Gatwick Greenspace Partnership - things to celebrate from 2024

admin
, 26 November 2024
Gatwick Greenspace Partnership - things to celebrate from 2024
GGP team: Polly Kitson, Barry Wildish, Sophie Atkinson, Tamara Jewell, Kevin Lerwill

Tamara Jewell

Gatwick Greenspace Partnership Manager

Facilitating people connecting with nature and taking action for wildlife has kept GGP busy again in 2024 with over 250 volunteering and educational events and over 5000 volunteer hours given throughout the year.

Never let it be said that we sit on our laurels. Alongside all the usual business, this year, Community Project Officer Kevin Lerwill has added another string to his bow. Outside of his normal remit of adult volunteering, Kevin collaborated with the Wilder Learning team and The Oaks Primary school in Crawley and was surprised to discover how much 11 year olds can achieve when let loose to carry out work on the heathland at Tilgate Park.

I strayed from my comfort zone attending a school assembly for the first time to talk about the work of the project after the children nominated us for a donation. I also took part in a Local Nature Recovery Network webinar with a presentation highlighting the brilliant work being done by young people taking action for nature in Sussex.

Partnership Officer Barry Wildish has found he has a talent for inspiring young people with his passion for conservation, engaging, amongst others, Wildlife Rangers and Sussex University at Gatwick and over 13 000 students online in webinars describing his work.

Wildlife Rangers © Roz Bassford

A highlight for Barry was having all GGP team attend an event at Gatwick for Work Experience students. Despite a day of heavy rain, there were smiles all round and we all pulled together as a team to give the young adults a day to remember.

Kevin’s highlight has been installing a number of leaky dams in Owlbeech Woods, which will help to slow the flow of water and create seasonal ponds for wildlife after heavy rainfall. These are very popular with the volunteers, relatively quick and easy to build in suitable areas and recreate the effect that Beavers have in the wild.

A highlight for me was a wonderful day collaborating with Sussex Wildlife Trust's Forest School training. We spent a day with 70 TKAT headteachers from 45 schools who joined us from their conference to observe 11 Forest school trainees working with 60 children of Hilltop primary school. TKAT is one of the largest Multi-Academy Trusts in the South and East of England so this event was a great opportunity to showcase the power in connecting children with nature. After observing the magic Forest School was having on the children, we followed with the head teachers themselves taking part in Forest School activities. It was great to see these adults playing in the woods, and was a brilliant opportunity to demonstrate the power of outdoor education.

September was a whirlwind of hosting with our 30-year celebrations and a number of other events and staff meetings for Sussex Wildlife Trust.

Reflecting on 30 years has really hammered home how special this project is. Touching base with friends of GGP past and present and reflecting on the benefits of a myriad of long-term relationships has been very rewarding and reminds us of the power of this project.

We are happy to report that our work remains at the cutting edge of Sussex Wildlife Trust's strategy, as the Director of Communities recently wrote in a blog after visiting GGP with the senior leadership team:

“The GGP team is doing amazing work to deliver Our Wild Sussex strategy, connecting people with nature, working with diverse audiences and supporting 30 by 30. Their approach demonstrates our values of collaboration through building strong partnerships, inclusive engagement, and their passion really shines through in everything they do.”

