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LITTLE
GREEN SPACE
News
release
For immediate
release:
Monday
October 18th 2010
Contact:
Richard Bunting. 07753 488146; richard@littlegreenspace.org.uk
AWARD
FOR MATLOCK’S LITTLE GREEN SPACE
Matlock-based Little Green Space has
been awarded the 2010 Celebrating People Award by the Derbyshire Dales
Council for Voluntary Service (CVS).
Patricia Leake, Derbyshire Dales CVS
trustee, presented Penny Bunting of Little Green Space with the award at
the CVS’s annual general meeting on
14th
October 2010
, at Darley Dale Methodist Hall.
Thanking the CVS for the award, Penny Bunting said:
“Celebrating People is particularly appropriate, because living
sustainably and creating habitats for wildlife has huge benefits for
people. These connections are really worth celebrating.
“At local schools, for example, pupils love wildlife areas,
mini-orchards and vegetable gardens, which help them to interact with
nature and to learn skills such as growing food. Children at
Matlock
Bath
Holy
Trinity
School
recently
made short films about the butterfly and bee garden we planted there,
saying it was ‘awesome’.”
She added that studies show that the more access people have to green
spaces, the greater their physical and mental health.
The annual Celebrating People Award
is made in memory of Jim Heslop, first Chair of Derbyshire Dales CVS,
which supports local voluntary and community groups.
Through its
own work and by inspiring others, Little Green Space is creating a network
of rich and healthy spaces for people and wildlife. For more details, see www.littlegreenspace.org.uk
or write to
PO Box 7590
,
Matlock
DE4 9BT
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