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22/06/2011
Groundwork is encouraging everyone to share the love
Groundwork are happy to announce the launch of ‘My Urban Oasis’ - an online interactive map that helps users to identify quality local green spaces. My Urban Oasis includes over 200 personal recommendations of great places to visit – uploaded by users of Orange’s ‘Do Some Good’ smart phone app, together with over 1000 Groundwork green space projects across the UK. The map includes details of wildlife and nature reserves, play areas, parks and community allotments. Building on our campaign challenging people to ‘love or lose’ their local green space, the launch of My Urban Oasis goes one step further by encouraging all of us to ‘share the love’, by uploading a photograph and a sentence about our favourite places to the map for others to explore. My Urban Oasis will also be a tool for green space organisations to utilise as a compelling picture of just how valued these places are to people from all walks of life. Groundwork chief executive, Sir Tony Hawkhead, says: “Groundwork has been passionate and improving great outdoor places for community benefit for 30 years and, in our experience, people really care about their local green space – right down to the smallest pocket of a park in a housing estate. “Each place uploaded onto My Urban Oasis means something special to the person who shared it and they all come with a personal recommendation: It could be a place that’s great for walking the dog, for the kids to play or just somewhere to de-stress after a hard day.”
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