£75,000 St Barnabas Church (Newham) -Upgrading Community Space. To extend and enhance community use of the church space by creating better access, greater security and safeguarding provision, and improved facilities. The 1970s toilet and kitchen area will be reconfigured to include disabled and children’s toilets. The kitchen will be brought up to modern standards and made usable by all users. The path from the main entrance to the north door will be paved and ramped. The present oak doors will be renovated and made more secure. £39,000 Teviot and Aberfeldy Estate (Tower Hamlets) - Restore Communal Green Space. R-Urban Poplar proposes a community facility which offers classes for learning about environmental practices. It will provide a number of open and shared facilities to support local community groups and socially minded entrepreneurs who share the ethos of re-use and other environmentally friendly approaches. It will offer formal and informal classes around gardening, food, wellbeing, local energy production and making. Spaces include: A tool lending library, to share tools; A communal kitchen run on bio-gas which prepares food from carefully sourced produce; A small community class room to host classes, discussions and community events; An Anaerobic Digester which produces energy from organic waste. £12,000 Sutcliffe Park (Greenwich) – Planting a Leafy Legacy. Working in collaboration with the local community, we will plant over 40 mixed variety standard trees in Sutcliffe Park, to combat the severe decline of the existing tree stock in the much loved and used park.  With most of the park’s trees being planted in the mid 1930s, many have been lost over the years from old age or disease and through development works on the eastern side of park.The park’s trees are crucial to the aesthetics, quality and future sustainability of the park and provide an important habitat for local wildlife, including pipistrelle bats. Keen to address the critical decline,  this project has been initiated by the Friends of Sutcliffe Park and Royal Borough of Greenwich, who are keen to restore the tree legacy in the park to ensure it stays green, biodiverse and welcoming to all. £26,400 Twinkle Park (Greenwich) - Pond restoration. Twinkle Park was created on the footprint of a derelict local authority playground. It was a community initiative and through extensive consultation a new park was designed, establishing a garden area surrounding a large pond, separated from a ball game area, protected from the surrounding roads by the hundred year old boundary Plane trees. Overnight on the 16th October 2013 the pond water disappeared with disastrous affect upon our resident coots, fish and toads. We aim to restore the pond, to re-establish the unique character of the Park, and its treasured place in the heart of the local community. A new pond will restore the essential nature of the park as a family location, a place of tranquillity, providing the opportunity to connect with nature in an otherwise built-up area. The pond will bring a special feature and character. 07-09-2017 Four London outdoor spaces to benefit from LCF funding

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