Hello, Thanks to your support we now have over 2,000 supporters for our petition. Right at the end of 2014 we received a letter from the Mayor of London's Environment Team which confirms that they will be investing some officer time to "support" our "endeavours". This is energising news that I hope will inspire more people to support our initiative. Between now and June 2015 we will be working with partners to create a full proposal. This is an exciting time and with your help we could make London the world's first National Park City. As well as developing a proposal, we need to amplify our campaign and snowball support for our aims. Here are 10 ways you can help us to make London a National Park. Please do what you can to help us build even more support for our initiative. 1. Join us to #ReimagineLondon as a national park at Southbank Join us for this special event on February 24 to #ReimagineLondon as the world's first National Park City. Tickets are usually £39, but as a petition supporter you can book your place for just £5. Register for the exhibition only for free. Book now at http://bit.ly/1Ae8p2U 2. Help us build support Help us to inspire more people to support our campaign and sign this petition. You can do this by tweeting your support, sharing this petition on Facebook or writing an article or blog post. 3. Join our online campaign group We are cultivating an online campaign group on Project Dirt, a social platform to connect, promote and resource projects like ours. This is a great space to ask questions and help us to develop the campaign. Join us here http://bit.ly/GLNPdirters 4. Come to a campaign meeting Our first campaign meeting of 2015 is on January 28 in Kings Cross. We're meeting at the Parcel Yard Pub for the evening. RSVP at http://bit.ly/1x6XWGK 5. Recruit the support of your MP or borough We have had very positive feedback from the politicians that we have contacted about the campaign. Can you recruit the support of your councillor, council or MP? We have a letter you can adapt and email here http://bit.ly/1wCp5zU 6. Recruit an organisation We have a growing list of organisations that we Friends of the Greater London National Park initiative. This is an important group who help to steer the campaign and build our support. Please click here http://bit.ly/GLNPfriends to add your organisation. 7. Innovate with us Could a Greater London National Park add value to your business proposition or help your charity achieve objectives? Could we do something creative together that would support our campaign and your aims? If you have any ideas please contact us. We would love to innovate with you. 8. Feed into our consultation Keep your eyes open for our initial Greater London National Park consultation. We'll be asking some questions in February and then publishing a draft proposal in April, a year after our campaign was launched. 9. Stay in the loop Join our campaign newsletter to receive more regular updates http://bit.ly/1y2EFIy 10. Tweet us We now have over 7,000 followers on twitter. If you have a relevant event, piece of news, opinion or photo please share it with @LondonNP or #GLNP so that we can share it with our followers. There are over 13,000 species of wildlife in London. Have you taken a photograph of one of London's animals or plants? Celebrate London's urban wildlife by tweeting an old or new photo using the #WildLondoner hashtag. Thank you very much for taking the time to read this update. Together we can make London a National Park City! Very best, Daniel @DanRavenEllison @LondonNP #GLNP