Community Spaces » Friends of Evington Park 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. Wed, 01 Feb 2012 11:16:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Friends of Evington Park Enter Lottery Awards http://blog.community-spaces.org.uk/2010/02/19/friends-of-evington-park-enter-lottery-awards/ http://blog.community-spaces.org.uk/2010/02/19/friends-of-evington-park-enter-lottery-awards/#comments Fri, 19 Feb 2010 10:25:02 +0000 nishavirdi http://blog.community-spaces.org.uk/?p=1149

The Friends of Evington Park in Leicester have entered their Community Spaces funded project to this years National Lottery Awards.

The Awards celebrate and recognise the nations favourite lottery-funded projects from across the country.

The Friends of Evington Park group secured just over £25k to create an outdoor gym in their park. To find out more about their project click here.

Entries to the awards are open until 5pm on 19th February 2010 – anyone hoping to enter their project needs to act fast! You can enter your project by visiting: http://www.lotterygoodcauses.org.uk/awards

We’d like to wish the Friends of Evington Park all the very best with their entry to the Awards – Good Luck!

]]> http://blog.community-spaces.org.uk/2010/02/19/friends-of-evington-park-enter-lottery-awards/feed/ 2 Friends of Evington Park – Video http://blog.community-spaces.org.uk/2010/01/11/friends-of-evington-park-video/ http://blog.community-spaces.org.uk/2010/01/11/friends-of-evington-park-video/#comments Mon, 11 Jan 2010 13:24:38 +0000 nishavirdi http://blog.community-spaces.org.uk/?p=1044 A short thank you video from Friends of Evington Park, Leicester, who secured just over £25k to create an outdoor gym in their local park.

The group have worked really well with Leicester City Council to create a outdoor gym in the park – we hope the site continues to be a popular local resource.

Thank you to Facilitator, Tamzin Smith, for the video. More videos from Community Spaces funded projects can be found on our You Tube Channel, see: www.youtube.com/communityspaces

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World Record Breaker Manjit Singh

Friends Of Evington Park and Village Green and Leicester City Council Parks and Green Space Services have successfully secured over £25,000 from Community Spaces to install an Outdoor Exercise Area in Evington Park. The project is due to be launched later this month by Leciester’s own ‘Ironman’ – Manjit Singh.

The project incorporates 10 pieces of equipment, which will provide a full body workout, new seating and a landscaped picnic area. This will provide free access to Exercise equipment for all members of the Community to enjoy in the tranquil setting of Evington Park. Members of the local Community have been involved with planting the new trees and shrubs.

Local Ward Councillors have supported the project and Michael Johnson said “In this day and age many people are in need of exercise, this is a fantastic opportunity and once again Evington leads the way”.

The project will opened on 26 October 2009 by Leicester’s Ironman & Guinness Book of World Records holder, Manjit ‘Ironman’ Singh. http://www.manjitironman.com/ironman2.htm

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