Dawson Park in West Ferry has been nominated
by Dundee City Council as a Queen Elizabeth Challenge Field. The organisation Fields
In Trust has been running the Queen Elizabeth Fields Challenge as a permanent
living legacy of HM The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee, the 2012 Olympic Games and the
2014 Commonwealth Games. The purpose of the challenge is to ensure that outdoor
spaces and sporting facilities are guaranteed for future generations as a tribute
to these events.
The benefits of the scheme are a clear commitment
to the conservation of the park, access to direct improvement grants through association
with the scheme, assistance in accessing other external funding through demonstrating
partnership working, access to tool kits and technical advice on park improvements
and development proposals.
A commemorative plaque will be displayed acknowledging
that Dawson Park is a Queen Elizabeth Challenge Field. Camperdown Park in
Dundee has also been nominated as a Queen Elizabeth Challenge Field.
There is a separate campaign run by Fields in
Trust in conjunction with Poppyscotland to secure open spaces in perpetuity in
honour of the memory of the millions of people who lost their lives in the
First World War. The Law has been suggested as a Centenary Field because of its
association with Dundee’s war memorial.
