SEPTEMBER 2017
HRH The Prince of Wales launches new Royal Parks charity One of the UK’s largest conservation charities to be launched in recent years has been unveiled by its new patron, His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales. The Prince formally launched the Royal Parks charity, which supports and manages 5,000 acres of Royal Parks, stretching from Greenwich Park in the east to Bushy Park in the west. He said: “I remember the parks as a very small child, being taken around Richmond Park with my great grandmother Queen Mary in her wonderful old, upright green Daimler. As a result, those parks are imprinted on my childhood memory in a very special way, which is why I have always felt that children should have the opportunity to experience parks at a young age. “Today I want to pay special tribute to all those who make these parks what they are. To all the marvellous staff who do Previously the parks had been managed by an agency of the all the hard work; grow all the plants; and of course all the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (the Royal Parks volunteers and special people who give up their precious time Agency) with fundraising and some education undertaken by to do so many of the tasks that are absolutely essential. All the Royal Parks Foundation (RPF). Now the two organisations these people are so often unsung and unseen, and they do have joined forces to bring together the best of fundraising, matter hugely. A huge thank you, also, to the police who help education and park management. keep the show on the road.” Becoming a new charity will allow the parks to be managed The new charity’s Chairman, lifelong arts and heritage more efficiently, and allow the charity to plan further into enthusiast Loyd Grossman CBE, described how he was the future, rather than on a year-by-year basis. It will also put committed to ensuring that the Royal Parks remain the finest the parks in a stronger position to attract corporate sponsors, parks in the world. private donors, charitable trusts and volunteers. He also welcomed HRH The Prince of Wales as the charity’s patron, saying: “We are extraordinarily grateful to the Prince of Wales for becoming our first patron, and also for his tremendous knowledge and understanding of what we do, and we are thrilled, delighted and honoured that he is today launching our new charity. “Nearly 600 years’ worth of history inspire us and bring us so much joy, so much pleasure, such an enrichment of life for the 77 million people who . Goods Yard visit these parks every year. They are of Camden t n e m p lo e also one of the things which contribute the redev rely and Regarding ie prematu d K U e immeasurably to the distinctiveness of th nds more eople in ds of thousa t 25,000 p a re th d and n d London, which is the greatest city in the u in h t m a l pollution, Bear in r and th use of diese tion. The every yea a ly c ri world, and to the attractiveness of life in e a b ss e tly c c e unn d dire of pollu and disable ther forms our wonderful country.” r cities. are made ill 5,000 are killed by o in the majo re a ts n 2 e l m a n le o b an additi s and disa these death rotect majority of posed to p ro p re a y, n s, if a a, and n safeguard le in this are traffic p ve o e ro p p e ly b th f o tion What verifia well-being ra construc health and d by the ext that are se s u n a c tio c n directly the a e pollutio the class th d it in m lim onsible in tly r sp c a indire s? Be those re amden site prosecute C n to n the o a e g p ; c in ro th rk u a wo and de ght in E u ss ro e b lln g l i in ra e b Lisa Hauck has moved from Primrose Hill up collate e mitigated currently nnecessary nger will b u a d is th lth a g to Steele’s Village. e n h si for cau how this now specify Her new salon has been refurbished and authorities be used? ill w rategies st is being kept green throughout, and not just t a with h w d an on coping y the NHS the wall colour! The furniture and fittings b t thereby n t e u sp b ; is le’s health 50 billion p £ o d e p s’ te a n are almost all vintage and second-hand from o im An est ollution ar industrie effects of p leum and c o e tr e tiv eBay and auction houses. All the lighting will a p g e e th n the dising ancially. rtually subsi be LED so electricity consumption is kept to ically and fin th they are vi e , lly ra o ties: m a minimum, and eco-heads will reduce the tion are responsibili diesel pollu is th on in m o water consumption by 1/3. fr illness r commissi f death and ission and/o e. o m s o f se o Good for you Lisa. We wish you well with u t a c c a The rtanc so the ense impo identified, your new salon. s is of imm th known and a e d se e ting th not preven
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