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Urban Parks & Climate Change Action Planning

Thu 07 May

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Climate Change Action Planning

Community Action & London's Green spaces.

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Urban Parks & Climate Change Action Planning
Urban Parks & Climate Change Action Planning

Time & Location

07 May 2020, 19:00 – 20:00 BST

Climate Change Action Planning

About the event

 Join us in this webinar on Thursday May 7th at 7.0pm where we look at discussions between some voluntary Friends of Parks in the London Borough of Enfield to create a common approach towards climate change

We will be interviewing Kim Lumley from the Friends of Broomfield Park - an attractive Park in the London Borough of Enfield about his ongoing discussions to collaborate with others to develop a strategy for Parks in the Borough.

Here we will focus on the potential benefits of Urban Parks and the Friends plan for Broomfield Park with the idea that collaborating with other Friends of parks and Greenspaces groups being raised as a future proposal.

Doing this would great potential both for actions but also engagement and increasing involvement with volunteers and the community. 

At present their focus is on their actions in Broomfield Park and they are in the early stages having…

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The Growing Danger Of Wildfires

 

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Join us on Wednesday, September 30th at 7.00 pm

​ Speakers include

Richard Boniface is from the Australian Fire Service where they have considerable experience of wildfires. He is from the Berowra Brigade which is part of the New South Wales Rural Fire Service (RFS) which has an extensive network of brigades throughout the State. Thy deal with many bushfires and their experience is valuable as grassfires are now a growing threat to urban areas in London. Richard has given many talks throughout Europe

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Also joining us will be Phil Swallow who is the Commander of the Enfield Fire Brigade and is very keen to collaborate with EnCaf. He will be joined by his colleague Andrew Holtzhausen who has also had experience fighting wild fires in South Africa

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