Land Holdings
The NPFA supervises the property over which the Association acts as Guardian Trustee and ensures that it retains its charitable purpose.
The NPFA has a role in the protection of over 2,000 fields across the United Kingdom. In total, the NPFA’s land portfolio represents an interest over 13,000 acres (53 km²). More than half of the sites were funded in the 1920s and 1930s by the NPFA and the Carnegie United Kingdom Trust on the basis that the land would be kept as public playing fields in perpetuity. In all of its work, the NPFA is assisted by affiliated national and county associations and other partners.
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Famous quotes containing the words land and/or holdings:
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Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand
A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame
Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name
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—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)