Green Pennant Awards
Three Pocket Parks in Northamptonshire have won the Green Pennant Award 2010/2011
- Great Billing
- Great Houghton
- Kingsthorpe New Churchyard
The Green Pennant Award recognises the achievement and hard work of voluntary groups who manage their green spaces for the benefit of their local community.
Pocketeer
Find out what has been happening in the Pocket Parks of Northamptonshire:
Our innovative Pocket Parks scheme provides 'Countryside on the Doorstep' for people in the county.
Please see images below from some of the Pocket Parks throughout the county.
Pocket Parks are open areas of land managed by local people, providing free, open access for anyone at all times, whilst helping to protect and conserve local wildlife, heritage and landscape.
Over the past 25 years we have worked in partnership with many organisations and other local authorities to help create over 80 Pocket Parks varying in size from 0.04ha to 35ha. They are found in all types of locations from town centres to quiet villages.
The Pocket Parks scheme is easily replicable, environmentally sound, good economic value and community orientated.
Suitable sites include:
- Disused railway lines
- Old quarries or formal gravel pits
- Former landfill sites
- Old orchards or disused cemeteries
- Riverside fields or abandoned millstreams and pools
To find out more about volunteering at the pocket parks visit the volunteering webpage.
To find out more or how you can set up a new pocket park, visit the Pocket Parks website.
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