The Green Flag Community Award 2021/22 flag, flies over the Conservation and Heritage site of Heene Cemetery.
Friends of Heene Cemetery have been volunteering together for six years and have achieved a great deal in that time.
Worthing Hides a Haven of History and Wildlife, and other Blogs, shows examples of the diversity of our roles as conservationists and heritage guardians.
We greatly value the support of Adur & Worthing Councils Parks Department, and Bereavement Services.
Sue Standing – Chairperson of Friends of Heene Cemetery
The Green Flag Community Award 2021/22 has been achieved by Friends of Heene Cemetery in their sixth year of volunteering.
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Heene Cemetery flies the flag as one of the country’s best Community parks
In a record-breaking year for the Green Flag Award, as the scheme marks its Silver Jubilee,
Heene Cemetery is one of 2127 celebrating success today
Friends of Heene Cemetery raise the Green Flag at Heene Cemetery, Manor Road, Worthing BN11 4RY on Saturday 16th October 2021.
The Green Flag Community Award is the international quality mark for parks and green spaces
After 18 months that have seen our parks and green spaces play a vital role for people through lockdowns as a place to relax, exercise and meet friends and family safely, the news that Heene Cemetery has achieved the Green Flag Community Award is testament to the hard work and dedication of the team that make the green space a great space that everyone can enjoy.
Diversity of Parks and Green Spaces
Heene Cemetery joins parks and green spaces as diverse as the National Memorial Arboretum in Staffordshire, Woodhouse Park in Peterlee and Chiswick Old Cemetery in London.
Commenting on the news that Heene Cemetery has achieved the Green Flag Community Award standard, Green Flag Award Scheme Manager Paul Todd said:
“I would like to congratulate everyone involved in making Heene Cemetery worthy of a Green Flag Award.
To meet the requirements demanded by the scheme is testament to the hard work of the staff and volunteers who do so much to ensure that Heene Cemetery has high standards of horticulture, safety and environmental management and is a place that supports people to live healthy lives.”
Paul Todd – Green Flag Award Scheme Manager
The Green Flag Award scheme
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.
A full list of Green Flag Award-winning parks and green spaces is available Winners (greenflagaward.org)
Would you like to join this team of volunteers and help ensure the future success of Friends of Heene Cemetery? Please do visit us on a Saturday or Tuesday afternoon between 2pm-4pm or contact us here.
