Conheça Love Parks Week

sábado, 30 de julho de 2011

Conheça Love Parks Week

Conheça Love Parks Week

Love your park!

91% of people believe that public parks and open spaces improve their quality of life; show your support for them with Love Parks Week.

We're aiming to get one million people out into their local park. From Tai Chi classes to jazz nights, urban street games to teddy bear picnics, there's an event for you during Love Parks Week 2011.

About Love Parks Week

Love Parks Week is an annual campaign, organised by parks charity GreenSpace. Founded in 2006, the campaign has grown steadily and is now established as a major event that is celebrated in parks across the country. Each year hundreds of events take place enabling thousands of people to get out and enjoy their parks and help put forward the case for reinvestment.

Benefits of parks

We are showcasing the benefits of these free, local resources and encouraging further promotion and reinvestment into such valuable, but often forgotten assets.

Did you know?

91% of people believe that public parks and open spaces improve their quality of life.

Over 33 million people in England choose to use their green spaces, with around a tenth of the population visiting daily, and over half of us do so weekly.

Air quality, air temperature, water and flood management, are all kept within manageable limits because of parks and green spaces.

The more often a person visits urban open green spaces, the less often he or she will report stress-related illnesses.

A brisk walk every day in your local park, can reduce the risk of heart attacks, strokes and diabetes by 50%, fracture of the femur by 30%, colon cancer by 30%, breast cancer by 30% and Alzheimer's by 25%.

Local authorities are not legally required to provide, invest in or maintain public parks and green spaces.