Posts Tagged ‘Ventnor Botanic Gardens’

Community Spaces update

Posted on 6th August 2009 by

There are now 90 community groups across England benefiting from a whopping three million pounds from the Community Spaces fund -that’s an average of just under £300,000 per region! 

20 of these projects have launched, including a natural play project by the Rogate Appeal for a Playground (R.A.P) group in Hampshire; a nature trail & access improvement project by the Friends of Bennion Pools in Leicesterhire; and Skerton Community Association’s community garden project in Lancashire.

See the New Start website for our blog about Prince Charles’s visit to the Community Spaces-funded Westgate project at Ventnor Botanic Garden in the Isle of Wight: http://www.newstartmag.co.uk/blog/article/a-regal-start-to-second-year-of-funding-for-community-spaces/

If your Community Spaces project has opened or is close to opening please tell us about it here. We’d love to hear what you’ve got planned…

Royal Seal of Approval for Community Spaces

Posted on 20th July 2009 by

Prince Charles & Wendy

Friday was an exicting day for Community Spaces  – as one of our projects was given a royal seal of approval. The Ventnor Botanic Gardens Westgate project on the Isle of Wight was  officially opened by The Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall.  Above is a picture of Prince Charles meeting with Groundwork UK’s Director of Open Grants, Wendy Jenkins and the Ventnor Botanic Gardens Friends Society.

For more details about the visit and the Westgate project see: http://www.community-spaces.org.uk/module/news/display/newsdisplay.aspx?news=46

Pictures from the day can be found at: www.flickr.com/communityspaces and members of the Ventnor Blog have also uploaded some video footage of the Royal’s arriving on the island and greeting local school children, follow the link to view the video.

Were you part of the Royal visit? If you met the Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall at the gardens then we’d love to hear your story. We’d also like to know what you think of the new Westgate Project – so please leave us a reply below.