Community Spaces » Friends of Abbey Gardens http://blog.community-spaces.org.uk Community Spaces is a £57.5m open grants programme funded through the Big Lottery Fund and managed by Groundwork UK. This is a place for the Community Spaces team, Facilitators, projects as well as passers-by to share their stories about transforming green open spaces. Thu, 09 Feb 2012 11:19:27 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Talk Talk’s Digital Heroes Award 2009 http://blog.community-spaces.org.uk/2009/08/10/talk-talks-digital-heroes-award-2009/ http://blog.community-spaces.org.uk/2009/08/10/talk-talks-digital-heroes-award-2009/#comments Mon, 10 Aug 2009 10:57:05 +0000 nishavirdi http://blog.community-spaces.org.uk/?p=738 Leading internet broadband provider TalkTalk have launched the Digital Heroes Awards, for unsung Digital Heroes across the country.

TalkTalk are working with Citizens Online to reward 12 individuals, one from each UK region, who are using digital technologies to bring about positive social change and improve local communities and the lives of local people.

Here at Community Spaces, we’ve seen some great examples of community groups using digital technologies such as blogging, Flickr and even Youtube to keep local people informed about their work and engage them in the process. Friends of Sandall Park in Doncaster, Macc Skatepark in Stockport and Friends of Abbey Gardens in West Ham, London are just a few examples of what we think are potential digital heroes.

Eleven of the Digital Heroes winners will win £5,000 to put towards enhancing their digital project, with one overall winner receiving a grand prize of £10,000. All 12 winners get free broadband from TalkTalk for 18 months.

To find out more about nominating someone you know – or even yourself visit: http://www.talktalk.co.uk/digitalheroes  and if you are nominated, then please make sure you let us know…

]]> http://blog.community-spaces.org.uk/2009/08/10/talk-talks-digital-heroes-award-2009/feed/ 1 Look who’s blogging: Friends of Abbey Gardens http://blog.community-spaces.org.uk/2009/03/31/look-whos-blogging-friends-of-abbey-gardens/ http://blog.community-spaces.org.uk/2009/03/31/look-whos-blogging-friends-of-abbey-gardens/#comments Tue, 31 Mar 2009 09:00:06 +0000 nishavirdi http://blog.community-spaces.org.uk/?p=56 Friends of Abbey Gardens BlogFriends of Abbey Gardens, based in West Ham, London, have been blogging to share news about how their funding application to the Community Spaces programme has been progressing. The group have successful got through the first stage of the application process and are in the process of preparing their stage 2 application to the programme. The friends group hope to use the funding towards a community gardening project in their local area entitled – What Will the Harvest Be?

To get the latest from Friends of Abbey Gardens please visit their blog.

We’d like to wish the group the very best of luck with their stage 2 application and would like to say well done for keeping local people so well informed about the work of the group and the projects that are happening locally – we could all learn a thing or two about blogging from this group!

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