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Second round of Westminster Green Investment launches to raise £2 million for a greener city

January 5, 2026December 10, 2025 Stuart Mitchell

Westminster City Council has launched the second round of Westminster Green Investment (WGI) with the ethical crowdfunding platform Abundance Investment. This exciting scheme invites residents and businesses to invest in local green initiatives and help raise £2 million or more for a cleaner, more sustainable Westminster. Following the success of the first round in 2023, which raised £1 million in just nine days, the latest round will continue to support community-focused projects across the city, including the Seymour Leisure Centre redevelopment. The refurbishment is due to be completed in mid-2026…

Crown Estates launches London’s first CityTree

April 10, 2018March 30, 2018 Stuart Mitchell

Launching on Glasshouse Street, just off Piccadilly Circus, in London, CityTree is a breakthrough technology designed to specifically combat air pollution and heat in cities. It has been brought to London by The Crown Estate, with the support of Westminster City Council, and cleantech company Evergen Systems, the exclusive UK supplier of CityTree. Delivering 275 times the air cleaning capability of a single tree, CityTree is a pioneering technology which takes just 1% of the space that would be needed to achieve the same results using real trees. What makes…