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£6 million investment to improve green spaces in London
Mayor of London Sadiq Khan has announced a further £6 million of fresh investment in improving green spaces across London.
The £1.2 million Grow Back Greener fund, with £500,000 provided by Thames Water, will offer grants to dozens of community-led projects to help more Londoners access green space in their neighbourhoods. It will focus on the most disadvantaged areas, supporting community gardens, food growing projects, pocket parks and cleaner waterways.
A separate new £4 million Green and Resilient Spaces Fund will support large-scale green space projects, helping to tackle the climate emergency by reducing the risk of floods and keeping our city cool. This could include restoring rivers, creating new wetlands, opening up new green connections between parks, or creating new woodlands.
London’s parks saw the highest increase in usage of anywhere in the country during the first lockdown last spring. Yet, at the same time, it has also brought into sharp focus the inequalities in access to green space across the city.
Khan said: “As Mayor, I want London to lead the way in tacking the climate emergency and for all Londoners to be have access to great green spaces close to where they live. The new funding I am announcing today during London Climate Action Week is just the start of even more investment in green spaces, nature and projects to help tackle the climate emergency.
“The community-led projects that benefit from this programme provide so much more than just improved green space for local communities. The Cookbook Edible Library project I am visiting today provides an educational, safe space for young people to develop new skills – providing positive opportunities and alternatives to those who might be vulnerable to getting drawn into gangs.”
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