Chestnut Park Primary School, in one of the most built-up and deprived areas of Croydon, has won a £1,000 cash prize in a national comepetition to boost nature projects on their site.
Chestnut Park in Broad Green is one of 10 winners announced of The Nature Prize, run by Let’s Go Zero and funder the OVO Foundation. The scheme provides grants to schools that are engaging pupils with nature and supporting communities to get involved in climate action. Let’s Go Zero is a national campaign for all schools, colleges and nurseries to be zero carbon by 2030, led by climate solutions charity Ashden.
Cash prizes of up to £1,000 each have been awarded to projects involving food growing, community collaboration and outdoor learning. The projects help schools create biodiverse-rich environments for their pupils to learn from nature, the award organisers say.
With no onsite green space, only a single Tarmacked playground, Chestnut Park’s award-winning scheme plans to transform the school’s roof into a natural oasis.
Winning idea: pupils at Chestnut Park Primary are excited at the prospect of greening their very urban environment
The area will include a covered outdoor classroom, planters for food production and wildlife habitats, bug and bee hotels, reading pods and weather stations.
The prize money will be combined with funding from other grants to create this multi-functional green space that the school hopes will inspire other inner-city schools to be creative with the space they have.
Su Moore, the head of the OVO Foundation said: “Through the inventiveness and diversity of the funded projects, we’re truly able to see our mission of a greener, brighter future for the next generation come to life.”
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