Green Heritage and Green Flag Awards for Newington Green 2010

Green Heritage Award ~ and ~ Green Flag Award for 2010

NGAG is pleased to announce that Newington Green has once again been awarded a Green Flag Award for the high level of care taken to look after the Green. One of the criteria for this award is that there should be community involvement in the care and running of the site, so we would like to thank all those volunteers who have helped NGAG to plant bulbs, trees and tree pits, look after the bird feeders, clean up rubbish, run events and generally keep and eye on Newington Green. The Green Flag Award is now being run by Keep Britain Tidy.

We have also been awarded the prestigious Green Heritage Award for the fifth year running. Accreditation for this award is sponsored by English Heritage and this year the Green Heritage Award has been given to just 52 sites in the whole of the UK.

The fact that the Newington Green Action Group has helped to promote the history of the Green, with our award-winning book 'The Village that Changed the World' and our seasonal postcards of the Green, has contributed towards the award being given to us again this year. As a point of interest, 'The Village that Changed the World' has been so popular, that we are having a second edition published, and it should be available in mid September.

For  more information about the Green Flag and Heritage Awards you can visit here:

http://www.keepbritaintidy.org/GreenFlag/GreenFlagAwardSites/London/Default.aspx?parkID=183