Marrickville Council in conjunction with Leichhardt and Ashfield Councils and the GreenWay Committee in early 2005 submitted an application for State government funding for a coordination strategy under the Metropolitan Greenspace Program (MGP). A MGP grant was awarded December 2005 on the basis of matched funding, with the NSW State Government providing $30,000, the Councils (Marrickville, Ashfield and Leichhardt) providing $10,000 each.

A Project Working Group was formed (key Council, State Government officers and GreenWay Committed) in 2007 to oversee the Coordination Project. The Working Groups has held a number of meetings, where a key item for discussion was the engagement of a GreenWay Co-ordinator, community consultation for the Strategy, and development of the Strategy Report. A Project Briefing Paper prepared by the Working Group summarises the project objectives, tasks and resources. Marrickville Council's Transport Planner Kendal Banfield will be the Project Administrator, and he can be contacted at: trans@marrickville.nsw.gov.au.

A GreenWay Coordinator was appointed and through 2007 was involved in engaging the community and agency stakeholders in the consultation process, gathering relevant information, and working towards developing a coordination strategy. This also involved community events such as CleanUp Australia day, three "Think Tank" forums/discussions were held and as reported in Way2go newsletter.

The Coordination Strategy is now at Final Draft Stage and proposed to be on public exhibition from mid 2008, when the reports will be available to download from the Marrickville Council web site, and a display will be set up at each of the four GreenWay Councils.