Leave a comment
Time Δ Debug Message - Perch Runway 3.2
1782631992.7430 [906] SELECT p.pagePath, pr.routePattern, pr.routeRegExp, p.pageTemplate, pr.routeOrder, s.settingValue AS siteOffline FROM swt_pages_staging p LEFT JOIN swt_page_routes pr ON p.pageID=pr.pageID LEFT JOIN swt_settings s ON s.settingID='siteOffline' UNION SELECT NULL AS pagePath, pr2.routePattern, pr2.routeRegExp, pr2.templatePath AS pageTemplate, pr2.routeOrder, NULL AS siteOffline FROM swt_page_routes pr2 WHERE templateID!=0 ORDER BY routeOrder ASC, pagePath ASC
1782631992.77640.0334Matched route: news/[slug:s]
1782631992.77650.0001Server address: 216.73.216.31
1782631992.77650Using master page: /templates/pages/blog/post.php
1782631992.77650Page arguments: 
Array
(
    [0] => /news/gatwick-greenspace-partnership-things-to-celebrate-from-2024
    [s] => gatwick-greenspace-partnership-things-to-celebrate-from-2024
    [1] => gatwick-greenspace-partnership-things-to-celebrate-from-2024
)
1782631992.77690.0003 [1] SELECT * FROM swt_pages_staging WHERE pagePath='/news/post' LIMIT 1
1782631992.77770.0009 [86] SELECT DISTINCT settingID, settingValue FROM swt_settings WHERE userID=0
1782631992.77950.0018 [1] SELECT locationID FROM swt_shop_tax_locations WHERE locationIsHome=1 LIMIT 1
1782631992.78020.0006INSERT INTO swt_shop_cart(memberID,locationID,currencyID,cartPricing,cartProperties) VALUES(NULL,'1',47,'standard','[]')
1782631992.7820.0019 [1] SELECT * FROM swt_shop_cart WHERE cartID=22374758
1782631992.78250.0005 [1] SELECT * FROM swt_shop_cart WHERE cartID=22374758
1782631992.7830.0005 [nil] SELECT * FROM swt_shop_sales WHERE saleFrom<='2026-06-28 07:33:00' AND saleTo>'2026-06-28 07:33:00' AND saleActive=1 AND saleDeleted IS NULL ORDER BY saleOrder ASC
1782631992.78440.0014 [1] SELECT SQL_CALC_FOUND_ROWS DISTINCT tbl.* FROM ( SELECT idx.itemID, main.*, idx2.indexValue as sortval FROM swt_blog_index idx JOIN swt_blog_posts main ON idx.itemID=main.postID AND idx.itemKey='postID' JOIN swt_blog_index idx2 ON idx.itemID=idx2.itemID AND idx.itemKey='postID' AND idx2.indexKey='_id' WHERE 1=1 AND ((idx.indexKey='postSlug' AND idx.indexValue='gatwick-greenspace-partnership-things-to-celebrate-from-2024')) AND idx.itemID=idx2.itemID AND idx.itemKey=idx2.itemKey GROUP BY idx.itemID, idx2.indexValue, postID ) as tbl WHERE (postStatus='Published' AND postDateTime<='2026-06-28 07:33:00' ) GROUP BY itemID, sortval ORDER BY sortval ASC LIMIT 0, 10
1782631992.7870.0026 [1] SELECT FOUND_ROWS() AS `count`
1782631992.78750.0005 [1] SELECT * FROM swt_blog_posts WHERE postID=3585 AND postStatus='Published' AND postDateTime<='2026-06-28 07:33:00'
1782631992.78830.0008 [13] SELECT * FROM swt_blog_sections ORDER BY sectionTitle ASC
1782631992.7890.0006 [1] SELECT * FROM swt_blogs ORDER BY blogTitle ASC
1782631992.78960.0006 [1] SELECT * FROM swt_categories WHERE catID=53 LIMIT 1
1782631992.79020.0006Using template: /templates/blog/post.html
1782631992.79050.0004 [162] SELECT catID, catPath FROM swt_categories
1782631992.79130.0008 [1] SELECT * FROM swt_blog_posts WHERE postStatus='Published' AND postDateTime<='2026-06-28 07:33:00' AND postSlug='gatwick-greenspace-partnership-things-to-celebrate-from-2024'
1782631992.81230.021Using template: /templates/blog/post.html
1782631992.8130.0007 [250] SELECT country, countryID FROM swt_shop_countries WHERE countryActive=1 ORDER BY country ASC
1782631992.81470.0017Using template: /templates/pages/attributes/seo.html
1782631992.8150.0003 [1] SELECT regionID, regionTemplate, regionPage, regionRev AS rev FROM swt_content_regions WHERE regionKey='Banner image' AND (regionPage='/news/post' OR regionPage='*')
