act as rural sustainable drainage features. The project aligns with the wider Salmon's Brook Natural Flood Management and Enfield Chase Restoration programmes.
The work that Thames21 are doing in the Salmon's Brook is amazing and meeting the needs of people and nature now and in the future
Lizzie, project volunteer
Metro Orchards
METRO Charity received £15,000 to transform part of a derelict, fly-tipped allotment site in Eltham.
The project has created a multipurpose venue for food education, therapeutic gardening and nature. 58 people including METRO service users have taken part, with regular volunteer days. The project is being extended into 2020.
Without doubt this is what service users need. Talking & group therapies have their place but nature is really, in my mind, the best tonic. I have experienced nothing but positivity from our guests this last year, all have commented how great it is to get outside in the fresh air and get stuck in to the days’ activity.
METRO Charity Project Manager
Greening Gayhurst Appleby Middleton Neighbourhood
London Borough of Hackney, working in partnership with local community groups, has been awarded £50,000 to green the streets between London Fields and Stonebridge Gardens. The project will plant trees, create a natural play area, and install sustainable drainage.
Clapton Common Community Garden
Clapton Commons Community Association received £17,500 to create a community garden around the Liberty Hall - the newly redeveloped village hall and community centre - on Clapton Common. The garden has been developed with the community and will be accesible to all, providing space for people to learn and share horticultural skills. The project has revitalised a previously abandoned and overgrown green space, with a new gardening volunteer group established.
During the summer of 2020 I volunteered at Liberty Hall where I helped with the planting and subsequent watering. For me this was an opportunity to escpae the working-from-home world of COVID lockdown, meet new people and participate in an energeyic community-led programme.
Harry, project volunteer.
Community Garden @ Wentworth Nursery School
Wentworth Nursery School and Children's Centre received £7,500 to create a community garden at their site in Homerton.
The garden includes new trees, planting and play areas, as well as improvements to the existing pond and a green roof.
The new garden is a wonderful gift, the children are connecting with nature and becoming more energetic, creative and joyful - literally "getting their hands dirty"- as well as starting to internalise a love of our green spaces and our environment.
School gardener, Wentworth Nursery School
Wormholt Park Improvement Project
Friends of Wormholt Park, working in partnership with Hammersmith Community Gardens Association, London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham, and Wormholt Residents Association, received £5,000 to improve Wormholt Park in Shepherd's Bush.
The project included planting trees, creating a meadow, and new planting to support local wildlife. Over 400 people including 193 children took part in the project, which has strengthened the friends group and connections within the community.
Aspen Gardens Green Space
Aspen Gardens TRA, working in partnership with London Borough of Hammersmith & Fulham, and Groundwork London, has been awarded £19,000 to create a community garden at Aspen Gardens Estate in Hammersmith. The project will make the only green space on the estate useable and tackle air and noise pollution from the nearby Hammersmith Flyover.
Wood Green Library Garden
Future Wood Green, working in partnership with Grow N22, has been awarded £20,770 to create a new community garden outside Wood Green Library. The project will improve an area of derelict planters and include sustainable drainage, seating and platform space.
Holy Trinity CE Primary School Garden
Holy Trinity CE Primary School received £19,414 to create a garden at the school in Tottenham.
The project has created a natural environment for play and learning, with a focus on creating shade and improving air quality.
Greening Tottenham Lock
Stonebridge Lock Coalition, working in partnership with Canal and River Trust, Moo Canoes and Thames21, received £20,000 to improve the Lee Navigation at Tottenham Lock.
The project installed floating reedbeds to improve water quality and provide wildlife habitat, as well as holding canoe-based litterpicks and healthy rivers outreach days. 96 volunteers took part, including students from Waltham Forest College.
I have volunteered for every event of the Tottenham Floating Reedbed Project, it has been fun and life-reaffirming meeting all the other people who’ve volunteered to improve the Lee Navigation for wildlife. It has given me a great sense of satisfaction and achievement to have taken part in this project – seeing all the insects in the reedbed plants and the curiosity and attention paid by the swans when we installed the reedbeds made it all worthwhile
Sue, project volunteer, Stonebridge Lock Coalition
Methuen Close Pocket Park
The London Borough of Harrow has been awarded £19,200 to create a pocket park at Methuen Close, Edgware. The project will transform an underused green space for local residents and wildlife.
Elephant Park: Creation of Wetland Habitats
London Borough of Hillingdon, working in partnership with Woodlarks and Waders, received £39,765 to create new wetland habitats in Elephant Park in North Hillingdon.
