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Grounds Maintenance
Love Parks Week: Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park

In celebration of Love Parks Week, we are excited that Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park has been awarded the Green Flag Award for 2023. The award is the perfect recognition that the park reaches strict expectations and meets visitors’ needs.

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Grounds Maintenance
Love Parks Week: Jephson Gardens

Warwick District Council and idverde are celebrating after receiving a Green Flag award for Jephson Gardens in Royal Leamington Spa.

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Grounds Maintenance
Love Parks Week: Delapré Abbey

In celebration of Love Parks Week, we are excited to announce that Delapré Abbey has been awarded a Green Flag Award.

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Grounds Maintenance
Love Parks Week: Stapenhill Gardens

idverde and East Staffordshire Borough Council are celebrating after Stapenhill Gardens retains their Green Flag Award for 2023/2024.

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Grounds Maintenance
Love Parks Week: Queen's Park

At the heart of Loughborough stands the historic award-winning Queen’s Park. The park, maintained by idverde, is loved by many and has been awarded the Green Flag Award every year since 2008.

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Grounds Maintenance
Love Parks Week: Wormwood Scrubs

Love Parks Week is the perfect celebration of the green spaces that enrich our lives. Whether your passion is walking, cycling, picnicking, or just relaxing, parks are the ideal places to connect with nature and each other.

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Ecology & Biodiversity
Biodiversity in Telford How idverde & RSPB Volunteers are Leading the Charge in the Nature Positive Battle

Biodiversity is critical and so are the volunteers that help make it happen. Over the last few years idverde and the RSPB have worked together with volunteers to take action in Nature Positive projects creating greener urban spaces.

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Measuring the Value of Trees

Trees matter. We know this, even if we’re not immersed in environmental issues – the news is full of the catastrophe of rain forest destruction and the huge increase in the number of schemes for planting trees to help with carbon offsetting.

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John Pemberton, Biodiversity Development Manager and idverde’s leading expert on Ecology
Wonderful wetlands and their importance to biodiversity

On World Wetlands Day, we share some thoughts and insights on the importance of wetland areas as part of complex nature-based solutions.

Of course, all nature-based solutions involve water to some degree: the solution would hardly be nature based without it. Often, however, water presents its own problems – something that is particularly evident in urban and peri-urban environments which due to human population density can reap a particularly high human and financial cost when water management fails.

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The idverde guide to commercial energy saving

There are lots of tips and advice about how we can save energy individually, but it’s just as important that organisations look at their energy use. There are huge benefits to be had here, just by thinking a bit differently about how we do things. And those changes could have significant commercial impacts too.

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