A Green Flag Park
West Ham Park has been awarded a Green Flag, an independently
judged award, organised by the Civic Trust and given annually to
the best parks and green spaces in England and Wales. More details
are available on the
Green Flag website.
Special Innovation 2008 Award for West Ham Park
This was the first year that the special awards for Innovation
were introduced along side the Green Flag Scheme. West Ham Park was
recognised for its commitment to maintaining the Park to the
highest possible standard. This was illustrated by a site based
manual that was applauded as an example of best practice to the
industry. The manual is written so that it can be clearly
understood and adopted by staff across the team. Please visit
Green Flag Award - Other Schemes -
Innovation for more information.
Britain's Best Park!
West Ham Park was named the Best Park in the South East in
the 2005 Britain's Best Park competition. For more details see
www.britainsbestparks.co.uk.
Highly Commended by Horticulture Week
West Ham Park was Highly Commended in two categories in the
first national Horticulture Week awards in 2005 - for Most
Outstanding Contribution to the Environment and Most Outstanding
Contribution to Training in Horticulture.
In making this recommendation, the judges reviewed the work the
Park has done to increase recycling and eliminate peat use, and
also its recent introduction of a Parks Apprentice post. For
further information on our work in these two areas please
email.
Investor in People
The West Ham Park team were recognised as an Investor in People
in May 2008.