To seek approval to extend two Service Level Agreements (SLA) for the Mudchute Farm (£31,000 per year from April 2021 to March 2024) and the Friends of Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park (£31,900 per year from April 2021 to March 2024). This will be a continuation from the previous three-year SLA set out for both organisations dated April 2018 to March 2021.

Mudchute Farm and Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park are unique, important and much loved open spaces managed by charitable community based organisations. They form part of the borough’s physical heritage and are extremely significant community assets. In both cases, although the land is owned by the Council, the management has been in the hands of the community. For the Mudchute, this has been the case since the land was won as a park in 1974. For the Cemetery Park, the management has been community led since the formation of the Friends group in 1990. In both cases the open space is much loved and well used.