Green Flag Awards for three of our spaces!

Our Red Cross Garden, Waterloo Green and Tate Modern Community Garden have been awarded coveted Green Flag Awards as they are officially recognised as some of the country’s best parks!

Some of our regular volunteers with their hard-earned Community Green Flag!

In a record-breaking year (2208 UK spaces received awards), three of our fantastic open spaces are raising their prestigious Green Flag Award! The award is the international quality mark for parks and green spaces.

Over the past two years, our parks and green spaces have played a vital role in supporting people through lockdowns. They offered a place to relax, exercise, and meet friends and family safely. The news that three of our sites have achieved Green Flag Award status is testament to the hard work and dedication of our gardening team and the wonderful groups of community and corporate volunteers who devote so much time to our open spaces.

The Green Flag Award scheme, managed by environmental charity Keep Britain Tidy under licence from the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, recognises and rewards well-managed parks and green spaces, setting the benchmark standard for the management of green spaces across the United Kingdom and around the world.

A full list of Green Flag Award-winning parks and green spaces is available here

A group of three images. Top left - Tate Community Garden, a wooden slated path running between reeds in a pond. Right - a man with a beard sits next to a blond woman with her back to the camera on Waterloo Green, pink flowers are in the foreground.

Top left: Tate Modern Community Garden. Right: Waterloo Green. Bottom Left: Red Cross Garden.

Mary Trafford