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12-504: Vauxhall Park is a Green Flag Award -winning municipal park in Vauxhall , South London, run by Lambeth Council . It occupies an 8.5-acre (3.4 ha) site, and was created at a cost of around £45,000, following a public campaign led by the suffragist Millicent Fawcett , the social reformer Octavia Hill and members of the Kyrle Society . The land was purchased from a local developer under

24-465: A One O’Clock Club, a nursery, a multi-use games area, two tennis courts, chess tables, a park café, and two fenced dog areas. There is an active Friends of Vauxhall Park, established in 1999. 51°28′59″N 0°07′19″W  /  51.4830°N 0.1220°W  / 51.4830; -0.1220 Green Flag Award The Green Flag Award is an international accreditation given to publicly accessible parks and open spaces, managed under licence from

36-592: A conference of 26 organisations in 1955. The conference was initiated by the British Women's Institute after a resolution was passed at its 1954 AGM to start a national anti- litter campaign. In 1987, Keep Britain Tidy changed its name to Tidy Britain Group. In 2002, following a merger with environmental awareness charity, Going for Green, the charity changed its name to ENCAMS — short for Environmental Campaigns. In June 2009,

48-465: A process involving secret shoppers and inspection of both the park and the owner's management plans. The aspects that spaces are judged on are: A failure to meet the judges' standards can result in the accreditation being withdrawn; one example of this is North London's Finsbury Park which lost its Green Flag in 2018. Keep Britain Tidy Keep Britain Tidy was originally set up by

60-529: Is located in the park (others are located in Brockwell Park and Fitzroy Gardens in Melbourne). The model village was restored and re-opened by the then MP Kate Hoey in 2001. The park is famous for its lavender garden, located on the former bowling green, and annual lavender harvest. Lambeth Council undertook a major renovation of the park in 2020. The facilities in the park include a children's playground,

72-606: The Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities , a UK Government department, by Keep Britain Tidy , who also administers the scheme in England . The Green Flag Award was introduced in 1996, and first awarded in 1997, by the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) with the intention of establishing agreed standards of good management, to help to justify and evaluate funding and to raise park attendance. The scheme

84-573: The Vauxhall Park Act 1888. and the houses of Lawn Terrace demolished accordingly. The new park was formally opened in 1890 by the Prince of Wales . It was the wish of the blind MP Henry Fawcett that the park be created, and his former garden is one part of the park. The design of the park was the work of Fanny Wilkinson , the first professional female landscape designer in Britain. A statue of Fawcett by

96-476: The artist George Tinworth was erected in the park in 1903, but was removed by Lambeth Council in 1959 and has since been replaced by a plaque. Octavia Hill , a staunch believer that all people ought to have access to nature and open spaces, and the Commons Preservation Society successfully campaigned against development in the park in the late 19th century. One of Edgar Wilson's model villages

108-554: The charity changed its name back to Keep Britain Tidy, introducing a new logo highlighting the IT within BRITAIN , reading "Keep It Tidy" as well as "Keep Britain Tidy". The "tidyman" logo is still used in public campaigns, alongside campaign straplines such as "Let's keep it tidy!" and "Help keep it tidy!" Following a year-long strategic alliance, in 2011 Keep Britain Tidy merged with the environmental charity Waste Watch . Keep Britain Tidy became

120-487: The green space sector. It is described by its issuers, Keep Britain Tidy, as an "internationally recognised award that is a benchmark for well-managed green space". As of October 2021, 2227 parks and open spaces held a Green Flag Award. While public parks make up most of the awardees, the Green Flag Award is also issued to sites with different uses, such as Loughborough University and Bluewater Shopping Centre , for

132-502: The management of their grounds. The Green Flag Award is managed under licence from the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities , a UK Government department, by Keep Britain Tidy , who also administers the scheme in England and several other countries, including Australia and the United States. The owners of spaces that wish to hold the accreditation, pay a fee to be assessed by volunteer judges on an annual basis with

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144-493: Was managed by Civic Trust , on MHCLG's behalf, until they lost the contract and the charity went bust in 2009. The scheme has been managed by Keep Britain Tidy since 2012, with sister organisations Keep Scotland Beautiful , Keep Wales Tidy and TIDY Northern Ireland delivering the scheme across the UK, and various other bodies delivering worldwide. The scheme's aim is to promote standards of good management and best-practice amongst

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