Kenneth White
We had the quarterly Partnership meeting on 17th July 2024 and agreed on the 2024 projects that will receive funding from the Kenneth White Legacy Award. Thank you for everyone who applied and who voted on the applications. We received 11 applications (for total £6,305.19) and 16 votes. Thanks to the additional funds from the Friends of Beckenham Place Park we were able to fund all applications this year! The following groups’ were successful this year, congratulations!
- Friends of Mayow Park
- Friends of Brookmill Road LNR
- Friends of Dacres Wood
- Albion Millennium Green Trust
- Ladywell Fields User Group, Rivers and People
- Friends of Brookmill Park
- Chinbrook Community Orchard
- Longton Nursery Allotments
- Friends of the River Pool
- Meadow Close Allotment
- Friends of Forster Memorial Park
The selected projects will help monitor and enhance Lewisham’s biodiversity by restoring and improving three ponds, improving sites for biodiversity by planting wildlife-friendly plants and providing bat and bird boxes, and surveying bats, hedgehogs and water voles. Some of the groups will receive education resources and tools to help their environmental education and volunteering sessions.
Who was Kenneth White
Kenneth White (1923 – 2011) was a local author, historian, geographer and environmentalist. He grew up in Camberwell then moved to Forest Hill and spent a lot of time cycling around Lewisham. He wrote many books and walking guides including the ‘The Quaggy River and its Catchment Area’ which is still used by many at guided walks or as reference. He was passionate about nature and left a legacy to Lewisham’s Nature Conservation team to use for the enhancement of biodiversity in Lewisham. The Kenneth White Legacy Award has been running since 2013 and each year there is a total of £2,500 available for projects that aim to enhance and/or raise awareness of biodiversity in Lewisham.
Thanks to the efforts of Mike Keogh and QWAG a bridge in Ladywell Fields has been named after him.
Nature Conservation Lewisham 
Congratulations! That is such good news for our parks🌳