Doorstep Greens

Doorstep Greens
Doorstep Green at Cavenham

Doorstep Greens are locally-owned and run public spaces across England. They were first created by the Countryside Agency (CA) in a project started in 2001. The Agency set out to find green spaces which could be organised into relatively small parks and then create a local charitable trust to own, fundraise for, and run each space in perpetuity. This followed from the success of the CA's very successful Millennium Green scheme, which created similar areas to celebrate the turn of the Millennium from 1996-2000. The Countryside Agency has since become part of Natural England, who have nominal national responsibility for this scheme.

Various Millennium Greens and Doorstep Greens have won numerous Green Flag and Green Pennant awards.

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