http://sustainablecommunities.ground-level.org/ en-us Sat, 01 Mar 2003 00:00:00 GMT Sat, 01 Mar 2003 15:17:24 GMT http://backend.userland.com/rss UserLand Frontier v9.0 rssUpdates greg@mcneillfamily.com (Gregory McNeill) greg@mcneillfamily.com (Gregory McNeill) http://sustainablecommunities.ground-level.org/claudia_jones <TABLE width="80%" border=0> <TBODY> <TR> <TD> <P><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Aims: to work with people in their locality to create sustainable communities. This programme includes Changing Estates - focusing on tenants and residents on estates and resulting in projects which can range from access and security improvements to public art, community gardens like the <a href="http://sustainablecommunities.ground-level.org/claudia_jones">Claudia Jones garden</a> and play facilities. Also projects which promote recycling and composting like the <A href="http://sustainablecommunities.ground-level.org/warb&amp;darcy">Warburton &amp; Darcy garden club</A> small grants scheme to promote sustainability practices; small-scale improvements tackling a range of issues from eyesores and restoration of heritage features, <a href="http://trees.ground-level.org/">tree-planting</a>, to growing food in the inner-city such as <a href="http://sustainablecommunities.ground-level.org/devonshire_house">Devonshire House garden</a> and <a href="http://sustainablecommunities.ground-level.org/haggerston_gardens">Haggerston garden club</a>.</FONT>&nbsp; <a href="http://londonpoolscampaign.ground-level.org">London Pools campaign</a></P></TD></TR> <TR align=middle> <TD><img src="http://manila.images.ground-level.org/sustainablecommuni/localitymappingweb.gif" height="415" width="567" border="0" alt="mappingweb: "></TD></TR> <TR> <TD> <P><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Staff: Kay Wagland community projects manager, Vince Steele, landscape architect. </FONT></P></TD></TR> <TR> <TD><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Funding: LBH - various departments, "Groundwork Federation"/DETR, Green Links and Vital Centres SRB2, Estates Development Committee funding, Local/area SRB programmes, Urban. ERDF, schools, "Linklaters" solicitors, "Barclays" site savers, "London Marathon Charitable Foundation". (drawing Maisie Rowe, copyright Groundwork Hackney) </FONT></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>