The ponds and ditches, and new native wetland planting have created space for wildlife, and will help to reduce flood risk and improve the look and feel of the park.
I came across the activity in Elephant Park one pleasant day last spring, and have been involved since then. I'm very pleased that the 'disused' section of the park is being made safe and opened up to residents and I look forward to watching the expanding wildlife populations as the new ponds are colonised."
Jane, project volunteer
Caledonian Park Woodland Amphitheatre
Caledonian Park Friends Group, working in partnership with London Borough of Islington, has been awarded £6,000 to improve an area of woodland in Caledonian Park. The project will create an amphitheatre, outdoor classroom, loggery and natural play area.
Market Road Wild and Green Nature Garden
Octopus Community Network, working in partnership with London Borough of Islington, Hayward Adventure Playground and Holloway School, received £15,229 to renovate a section of Market Road Gardens.
The project involved volunteers including children and young people with special educational needs in transforming an underused part of the park into a woodland nature garden, with a community orchard, meadow and hedgerow. As a result of the project new monthly volunteering sessions are being held in the park.
The gardening trips are really important to me. I feel much better for spending time working outside. I am worried about environmental damage and climate change and I want to do something positive like this to help.
Angel, student, Beacon High School
Community Kitchen Garden & Wildlife Planter Project
Friends of Wray Crescent Open Space, working in partnership with London Borough of Islington, received £6,291 to create a community kitchen garden at Wray Crescent in Stroud Green.
The project has installed raised food-growing beds and tiered beds of shrubs and floral plants. As a result, the friends group has increased its membership and created a focal point in the park, which won 2nd place in its category in the 2019 Islington in Bloom competition.
I love that my park has a community garden. It brings the neighbourhood together. We meet on Saturdays to hold workshops. I have lived here for 3 years and have met more neighbours since summer than the whole time I have lived here! It has created an “oasis” from big city stress and an opportunity for children to see vegetables growing next to their playground. There is always something new happening. Living in a city can make a person feel disconnected, this garden provides a “nature” break as well as a sense of community!
Georgina, project volunteer
Holland Park West Woodland Restoration Project
Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, working in partnership with the Friends of Holland Park, received £10,985 to restore an area of woodland in Holland Park.
The project has included creating a small area dedicated to outdoor learning, creating new paths and dead hedges, creating openings in the canopy and planting native trees - including with television presenter Ben Fogle! 348 volunteers took part.
Our group of volunteers met once a month to work on this great project. The idea of improving this woodland, while preparing it for educating children about nature, motivated us. A group of regular and committed volunteers has now formed
Richard, project volunteer
Hogsmill Open Space Nature Trail
Sustrans, working in partnership with Malden Manor Community Group and Lower Mole Partnership, received £15,000 to create a nature trail at Hogsmill Open Space in Kingston.
The trail was created collaboratively with the community, local ecologists, artists and 250 school children. It aims to activate an underused green space and make it more accessible and attractive to local people.
There are lots more people walking in the area since the nature trail has gone in...and you do get comments about how clean and well looked-after the area is looking...I have had people say to me that they really appreciate everything that everyone is doing"
Linda, Malden Manor Community Group
Cornwall Road Greenway
WeAreWaterloo received £16,666 to green the area around Cornwall Road in Waterloo, highlighting the road as a clean air walking route.
The project included removing 100 square metres of paved surface, and is part of the wider Waterloo Greenways project.
Slade Gardens Rejuvenation
Urban Growth Learning Gardens, working in partnership with Slade Gardens Community Play Association, received £19,013 to rejuvenate the garden of a popular adventure playground at Slade Gardens in Brixton.
The project created new raised beds, a wildlife pond and a natural play area, as well as establishing an edible playground. 651 people, including over 400 children took part in the project through volunteer sessions, workshops and events.
Our girls absolutely loved their sessions at Slade Gardens. They all said they enjoyed it so much and learnt a lot about gardening, food growing and environment awareness. They were all inspired to try and grow their own plants at home
Baytree Centre
Ruskin Park Wildlife Area
Friends of Ruskin Park, working in partnership with London Borough of Lambeth received £10,305 to revitalise the wildlife area in Ruskin Park, Denmark Hill.
The improvements included creating new entrances, relocating struggling fruit trees, creating scrapes for wildlife, adding seating and pond dipping platform and new signage. 172 people including over 100 children were involved in the project.
