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- Communities and neighbourhoods
- Sustainable communities
- Cleaner safer greener communities
- Parks and urban green spaces
- The Green Flag Award Scheme
The Green Flag Award Scheme
The Green Flag Award Scheme is an annual peer review voluntary award scheme that recognises high standards of management and maintenance of publicly accessible green spaces in England and Wales. It is managed by the Civic Trust, and supported with funding from Communities and Local Government and others. The Scheme was established in 1996 and has since gone from strength to strength, with more than 400 parks and green spaces across England and Wales now holding a Green Flag Award. The Scheme is a critical element of the Governments aim to drive up the standards of our parks and green spaces.
In 2005 we set up the Green Flag Advisory Board - a stakeholder group chaired by Communities and Local Government to provide advice on the delivery and strategic direction of the Green Flag Award Scheme.
The role of the Board is to advise Communities and Local Government on the development of the Scheme and to bring together the principal stakeholders to discuss its future direction and monitor performance. It also supports Communities and Local Government in helping to meet its commitment, as part of a public service agreement target (PSA8), to ensure that the number of local authority areas with at least one Green Flag Award standard space increases to 60% by 2008.
The Board is made up of representatives from Communities and Local Government, CABE Space, current Green Flag Award sponsors (Countryside Agency, Countryside Council for Wales, English Nature & English Heritage), original founders of the Scheme, the Heritage Lottery Fund, a private sector representative, Green Flag judges, a Green Flag winning local authority and a Green Pennant winning community group and the Civic Trust. The Board meets quarterly and the Secretariat is provided by Communities and Local Government.
Updated: 14 September 2006
