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	THE CAMPAIGN
Behind the scenes campaign Local community groups National issues Challenges to Open Land Scouts Headquarters Social Events Forthcoming Events Media coverage How you can help Register your support	Local community groups have been actively campaigning about various issues connected with the Atkinson Morley's Hospital site since 1982. LUNG has been formed jointly by these groups to focus on protection of the 17 acres of open land and ensure that it remains a public green space for posterity. What has happened since LUNG's first meeting? At our initial public meeting in September 2002, we roughed out our plans as to what we wanted to achieve over the next 18 months. One of our key challenges has been to raise local awareness of exactly what was being put in danger. Many people in the locality knew of, and supported the retention of the MOL, but far fewer had real experience of its size, its diversity and its potential. The second immediate challenge was to gather together a large group of volunteers who could work on the various aspects of the campaign that we needed to create. As we are entering a significant new phase in the campaign, it is a good time to remind people of what has happened in the last nine months in order to achieve our objectives:
	Footpath campaign			ongoing since Jul 2001
	Set up LUNG			Sept/Oct 2002
	"Behind the scenes" campaigning			ongoing since Sept 2002
	Family footpath walk			Nov 2002
	Planning it for Real			end Nov 2002
	Set up LUNG web-site			Jan2003
	LUNG objects to NHS Trust's published proposals for the site			ongoing since February 2003
	Formal meetings with St. George's NHS Trust			ongoing since March 2003
	Set up Morley Park Trust Ltd			Apr 2003
	Easter Event for children and families			Apr 2003
	Victorian Fair			Jun 2003
	Business Plan for Morley Park Trust			ongoing since February 2003
	Sweet chestnut trees			ongoing since July 2003
	Revised planning application December 2004 application August 2005 amendments to December 2004 application			November 2004 December 2004 August 2005
	Reviewing Our Successes and Learning for the Future: Our key successes have centred around two areas. Through an incredible amount of hard work from a small number of individuals we have run some very successful activities and events. These events, whether they have had a fun focus or a serious intent, have all contributed to raising people’s awareness of the potential of the site as a community resource and have shown that the local community will support and participate in these large scale events. So many people we have met during these events have said “I have known about the site for years, but never realised just how beautiful and large the area is.” We have begun the process now of making sure that it is not Wimbledon’s best kept secret! The other key success is that we have explored a variety of ways in which we have been able to give the local community its voice as to what could happen on the site. The numbers of people involved has steadily increased too, over the nine months. At the Footpath Protest the numbers were calculated in tens. By the Family Walk and the Planning for Real, they were calculated in the hundreds, and by the time we got to the Victorian Fair we were reckoning in thousands!
Last updated:02-02-2008