Brockwell Park Perennial Meadow and Natural Play Space
London Borough of Lambeth received £19,446 to remove tarmac to create a wildflower meadow in Brockwell Park, Herne Hill.
The project created an informal play area and bee hotels, and planted pollen producing shrubs and flowers, as well as new trees. 420 square metres of tarmac was removed and replace by green space.
The Brockwell Park Meadow Project provided a fantastic outdoor learning opportunity for Lambeth school children to engage with nature and learn about habitats. In order to engage local pupils with the Meadow Project, ninety Y2 pupils from three local schools were invited to curriculum linked workshops at the Brockwell Park site and Brockwell Greenhouses Community Garden.
Helen Cherry, Brockwell Park Community Greenhouses
Wildlife for Waterloo
Bankside Open Spaces Trust received £15,300 to improve Waterloo Millennium Green. The project enhanced the existing water feature with new planting and created a nature trail, with over 300 people involved in volunteering and engagement events.
The project has helped the site secure a Community Green Flag award, and the number of visitors more than doubled during 2019.
It is great to see more plants and flowers in the park. Before, Waterloo Green was very bare. We have more interesting gardening and maintenance to carry out and I am now proud of the park I volunteer in
Project volunteer
Greenhouse Renovate
Brockwell Park Community Greenhouses received £10,297 to improve their growing space in Brockwell Park in Herne Hill, Lambeth.
The greenhouse renovation has provided more space for schools, volunteers and workshops to learn about nature and gardening. 180 volunteers took part, and the renovated greenhouse has already been used by over 200 people.
Greening up Archbishop’s Park
Friends of Archbishop's Park, working in partnership with Roots and Shoots, NHS South London & Maudsley, and Ethelred's Nursery School and Children's Centre, received £19,902 to create an educational garden at Archbishop's Park in Lambeth.
The project also upgraded the existing classroom facade and wildlife area, and attracted many additional volunteers, with over 280 people taking part.
I’ve been coming here for 2 years now and this space is calm and peaceful. It helps me feel calm and better in myself as I live alone and can get down. I’m helping with the summer meadow, I’m not a great gardener and need help, but the people here are kind and patient.
Project volunteer
Woody Community Forest
Woodmansterne School received £1,874 to turn an unused section of their playing field in Streatham into a forest school area.
Children, staff and parents planted new trees, bulbs and wildlowers, with all 900 school students taking part.
When we found out about the Woody Community Forest planting day, both my kids were really keen to go along and help out. My son has been lucky enough to be involved in the forest school, which has been incredibly beneficial to him. It was a great, productive morning and such a great scheme for the school to be involved in. They are both excited to watch the space evolve and develop.
Lucy, Woodmansterne School parent
Evelyn 200
DeptfordFolk, working in partnership with London Borough of Lewisham, Civic Trees and Lewisham Homes, received £19,500 to plant 70 trees around North Deptford.
These new trees were planted in Pepys Park and across local housing estates as part of Deptford Folk's Evelyn200 project to plant 200 trees across the Evelyn Ward.
Healthy Living and Learning at North Beckton Primary School
North Beckton Primary School, working in partnership with Trees for Cities, received £15,000 to create an edible playground at the school in Beckton.
The new growing beds will enable the students to grow their own fruit and vegetables and play more outdoors. All 600 children at the school took part in the project.
It has been great to have helped design and then create this outdoor learning classroom. We can’t wait to get outside more often and learn about nature.
Year 5 student, North Beckton Primary School
Mini Grass Routes
Royal Docks Learning & Activity Centre received £17,477 to transform a derelict green space in North Woolwich into a well-loved community garden. The project kickstarted a plan to create connections between six local green spaces, and fifteen young people received accredited training whilst helping to deliver the project, whilst over 300 volunteers took part.
It's lovely to see the children enjoying throwing seed bombs and getting their hands dirty, and of course all the bees, hopping from plant to plant
Mo Parker, volunteer gardener
Lewes House Blue & Green Roofs
London Borough of Southwark, working in partnership with Team London Bridge, Lewes House Estate Management and AECOM, has been awarded £30,000 to install sustainable drainage at Lewes House Estate in London Bridge. The project will include green and blue roofs, trees and new planters.
Biodiversity Improvements at Russia Dock Woodland
The Conservation Volunteers, working in partnership with Friends of Russia Dock Woodland and London Borough of Southwark, has been awarded £5,787 to improve the wildlife value of Russia Dock Woodland in Rotherhithe.
