in the press

Here you will find recent and archive stories where Fields in Trust (or NPFA) has appeared in the press.

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  • Oxford Mail discuss the revelation that 43 sites in Oxfordshire have been sold in the last ten years.
  • Horticulture Week discusses what impact government plans to spend £30m on new sporting pitches will really have. 
  • FIT Campaigner named Local Hero in Chester Evening Leader
  • King George V field in Newcastle Emlyn shortlisted for prize Gloucestershire Echo
  • FIT Campaigner Continues to Fight for Green Space in Scotland Inverness Courier 
  • FIT Young Scots in Sport Awards                                                                                                                     Greenock Telegraph, Hamilton Advertiser                                                                                                                 DailyExpress                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  
  • Letter to the Editor Open Green Spaces
    Western Mail
  • Protected Playing Fields – An Olympics Legacy                                                                                                     LCR Playing Field article Jan08.pdf (28kb)
  • Brown Pledges £100m for Sport in Schools                                                                                                          Daily Mirror
  • MSP’s lobbied over pitch disrepair 
    BBC News
  • Trust on alert as playing fields face new threat
    Daily Telegraph
  • FIT and Minister bemoan Bradford Betrayal
    Telegraph and Argus 
  • Land Swap at Waltham Cross
    East Herts Herald
  • Prince Phillip and the NPFA
    Daily Telegraph
  • Conwy Field Awarded Permanent Protection                                                                                                                                                                                                                        News Wales
  • Fields in Trust CEO warns of ‘Building Schools for the Future’ programme threat
    Daily Telegraph
  • HRH The Duke of Edinburgh Presents President’s Certificates to FIT Volunteers                                     
    Kent News
    Gloucestershire Echo Leicester Mercury
  • Decline of Sports Pitches in Scotland
    BBC News
  • Fields in Trust work with Thornham Parish Council
    Lynn News
  • Wrexham Council Wins FIT Cymru Award                                                                                                       Evening Leader

 

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