2012 marks the Diamond Jubilee of Her Majesty the Queen. The Challenge is an innovative campaign to protect outdoor recreational spaces around the country as a permanent living legacy of this great event. From sports pitches and playing fields, woodlands and nature reserves, children’s play areas and gardens and bicycle trails to parks, the Queen Elizabeth II Fields Challenge will protect a diverse range of outdoor spaces ensuring that there is something to appeal to everyone. The protection of such sites today continues the work of Fields in Trust since its formation in 1925 and, in particular, the King George’s Fields protected in memory of King George V following his death in 1936.

Newcastle is taking part in the ‘challenge’ by nominating a number of parks and green spaces across the city to be included, either totally or in part, in the scheme to protect playing fields for future generations. At the same time, the challenge provides the city and green space users the opportunity to join in the celebrations surrounding the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee with local events.
Fields in Trust plan to encourage local celebrations in the summer of 2012 when they will launch the first of our annual celebrations, ‘Have a Field Day’.

Cllr WENDY TAYLOR is pleased that Castle Farm Playing Fields is one of the areas nominated to represent Newcastle

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