Christopher Wellbelove DL

The Jubilee Gardens Trust held a summer garden party for local residents, businesses, and supporters to highlight the work of the Trust, their exciting future developments and to promote how to get involved in this vitally important green space at the heart of our South Bank community.

The Representative Deputy Lieutenant for Lambeth, Christopher Wellbelvoe, welcomed His Royal Highness The Duke of Gloucester to the event. They were joined by Mayor of Lambeth Cllr Sarbaz Barznji, Leader of Lambeth Council Cllr Claire Holland and Florence Eshalomi MP, alongside local residents and business representatives from the South Bank and Waterloo area.

Ted Inman, Chair of the Jubilee Gardens Trust opened the event, explaining the history of the site which was first opened as a park in 1977 by Queen Elizabeth II and re-landscaped in 2012 when the Queen visited again. Ted also talked about some of the upcoming projects to improve the Gardens including the much-anticipated expansion which will see the area increase by 40%.

Many who use the site have no awareness that the gardens have been developed by and maintained by the trust, which is reliant on donations and contributions from local businesses to keep up its work.

The objectives of the Trust are to:

• Provide a park and facilities at Jubilee Gardens, for the benefit of the public
• Provide facilities for recreation and leisure, for the benefit of the public
• Promote, for the benefit of the public, the conservation, protection and improvement of the physical and natural environment of the area
• Education of the public in the subject of the history of the area
• Promote community participation in healthy recreation