Southwark parks have secured funding from the Queen Elizabeth II Field's London Legacy Fund.

This brings the total of external funding received for Southwark's parks to £7,518,000 since 2011.

Grants of £10,000 for each park will fund projects that help to improve children's playgrounds, parks, recreation grounds, nature reserves, football and rugby pitches, cricket fields, tennis courts, new floodlighting, outdoor gyms, outdoor table tennis tables as well as activity programmes.

The following improvements have been agreed:

• Brimmington Park - Entrance improvements and the installation of two table tennis tables

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• Burgess Park - Installation of compost toilet with a timber building at food growing area

• Dulwich Park - Improvement to Harold Kneebone lodge to make it more accessible, improvements to the entrance, and the installation of new notice boards

• Nursery Row Park - Start up a new active play programme for local children and install new play equipment

• Peckham Rye Park - Install new fencing, plants for the fernery, and new interpretation signage

• Russia Dock Woodland - Installation of new natural play equipment

• Southwark Park - Improvements to the paved area at Ada Salter Gardens and the installation of a new artificial cricket pitch

• Warwick Gardens - Planting to increase the biodiversity in the area and interpretation signage.

Councillor Barrie Hargrove, Cabinet Member for Transport, Environment and Recycling, said: "I am pleased to have been successful in the bids for the London Legacy Funding. We now have the opportunity to further invest in our parks with new play facilities for young people and landscape improvements."

(CD/JP)