GROUNDWORK, the community charity, is teaming up with the Royal Navy to offer children an opportunity to be involved in a unique design competition to revamp parks and green spaces.

An Ealing school, Ellen Wilkinson Girls, will team up with Phoenix Academy in Shepherds Bush.

The U Garden project encourages them to work in teams planning, agreeing and presenting ideas to a Dragon’s Den-style panel with the successful team having their designs used.

Groundwork will provide guidance in designing the gardens while the Royal Navy will mentor the students.

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The creativity of the Ellen Wilkinson girls will be used to imagine how a new Queens Park Rangers community stadium near Wormwood Scrubs could connect with the green open space to protect it and encourage more people to use it.

It will help QPR’s engagement with residents, schools and community groups.

Chief Petty Officer Graeme McCall said: “This has been a great way for our staff to share the transferrable skills and knowledge they’ve developed in the Royal Navy with students.

“These are skills they will find really useful both while studying and in the future, when they’re looking for employment.”