Members of Wexford Tidy Towns attended a special ceremony for the first national Greening Communities Awards on Thursday 16
Denis Collins and Phil Murphy receiving the Greening Community Flag Award
“The Greening Communities Program provides a framework to recognise and celebrate a community that is striving towards sustainable living. A Greening Community Flag is awarded to a robust community that works with the program to identify needs and vulnerabilities in their locality and takes action, in accordance with the program, to make the community more sustainable.” (Greening Communities) Learn more about the awards here.
Some of the Biodiversity Projects undertaken in Wexford that were considered in awarding the Flag were:
- 1798 Park
- Redmond Park including the Composting & Ant Hotel
- The Swift Project
- Let’s Bee Friendly Campaign
- Dealing with Invasive Species like Japanese Knotweed
- Wexford in Bloom flowering around the town
- Other Wexford Campaigns
This award along with being presented Bronze in 2014 Tidy Towns Awards as well as coming 5th in the Irish Businesses Against Litter (IBAL) 2014 Awards sees Wexford Tidy Towns continue to go from strength to strength. However with more volunteers we can achieve even better results so please come along and join us at one of our Action Days soon. We would love to see you there.