Millennium Green
Millennium Greens are areas of green space for the benefit of local communities. 245 were created in cities, towns and villages across England to celebrate the turn of the Millennium. They are funded in part by the National Lottery via the Countryside Agency. Each one is different, as local people have had an input into the design of their green.
The project to create 250 Millennium Greens across the turn of the Millennium was started in 1996 and ended when the last Green was handed over to its own, local charitable trust in perpetuity.
Each trust now fundraises for and runs its own green, within the bounds of its trust deed, for the benefit of its local community.
Read more about Millennium Green: The Aims of The Millennium Greens, History of The Plans, Design of The Greens, Creation of The Greens, Project Success and Legacy, The Future of Millennium Greens
Famous quotes containing the words millennium and/or green:
“The millennium will not come as soon as women vote, but it will not come until they do vote.”
—Anna Howard Shaw (1847–1919)
“I live in my wooden legs and O
my green green hands.
Too late
to wish I had not run from youpollo,
blood moves still in my bark bound veins.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)