The Oxford Preservation Trust Awards Ceremony
6th November 2024, St. John’s College, Oxford.
By Mabvuto Hardy
Kate’s Place was shortlisted in the Landscape & Public Realm category and were awarded a certificate along with another worthy winner ‘Flower Lane & Co–Op Corner’. This was part of the ‘Six winning plaques and 16 runner–up certificates’ that were awarded to an array of brilliant projects ‘to encourage the best new buildings, conservation projects, landscaping and temporary projects’.
Kate’s Place was described as: ‘A new urban wildlife park, named in memory of its principal designer, has been created in Florence Park. It is open to the whole community, is dog free and is used every day by a local nursery for forest school learning’.
Laura Burt and Mabvuto Hardy were on hand to receive the certificate on behalf of The Nature Effect CIC. The category was sponsored by Critchley’s, and we had the fortune to sit alongside the two awards presenters, so by the time we were announced and went on stage to receive the certificate, we were not strangers meeting for the first time. A big thank you to the many people who have supported the development of this NaturEscape – including all the community members and Good Gym who helped plant the meadow and hedges and sponsored stones and Jane Gallagher who painted them, Also thanks to Kate’s friends and family who helped upgrade the pathway and improve the pond, plant fruit trees,
sponsor benches, Flo’s founders who collaborated with Oxford City Council, Oxford Garden Partners and the Nature Effect CIC to come up with the concept design and resources in the first place.
sponsor benches, Flo’s founders who collaborated with Oxford City Council, Oxford Garden Partners and the Nature Effect CIC to come up with the concept design and resources in the first place.
Your hard work has not gone unnoticed.
Written by Mabvuto Hardy – Associate
