GiGL CIC

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...
Gatecrashing the Gateway

Gatecrashing the Gateway

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...
Five years and counting

Five years and counting

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...

Branching out

The London Assembly’s Environment Committee released ‘Branching Out – The future of London’s Trees’ in April. Describing the importance of street trees to London’s environment, the report looks at a number of issues surrounding them, including the value placed on them...
Branding GiGL. Brand new GiGLer

Branding GiGL. Brand new GiGLer

Mandy Rudd, GiGL Director Welcome to the 9th edition of the GiGLer and the first version of our new ‘iGiGLer’. In this issue, we have moved away from PDF files, a sophisticated way of delivering information back in 2006, to this new web-based format. The new iGiGLer...