Press release
18th July 2023
Today, the Chesterfield Canal Trust is celebrating after receiving a Green Flag Award for Hollingwood Hub. This is the seventh year in a row that it has received this prestigious award.
This accreditation – the international quality mark for parks and green spaces – is testament to the hard work and dedication of the team that care for the Hub so that everyone can enjoy it.
Rod Auton, Secretary of the Chesterfield Canal Trust, said “We are absolutely delighted to have received this award once more. We are so lucky to have a group of hard working and reliable volunteers who look after the gardens at Hollingwood Hub throughout the year. We know their work is much admired by our thousands of visitors, both the regulars and those who happen upon this beautiful place by accident. I have lost count of the number of people I have seen taking selfies by our flower boat.
“We are also very grateful to the volunteers who run our boat trips, our paddlesports hire and who work in our Information Centre & Shop, not forgetting the staff of the fabulous Katey’s Coffee Shop.
“We have been very pleased with the number of companies that have come to help recently as part of their Corporate Social Responsibility schemes. We would welcome further offers.”
Keep Britain Tidy’s Green Flag Award Scheme Manager Paul Todd MBE said: “I would like to congratulate everyone involved at Hollingwood Hub in achieving a Green Flag Award.
“It is a vital green space for the community in Chesterfield and beyond, bringing people together and providing opportunities to lead healthy lifestyles. The volunteers do so much to ensure that it maintains the high standards of the Green Flag Award and everyone involved should feel extremely proud of their achievement.”
The Green Flag Award scheme, managed by environmental charity Keep Britain Tidy under licence from the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, recognises and rewards well-managed parks and green spaces, setting the benchmark standard for the management of green spaces across the United Kingdom and around the world.
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