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=**Lordship Rec Updates**=

'Restore Our Rec!' Community Festival (13th Sept 2008) - report May 2008 Feb 2008 Jan 2008 = = = = = =

September ‘08
We are pleased to report that following years of continuous effort, public consultation, campaigning, and partnership-working between the Friends of Lordship Rec, the Council and others - backed by massive support from local people - **the park has now been allocated £4m from the Lottery.** We’ll get this as long as the Council can raise an additional £2.5m, and we all continue to work together to come up with detailed and practical plans for the agreed improvements. These will include a new environmental centre, a city farm, restoration of the river, Shell Theatre and model traffic area, improved maintenance and management... and much more.. The Friends have also published history pamphlets, organised a range of walks, clean-up days and events, and co-ordinated annual community festivals. Not bad for a bunch of volunteers! ** info@lordshiprec.org.uk [|www.lordshiprec.org.uk]  ** //Note: We work with the other Friends groups around Haringey to ensure that all the borough’s green spaces get the attention and resources they need. We also support local residents associations in their efforts to improve facilities, services and neighbourhoods throughout the borough.// // More info: [|www.haringeyfriendsofparks.org.uk] and [|www.haringeyresidents.org] //
 * Improving our park ** Parks are great places where all sections of our local communities can come together to relax and enjoy ourselves. But for people to do that in Lordship Rec we need to transform **Tottenham’s largest but most neglected green space** into a beautiful park for everyone to use.
 * What we’ve achieved so far ** Local residents and park users formed the **Friends of Lordship Rec** in 2002. As regular users we realised there was a crying need for the basics of any decent large park - public toilets, better play equipment, proper maintenance of paths and benches, good management and daily on-site staffing, good quality and staffed buildings, refreshments and so on.
 * Achievements continued… ** Over the last few years we have made real progress. Together with the Council, local residents associations and other key concerned organisations, we formed the **Lordship Rec Users Forum** to get everyone working together to work out what the park needs and how to get the funding for it.
 * Successes have included ** the active play areas by the Shell Theatre, a new pathway, some on-site staffing, the active involvement of the Broadwater Community Centre, and other improvements. We ourselves in the Friends have taken charge of restoring the lake area and recently the woodlands (where we have created a new path and display boards). And we now manage the park’s noticeboards.
 * How you can get involved ** As you can see these are exciting times and there’s lots to do. We’d like many more people to join our 300 members or get actively involved. Together we can share news & views, learn a lot, build up community spirit, make a real difference, & have a load of fun too!
 * For more information and news about the Friends and the park **
 * - please check out the park’s noticeboards regularly **
 * - attend one of our monthly drop-in meetings ** (at the hut in the children’s area, on the first Sunday of each month: 2pm-3pm)
 * - or email us to ask to be kept updated: **