Mandy Rudd, GiGL Chief Executive Encouraging use of our data holdings whilst ensuring sustainable funding to manage and improve the resources available is quite a balancing act. Over the last nine years, we have developed a suite of data use licences that offer free...
Mandy Rudd, GiGL Chief Executive As avid GiGLer readers will know, the project that initially scoped out support for a London environmental records centre was set up by London Wildlife Trust with funding from City Bridge Trust in 1996. An independent consultation in...
We are in the process of setting GiGL up as a community interest company (CIC). This will mean that as of January 2013 GiGL will be an independent organisation as recommended in the local records centre development plan that initiated the establishment of GiGL in...
Mandy Rudd, GiGL Director Publicly available planning figures show 17,000 planning applications were assessed in London between January and March last year (2011). In the same period, GiGL delivered just 144 data searches. While not all applications have a potential...
Mandy Rudd, GiGL Director In this our 10th edition of the GiGLer, we take a quick look at how things have changed over the five years of the GiGLer’s existence. In the early summer of 2006, we had just launched as an open space and biodiversity records centre after...