The project included clearing invasive vegetation,coppicing, improving play areas, restoring ponds, planting hedgerows and creating wildflower meadows. Over 500 volunteers took part.
Bermondsey Community Gardens
Bermondsey Community Kitchen received £12,500 to create community gardens at six housing estates in South Bermondsey.
The gardens include raised vegetable growing beds, flower planters and mini apple orchards, with residents helping to shape the designs and taking part in planting and growing.
I received a paper through my letter box from Bermondsey Community Kitchen asking if I wanted to grow any vegetables on my estate. I asked them for help and they built me a raised vegetable bed and as I have filled it with vegetables so I have asked them for another two beds so that I can grow more. I am now speaking with other residents through the project, which I had never spoken with before. I really appreciate all the hard work they have put into our community.
Mr Khan, local resident
Isle of Dogs Community Gardens
Seeds for Growth, working in partnership with local communities, received £20,000 to create two community gardens at housing estates in the Isle of Dogs, Tower Hamlets.
The gardens include growing space, children's play areas and an orchard and were developed in consultation with residents. Over 100 volunteers took part in the project.
It's wonderful that my two older children can play, safely and securely, in the new garden. When it gets warmer I look forward to planting flowering plants and vegetables for us all to eat and enjoy
Zara, local resident
Stoneydown Park Expansion
what if: projects, working in partnership with the London Borough of Waltham Forest, recieved £26,006 to expand Stoneydown Park on Blackhorse Road, Walthamstow.
The new area of the park will includes a play space, meadow, new trees and seating, as well as a remodelled entrance. 220 square metres of new green space has been created, which will be maintained by Friends of Stoneydown Park alongside the council.
We're excited about the improvements so far and it's been such a great project to see a neglected piece of land being incorporated into our much-loved community space
John Greenhaigh, Friends of Stoneydown Park
Greener Greenway
Friends of Greenway Avenue Community Play Garden received £5,000 to improve their community garden in Walthamstow.
The project has enhanced food growing space including a greenhouse, created a new pond, and improved access. This has enabled more schools to use the space, and new connections have been formed with other local community spaces.
I have really enjoyed being able to use our new greenhouse; it is an impressive addition to the Community Garden. It has enabled us to develop our use of seed propagation for crops to harvest for members of the garden community and visitors. It has also helped involve members and visitors with hands-on planting and nurturing during storms and health issues which would have stopped them
Loraine, project volunteer
Linear Park: Sensory Gardens
Matter Architecture, working in partnership with London Borough of Waltham Forest and TCV, received £20,000 to create sensory gardens at Linear Park in Leytonstone.
The project was developed with local residents, and has fostered the creation of the Friends of Linear Park. Local school children also helped to design and plant the new space.
Greening, Growing and Gaining
Chestnut Grove Academy has been awarded £28,757 to green their school grounds in Balham, Wandsworth. The project has created habitat for wildlife, planted 60 trees, and installed a green roofed canopy. Both students and local residents took part in volunteer planting days, with a new student gardening club now looking after the site.
We have learnt how to care for plants including how to plant them, thinking about whether they like the sun or shade, and keeping them watered. We also learned how to plant tree saplings and protect them which is something that none of us had done before.
Isabel, student
Planting Healthy Air in Schools
Trees for Cities, working in partnership with Mapping for Change, received £50,000 to support three primary schools across London to green their school playgrounds: Woolmore Primary School in Tower Hamlets, Christ Church Bentick School in Westminster, and Tudor Primary School in Barnet.
The project was part of the Planting Healthy Air programme, and created new green spaces, planted trees and installed ivy screens, and followed a whole school approach to consult with and engage students and staff. Students have also taken part in citizen science lessons, learning how to monitor air pollution. Over 1,000 children took part in the project.
Thank you to everyone for giving our playground an incredible face-lift - its beyond what we could have wished for and we can't wait to start using the new areas
Tracey Argent, Headteacher, Woolmore Primary School
Clean Air Green Screens
Wessex Gardens Primary School received £16,767 to install a green screen alongside the school playground in Brent Cross.
The screens will help reduce children's exposure to air pollution from the adjacent major road, and have added greenery to a concrete playground.
I cannot overstate the immediate impact the screens had on our environment. The arrival of a huge bank of bright green living vegetation had an immediate effect on everyone who saw it the screen will have a positive impact on our wellbeing as well as reducing noise and air pollution
Alexander Banks, Headteacher
Green Screens CSG
Camden School for Girls received £8,400 to install an ivy and jasmine screen along the perimeter fence of the school. The screen will help reduce students' exposure to air pollution, following on from monitoring carried out by pupils.
