On Wednesday Keep Scotland Beautiful
held the ‘It’s Your Neighbourhood’ annual seminar and certificates were
presented to participating groups. It’s Your Neighbourhood is a campaign with
an emphasis on community participation. A series of certificates are available to
recognise the work done by local groups to make their environment clean, green
and sustainable.
Queen Street Community Garden,
maintained by Grove Academy pupils, received a Level 5 Outstanding certificate,
as did the Friends of the Barnhill Rock Garden. Well done to both on achieving
such a high assessment. Several other Dundee community groups were also recognised
at the event.
Additionally, Barnhill Rock
Garden has been nominated for the Fields in Trust UK's best park award. You can
vote for it via the Fields
in Trust website. Voting is open until Wednesday 9 November 2016 at 5pm.
The park with the most votes in
each of England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland will be shortlisted and
the winner announced at the Fields in Trust Awards on Wednesday 30th November. Last
year, Telford Town Park in Shropshire was named UK's Best Park 2015. Let’s see
if we can make it Barnhill Rock Garden this year.
