By Aaron Barbour
The Environment Trust has sadly been ‘credit crunched’ at the tender age of 29 years old. An east London institution since 1979, this development trust and charity was responsible for the £25m redevelopment of Mile End Park in Tower Hamlets. It ran a number of successful community development projects. It worked closely with local east end schools to develop environmental education and green school grounds. And it also helped to set up a number of social enterprises including Fair Finance (whom Community Links helped to establish), Tower Hamlets Community Recycling and the Turks Head Company.
A hole has been left in the east end by the demise of the Environment Trust. RIP.