480 young people took part in the project, and the school plan to instal picnic tables in the area now sheltered by the screens.
The planting of green screens around the perimeter of the school has been transformational. They assist with filtering out pollution from the many cars, lorries and buses that travel up and down Camden Road throughout the day, and they have made the school more secluded and private
Elizabeth Kitcatt, Headteacher
Christopher Hatton Green Playground
Christopher Hatton Primary School received £7,500 to install greenery around the perimeter of the playground in Clerkenwell.
The project will help to reduce children's exposure to air pollution in the playground, and 180 pupils took part in planting events.
We love our new plants because the bees come and pollinate them and they look pretty. The flowers like lavender smell nice
Year 2 pupils
Green Screens for Playground
Gospel Oak Primary School has received £14,990 to install green screens along the front of the school. The screens will help to reduce children's exposure to air pollution from the busy neighbouring road.
Perimeters
Netley Primary School received £5,000 to green the perimeter of the school. The greening measures will help to reduce children's exposure to air pollution, and school pupils helped to design the planting scheme.
Invicta Green Card
Invicta Primary School received £9,500 to green the school in Vanbrugh Park. This first phase of the project installed a green ivy screen alongside the front of the school, and is now continuing with fruit tree planting and a wildflower meadow.
Over 470 children were involved in the project, which also raised funding from local residents and businesses.
Queensbridge Oasis
Queensbridge Primary School received £48,246 to create three green spaces in the school playground in Haggerston. The project turned 500 square metres from grey to green including a bog garden, an edible playground and a green ivy screen.
150 adults and 500 children were involved in the project, and the school is now fundraising to complete the transformation of the playground into an oasis for natural play and learning.
The edible garden and bog garden are a vital resource for teachers and pupils to be able to experience a slice of nature in the middle of London...it provides an enriching experience which supports our teaching not just of science, but in wellbeing, problem solving, awareness of the environment and outdoor creative thinking
Danielle Cline, Science Co-ordinator, Queensbridge Primary School
Pollution Reducing Green Screens
London Fields Primary School has been awarded £8,000 to install a green screen alongside their school playground. The screen will help reduce students' exposure to air pollution.
Rotherfield Living Wall
Rotherfield Primary School received £9,000 to install green screens around their school playground in Islington. The project will help to reduce children's exposure to air pollution from adjacent roads.
I am delighted with the ivy wall, which is bringing real heatlh benefits to our children, through filtering pollutants. The wall also looks fantastic - keeping the school 'green' in an urban environment
A. Misselbrook-Lovejoy, Executive Headteacher
Prior Weston Air Quality School Greening
Prior Weston Primary School has been awarded £12,000 to install green screens around the school playground in Islington.
The screens will help to reduce children's exposure to air pollution from nearby Beech Street and surrounding construction works, and forms part of a wider project addressing air quality in and around the school.
Heathbrook Green Screen
Friends of Heathbrook PTA and Heathbrook Primary School received £5,000 to install a green screen between their school and an adjacent petrol station in Clapham. The screen will help reduce children's exposure to air pollution when using the school's sports pitch.
My daughter really enjoyed seeing the planters being put in place, and has remarked since the green screen was installed how she feels like she is in the middle of the park as she can't see the cars through the fence from the sports pitch any more
Kathryn, parent, Heathbrook Primary School
Greener Playground
Oakfield Preparatory School has been awarded £15,000 to install a green screen next to their school playground in West Dulwich. The screen will help reduce children's exposure to air pollution.
GoGreen!
St Mary's C of E Primary School received £5,625 to green their school playground.
The project included installing green screens and planting a new tree. Stuents have taken part in planting activities and related workshops on air pollution and plant science.
It has been nice to see a softening of the playground and to see a greening measure which provides seating, shade and hopefully does something to reduce the air pollution round here. It has been a simple but effective change
Parent volunteer
Hush
Addey and Stanhope School received £15,000 to create a quiet and relaxing space in the front courtyard of the school in New Cross by installing green ivy screens.
The school is now working on a long-term plan to green and improve the wider playground, involving students in the design.
Deptford Park Primary School Green Wall
Deptford Park Primary School, working in partnership with the London Borough of Lewisham, received £9,500 to install a green screen alongside the school playground in Deptford.
The screen will reduce children's exposure to air pollution from the adjacent main road. The school is now developing plans for more improvements to make the school grounds greener.
