Home News News This is the place to read all of the latest news from the Green Flag Award® Scheme. 18 July 2017 Record number of Green Flag Awards in the UK 1797 parks, gardens, cemeteries, universities, museums, hospitals, shopping centres and canals have met the tough criteria demanded by the Award. Parks matt... 17 July 2017 Green Flag Award winners announcing tomorrow We are excited that from tomorrow, a new group of Green Flag Award winners will be proudly raising their flags, some for the first time. Come back tomorrow, ... 13 July 2017 Show how much you #LoveParks As we launch a week-long celebration, we all need to show we #LoveParks to protect them for future generations. Parks matter to people. Every year we mak... 11 July 2017 Flying the flag – Finland’s best parks revealed We are delighted to announce that two Finnish parks will collect their International Green Flag Award today. Since achieving their first Green Flag Award las... 10 July 2017 Ordnance Survey releases open dataset and free map of Britain’s Greenspaces A Government initiative to make it easier for people to locate and access greenspaces has launched today with the release of a new database and interactive d... 06 July 2017 Sweden flies the flag for quality green spaces for the first time Ultuna Campus of the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences is the first green space in Sweden to achieve the coveted Green Flag Award. Green Flags hav... 05 July 2017 Spain flies the flag for the first time Parque del Agua in Zaragoza, is the first park in Spain to achieve the coveted Green Flag Award. Green Flags have been flying over the best of the UK’s park... 30 June 2017 How turning newspaper into art is helping parks Thousands of newspapers have taken a slight detour on their way to be recycled, thanks to a creative partnership between our partners at DS Smith, The Griffi... 27 June 2017 Take a step to a greener park Is litter a problem in your green space? Is it sometimes dropped frustratingly close to a nearby bin? Looking for a simple solution? Keep Britain Tidy hav... 15 June 2017 Scottish parks to benefit from millions Scots make over 160 million visits to local parks and green spaces every year. And now greenspace Scotland has secured a £500,000 Heritage Lottery Fund grant... 09 June 2017 Tell the world why you love your park This year's Love Parks Week - July 14-23 – is an opportunity to demonstrate just how much our country loves parks. So let’s get the whole community telling u... 02 June 2017 Thank you to all the volunteers supporting parks As we celebrate Volunteers' Week, we wanted to say a massive thank you, to both our volunteer Green Flag Award assessors and all the volunteers working hard ... Prev ... 6 7 8 9 10 ... Next