1782631992.81570.0008 [nil] SELECT * FROM ( SELECT idx.itemID, c.regionID, idx.pageID, c.itemJSON, idx2.indexValue as sortval FROM swt_content_index idx JOIN swt_content_items c ON idx.itemID=c.itemID AND idx.itemRev=c.itemRev AND idx.regionID=c.regionID JOIN swt_content_index idx2 ON idx.itemID=idx2.itemID AND idx.itemRev=idx2.itemRev AND idx2.indexKey='_order' WHERE ((idx.regionID=104 AND idx.itemRev=0)) AND idx.itemID=idx2.itemID AND idx.itemRev=idx2.itemRev ) as tbl GROUP BY itemID, pageID, itemJSON, sortval, regionID ORDER BY sortval ASC
1782631992.81690.0011 [82] SELECT * FROM swt_pages_staging WHERE pageNew=0 AND pageHidden=0 AND pageDepth >=0 AND pageDepth<=2 ORDER BY pageTreePosition ASC
1782631992.81960.0027 [1] SELECT pageTreePosition FROM swt_pages_staging WHERE pagePath='/news/post' LIMIT 1
1782631992.82020.0005 [2] SELECT pageID FROM swt_pages_staging WHERE pageTreePosition IN ('000-006-001', '000-006', '000') ORDER BY pageTreePosition DESC
1782631992.82220.002Using template: /templates/navigation/ps_nav_template.html
1782631992.82230 [6] Using template: /templates/navigation/ps_nav_template_children.html
1782631992.82310.0008 [4] Using template: /templates/navigation/ps_nav_template_children.html
1782631992.82360.0005 [29] Using template: /templates/navigation/ps_nav_template_children.html
1782631992.82610.0025 [10] Using template: /templates/navigation/ps_nav_template_children.html
1782631992.82710.001 [7] Using template: /templates/navigation/ps_nav_template_children.html
1782631992.82780.0007 [9] Using template: /templates/navigation/ps_nav_template_children.html
1782631992.83070.0029 [1] SELECT pageTreePosition FROM swt_pages_staging WHERE pagePath='/news/post' OR pageSortPath='/news/post' LIMIT 1
1782631992.83160.0009 [1] SELECT * FROM swt_pages_staging WHERE pageHidden=0 AND pageNew=0 AND pageTreePosition IN ('000-006-001', '000-006', '000') ORDER BY pageTreePosition
1782631992.83370.0021 [1] Using template: /templates/navigation/breadcrumbs.html
1782631992.83420.0005Using template: /templates/blog/post.html
1782631992.83450.0003 [1] SELECT * FROM swt_blog_authors WHERE authorID='1' LIMIT 1
1782631992.83520.0007Using template: /templates/blog/author.html
1782631992.83540.0003 [1] SELECT SQL_CALC_FOUND_ROWS DISTINCT tbl.* FROM ( SELECT idx.itemID, main.*, idx2.indexValue as sortval FROM swt_blog_index idx JOIN swt_blog_posts main ON idx.itemID=main.postID AND idx.itemKey='postID' JOIN swt_blog_index idx2 ON idx.itemID=idx2.itemID AND idx.itemKey='postID' AND idx2.indexKey='_id' WHERE 1=1 AND ((idx.indexKey='postSlug' AND idx.indexValue='gatwick-greenspace-partnership-things-to-celebrate-from-2024')) AND idx.itemID=idx2.itemID AND idx.itemKey=idx2.itemKey GROUP BY idx.itemID, idx2.indexValue, postID ) as tbl WHERE (postStatus='Published' AND postDateTime<='2026-06-28 07:33:00' ) GROUP BY itemID, sortval ORDER BY sortval ASC LIMIT 0, 1
1782631992.83750.002 [1] SELECT FOUND_ROWS() AS `count`
1782631992.83780.0004 [1] Using template: /templates/blog/post.html
1782631992.84040.0026Using template: /templates/blog/comment_form.html
1782631992.84110.0007 [nil] SELECT * FROM swt_blog_comments WHERE 1=1 AND postID=3585 AND commentStatus='LIVE' ORDER BY FIELD(webmentionType, 'like', 'repost', 'comment', NULL) ASC, commentDateTime ASC
1782631992.88950.0484 [0] Using template: /templates/blog/comment.html
1782631992.88970.0003Using template: /templates/blog/post.html