Green Shields
Keir Hardie Primary School received £8,000 to install over 100 metres green ivy screens around the school playground in Canning Town, Newham. The screens will help to reduce children's exposure to air pollution.
The Green Screen has been an invaluable addition not just to the mental wellbeing of the children in school and in enhancing their connection to the natural world, but in the opportunities it has given for hands-on observation and learning
Mr Moore, Science lead, Keir Hardie Primary School
Green Screening
St Stephen's School has been awarded £20,000 to install a green screen alongside the school playground in Twickenham. The screen will help to reduce children's exposure to air pollution.
Nurturing Nature
Tower Bridge Primary School received £15,000 to install a green screen between their school playground and a polluted road in Southwark.
St Joseph’s Green Saves Lives
St Joseph's Roman Catholic Primary School received £10,000 to install a green screen at their school in Bermondsey. The screen will reduce children's exposure to air pollution from the adjacent main road.
The green screen has brought many positive benefits to our school. Our school playground has improved aesthetically and the playground now feels more cosy and enclosed. The children are protected from the noise and distractions from a busy main road and they enjoy their playtimes much more
Headteacher
Reducing Traffic Pollution in School Playgrounds with Green Screen & Orchard
Boutcher Primary School has been awarded £9,019 to green their school playground in Bermondsey.
The project included planting a green ivy screen and an apple orchard of 15 trees, and 210 children took part.
The Goose Green Clean Air Garden
Goose Green Primary School received £6,052 for a "clean air garden" at the school in East Dulwich. The project included new planters and "smog shields" to help reduce children's exposure to air pollution.
200 people, including 150 children took part in planting days Combined with the Green Screen installed in 2018, these measures have reduced pollution levels inside the playground by almost half.
The Green Screen Project
Oliver Goldsmith Primary School received £12,500 to install green screens around the perimeter of the school in Camberwell. The screens will help to reduce children's exposure to air pollution from adjacent roads.
180 students took part in the project, helping to choose new plants and take part in hands-on sessions.
The whole project was incorporated into the curriculum which meant that pupils engaged fully with the concepts that were explored. Pupil Voice surveys conducted during and after the project showed that they were becoming aware of the causes of air pollution. They also confidently spoke about what can be done to reduce air pollution
Rose Moses, Assistant Headteacher
Greener Infrastructure
Charlotte Sharman Primary School received £10,000 to install a green screen at the school in Southwark. 301 children took part in the project.
The screen will help to reduce children's exposure to air pollution from the adjacent main road. The project also included improving the existing school garden to expand the children's planting area and create a sensory garden.
A Greener Marner
Marner Primary School received £30,000 to green the school playground in Bromley-by-Bow in line with recommendations in its air quality audit. The project included tree and hedgerow planting around the school perimeter, creating a forest school area and creating a green gateway at the school entrance.
The project has been a vital part of our school's learning about pollution and the wider understanding of global environmental issues. Children have been involved all along the way. The school community and the children are really proud of the work and how this will build on a greener, cleaner future for all of us
Ruth Whitfield, Assistant Head and Forest School Leader
The Green Corner in Tooting Bec
St Anselm's Catholic Primary School received £10,000 to install a green screen at the school in Tooting, Wandsworth. The screen will help reduce children's exposure to air pollution from the adjacent busy road.
The project forms part of a wider programme to promote active travel and reduce air pollution around the school.
The Mayor of London's grant has been a great stimulus for us as school community. It has not only provided an opportunity to raise awareness and have conversations about improving air quality around our school, it has handed responsibility to the whole school community including near 210 student ambassadors that are our future.
Annette Quinn, Foundation Governor
Green Living Wall
St Peter's Eaton Square C of E Primary School have been awarded £7,000 to add to the green perimeter of the school. This second phase will add a green screen to protect a small playground from air pollution, creating a newly useable sheltered garden space.
Cleaner Air Green Screens
St Clement's Danes C of E Primary School has been awarded £7,500 to install green screens at their school in Westminster. The screens will help to reduce children's exposure to air pollution from adjacent roads.
The school has installed further green screens in other areas of the playground, and is working to build a parklet outside as a 'green oasis'.
Clean Air Green Screens
St Mary's Bryanston Square C of E Primary School received £7,500 to install green screens at the school in Marylebone, Westminster. The screens will help to reduce children's exposure to air pollution.
The school secured additional funding from Addison Lee to extend the screens further into the playground
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