Our Space Award 2021/22

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The Our Space Award (OSA) aims to help Londoners clean & green the city through active community engagement & participation, increasing a sense of community ownership over shared spaces. It will support Londoners of all ages & backgrounds, communities & schools in greening their neighbourhoods, making them inclusive places for all to enjoy. It does this by enabling more groups to access funding for projects. The activities funded by the OSA will be designed to also make a significant contribution to a number of wider social and environmental objectives, notably: • Tree planting (we hope each project can plant at least 1 tree). • Climate resilience and adaptations to climate change; • Improvements to water quality & drainage through planting & reducing hard surfaces; • Ecological & biodiversity benefits; • Climate education alongside physical improvements; • Improving air quality; • Reducing health inequalities & social isolation. OSA supports projects throughout Greater London. In addition, Tideway, the company building London’s ‘super sewer’, is contributing substantial new funding in 2021/22 to support groups and projects in the infrastructure project’s 14 London Boroughs: Hounslow, Ealing, Richmond Upon Thames, Wandsworth, Hammersmith & Fulham, Kensington & Chelsea, City of Westminster, City of London, Lambeth, Southwark, Lewisham, Tower Hamlets, Newham, Greenwich. The ‘super sewer’ will clean up the River Thames for future generations and Tideway is particularly interested in supporting projects which have some link with water or an element of environmental education. Project essentials (we recommend you address these in your project description): - Your project must be start after 14.02.2022 and finish by 13.02.2023. - Your project must cost between £500 to £2,000 and take place within Greater London. - Over 50% of your budget includes items used to physically create the project (e.g tools, plants). - You have in principle landowner permission (if applicable). - You mention the project need and how you will actively engage local community/volunteers to increase the sense of ownership over the shared space. - You mention the kind of transformation your project will bring and how much m2 of space will be improved/number of trees planted. The space you hope to improve must be underused, neglected or would be significantly more usable or environmentally beneficial through improvements. - How the site will be maintained in the future

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