1782631992.890.0003 [1] SELECT * FROM swt_blog_authors WHERE authorID='1' LIMIT 1
1782631992.89080.0008 [1] SELECT pageID, pageParentID, pageDepth, pageTreePosition FROM swt_pages_staging WHERE pagePath='/what-we-do' OR pageSortPath='/what-we-do' LIMIT 1
1782631992.89150.0006 [1] SELECT pageID, pageParentID, pageDepth, pageTreePosition FROM swt_pages_staging WHERE pageTreePosition='000-002' LIMIT 1
1782631992.89190.0005 [7] SELECT * FROM swt_pages_staging WHERE pageNew=0 AND pageHidden=0 AND pageTreePosition LIKE '000-002%' AND pageDepth >=1 AND pageDepth<=2 ORDER BY pageTreePosition ASC
1782631992.89390.002 [1] SELECT pageTreePosition FROM swt_pages_staging WHERE pagePath='/news/post' LIMIT 1
1782631992.89440.0005 [2] SELECT pageID FROM swt_pages_staging WHERE pageTreePosition IN ('000-006-001', '000-006', '000') ORDER BY pageTreePosition DESC
1782631992.89630.0019 [6] Using template: /templates/navigation/footer-nav.html
1782631992.89740.0011 [1] SELECT pageID, pageParentID, pageDepth, pageTreePosition FROM swt_pages_staging WHERE pagePath='/make-a-difference' OR pageSortPath='/make-a-difference' LIMIT 1
1782631992.89790.0005 [1] SELECT pageID, pageParentID, pageDepth, pageTreePosition FROM swt_pages_staging WHERE pageTreePosition='000-005' LIMIT 1
1782631992.89840.0004 [38] SELECT * FROM swt_pages_staging WHERE pageNew=0 AND pageHidden=0 AND pageTreePosition LIKE '000-005%' ORDER BY pageTreePosition ASC
1782631992.90080.0025 [1] SELECT pageTreePosition FROM swt_pages_staging WHERE pagePath='/news/post' LIMIT 1
1782631992.90130.0004 [2] SELECT pageID FROM swt_pages_staging WHERE pageTreePosition IN ('000-006-001', '000-006', '000') ORDER BY pageTreePosition DESC
1782631992.90310.0018 [10] Using template: /templates/navigation/footer-nav.html
1782631992.9060.0029 [1] SELECT pageID, pageParentID, pageDepth, pageTreePosition FROM swt_pages_staging WHERE pagePath='/visit' OR pageSortPath='/visit' LIMIT 1
1782631992.90650.0006 [1] SELECT pageID, pageParentID, pageDepth, pageTreePosition FROM swt_pages_staging WHERE pageTreePosition='000-004' LIMIT 1
1782631992.90690.0004 [30] SELECT * FROM swt_pages_staging WHERE pageNew=0 AND pageHidden=0 AND pageTreePosition LIKE '000-004%' AND pageDepth >=1 AND pageDepth<=2 ORDER BY pageTreePosition ASC
1782631992.9090.0021 [1] SELECT pageTreePosition FROM swt_pages_staging WHERE pagePath='/news/post' LIMIT 1
1782631992.90950.0004 [2] SELECT pageID FROM swt_pages_staging WHERE pageTreePosition IN ('000-006-001', '000-006', '000') ORDER BY pageTreePosition DESC
1782631992.91130.0018 [29] Using template: /templates/navigation/footer-nav.html
1782631992.9140.0027 [1] SELECT pageID, pageParentID, pageDepth, pageTreePosition FROM swt_pages_staging WHERE pagePath='/make-a-difference' OR pageSortPath='/make-a-difference' LIMIT 1
1782631992.91470.0007 [1] SELECT pageID, pageParentID, pageDepth, pageTreePosition FROM swt_pages_staging WHERE pageTreePosition='000-005' LIMIT 1
1782631992.91520.0005 [11] SELECT * FROM swt_pages_staging WHERE pageNew=0 AND pageHidden=0 AND pageTreePosition LIKE '000-005%' AND pageDepth >=1 AND pageDepth<=2 ORDER BY pageTreePosition ASC
1782631992.91720.002 [1] SELECT pageTreePosition FROM swt_pages_staging WHERE pagePath='/news/post' LIMIT 1
1782631992.91760.0004 [2] SELECT pageID FROM swt_pages_staging WHERE pageTreePosition IN ('000-006-001', '000-006', '000') ORDER BY pageTreePosition DESC
1782631992.91950.0018 [10] Using template: /templates/navigation/footer-nav.html
1782631992.92060.0011Request time: 0.1808
1782631992.92060Process time: 0.1806
1782631992.92060Memory: 1.6287