News and Views
How Green Social Prescribing Could Save Your Parks Service
Green Social Prescribing (GSP) offers the opportunity to link the health benefits of parks to those who would most gain by spending time in a park.
Urban Nature Recovery, Bournemouth, Christchurch And Poole
Read all about the Green Recovery Challenge Funding for eight further sites in our Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole project.
Money money money… The potential and pitfalls of generating income
It’s one of the trickiest areas the Future Parks Accelerator is grappling with. Mollie Dodd, FPA’s Commercial and Business Development Consultant, is helping our places think about opportunities to generate income.
Love Exploring – an app to bring parks to life
Plymouth City Council recently launched a smartphone app called Love Exploring for their largest green space, Central Park. This sort of visitor intervention to increase human engagement and connection to the natural environment is one of the fastest growing, most widely accessible, and cost-effective ways of improving people’s wellbeing.
A Plan B For Parks And Planet?
To mark COP26 we have done a round-up of some of the strategic work these councils are doing that also responds to the challenges of climate change.
The work behind the wildflowers
Seeing streets, verges and parks blossom with wildflowers brings a beautiful simplicity to the beating heart of any city. But creating these spaces is far from simple, as those of us working in or alongside Local Authorities know. Here is a peek into Plymouth City Council’s (PCC) approach to accelerating this change.
Camden And Islington - “Barriers To Accessing Green Space And What We Are Doing To Change This”
Our aim is to ensure parks are inclusive, attractive and accessible for all, reaching those with the greatest needs. We are working to maximise the role our parks can play in addressing health inequalities: in particular looking the prevention of ill health, early intervention and promotion of wellbeing.
What makes a forest, a community forest?
Unlike traditional forests, community forests are not geographically restricted to one place. Instead, they are spread out across a mix of community woodland, private woodland, on street, urban woodland, wooded habitat corridors, orchards, and hedgerows.