Core Arts in the Press
December 2020
Mayor of London awards Grow Back Greener grant to Core Landscapes
Helping London adapt to climate change and promoting walking and cycling by converting grey streets into greener spaces: the Wardle Street Project, led by Core Landscapes, will green the route between Homerton High Street and Homerton [...]
October 2020
Core Landscapes receives the Green Flag Award 2020
The Green Flag Award scheme recognises and rewards well managed parks and green spaces, setting the benchmark standard for the management of recreational outdoor spaces across the United Kingdom and around the world [...]
September 2020
Core Landscapes wins London in Bloom 2020 Gold Awards
London in Bloom is about celebrating the passion Londoners have for greening our Capital city, recognising the tireless work of volunteers who support and care for many of our parks, squares, and green spaces both [...]
July 2020
Core Sport winner of the Mental Health and Wellbeing Awards – Category Long-term Impact Award 2020
The Mental Health and Wellbeing Awards are a UK-wide celebration of excellence in mental health and well-being interventions, plus the celebration of inspirational mental health stories.
November 2019
Core Arts are featured in the Science Museum new Medicine Galleries in ‘Rethinking Treatments’
Core Arts are featured in the Science Museum new Medicine Galleries in ‘rethinking treatments’, open for the next 25 years. We are represented by our charity founder and Director Paul Monks and we have been chosen to [...]
Winner HSJ Awards 2019: Mental health innovation of the year
City and Hackney CCG has the fifth highest prevalence of serious mental illness in England, but last year used a collaborative approach to achieve the highest SMI physical health check coverage in the country. The Primary [...]
The Hackney Society, Spaces: Homerton roof garden
Core Landscapes has created a new roof garden at Core Arts in Homerton. The roof garden site includes a teaching and workshop space, micro plant nursery, greenhouse, water-harvesting and demonstration roof top garden plants that [...]
October 2019
Tone It Up: Discussing mental health among queer men
The Homerton-based charity Core Arts is hosting a night of presentations and discussions on the condition of mental health in the local gay, bisexual, trans and queer men's community.
Drab roof transformed into community garden
Two hundred volunteers grafted for five months to transform a bland Homerton roof into a community rooftop garden - and the results are stunning.
July 2019
Social Prescribing Awards 2019
Core Landscape shortlisted for the Award for the Best Nature Based Project in the Year of Green Action
£150,000 to transform the old Hackney’s Eastway Depot into a vibrant community mindfulness hub
The charity will commission specially designed shipping container offices within the grounds of the depot, letting them out as a performance and rehearsal spaces
Funding to transform old Hackney tram shed into community hub
Core Arts has received £150,000 to transform an old tram shed in Hackney’s Eastway Depot into a vibrant community mindfulness hub
City sheds cash to turn old tram shed into Hackney Wick people’s hub
The old tramshed-turned-trolleybus depot now being spruced up as a thriving people's community hub
Charity wins £150k to turn old tram shed into a mental health hub
The project will allow organisations to reduce poverty, raise aspirations and increase individual ands community wellbeing
May 2019
London: Gardening to fight depression
Core Landscapes featured on National Slovakian TV (RTVS)