Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The Royal Parks make up land that was originally used for the recreation, mostly hunting, by the royal family. [1] They are part of the hereditary possessions of The Crown, now managed by The Royal Parks, [2] a charity which manages eight royal parks and certain other areas of parkland in London. The Royal Parks charity was created as a company ...
The Royal Parks Foundation is a registered charity established in 2003 (registered charity number 1097545). It is the charity that helps support London's eight London's Royal Parks for everyone to enjoy, now and in the future. The charity's patron is The Prince of Wales .
The Royal Parks Half Marathon was established in 2008 by the Royal Parks Foundation as an annual fundraising initiative to both raise funds to support the Foundations work in maintaining London's eight Royal Parks and enabling charities to be involved as well. Since its inception, the event has raised over £55 million for more than 1,000 UK ...
In addition to the statue planned for St. James’s Park, the Royal Parks charity announced Aug. 6 that planning permission was granted for a new two-acre garden in the Regent’s Park in London ...
Regent's Park (officially The Regent's Park) is one of the Royal Parks of London. It occupies 410 acres (170 ha) in north-west Inner London, administratively split between the City of Westminster and the Borough of Camden (and historically between Marylebone and Saint Pancras parishes). [1] In addition to its large central parkland and ...
It was founded by Mike Fitt, [134] [148] who was then The Royal Parks' Superintendent of Richmond Park and later became Deputy Chief Executive of London's Royal Parks. A registered charity, [135] the Holly Lodge Centre received the Queen's Award for Voluntary Service in 2005. Princess Alexandra has been Holly Lodge Centre's Royal Patron since ...
Kensington Gardens, once the private gardens of Kensington Palace, are among the Royal Parks of London. The gardens are shared by the City of Westminster and the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea and sit immediately to the west of Hyde Park, in western central London known as the West End. The gardens cover an area of 107 hectares (265 ...
The Royal Parks are maintained by an executive agency within DCMS, the Royal Parks Agency; The unoccupied royal palaces in England are managed by a contract with Historic Royal Palaces; Maintenance of the occupied royal palaces in England was funded by an annual grant-in-aid to the Royal Household until 31 March 2012.