A new Friends Group forum in Sussex aims to help protect Horsham’s green spaces. It was created in response to possible development at Rookwood Golf Course.
10 Sept 2020
News
Events in London’s Parks: The Friends’ perspective
A new report with extensive contributions from London Friends of Parks groups has been released, looking at the increasing use of London’s Parks and green spaces for events. The report has an introduction by Dave Morris chair of the National Federation of Parks and Greenspaces.
July 14 2020
Festivals and events in our parks; a money generator but is it a step too far?
Events taking place in open green spaces generate useful money for Councils, but local communities can be significantly disadvantaged. Research as park of the Festspace project looks into this contentious issue.
2 July 2020
Free nature activity packs to help with #homeschooling during the pandemic from Fields in Trust
We are entering into the seventh week of #lockdown as we all work together to try to contain the spread of the COVID-19 virus. There are 8 different activities on offer and all are free for dowload from Fields in Trust.
6 May 2020.
Communities secretary says 340 parks now reopened in time for fifth weekend of lockdown: “People Need Parks”
Communities secretary says 340 parks now reopened in time for fifth weekend of lockdown: “People Need Parks”
25 April 2020.
Online communication tools for Friends Groups
Sometimes is isn’t possible to have a group discussion or hold a meeting face-to-face, in those situations what else can we do? There are now a multitude of ways to keep in touch, hold a discussion or make decisions remotely and many of these are free.
The coronavirus public health crisis – what we can all do?
The coronavirus public health crisis – what we can all do?
A statement from the National Federation of Parks and Green Spaces.
16 March 2020
Can you help us with some feedback?
The Parks Community website is currently being given an overhaul and we are now looking for some feedback from our users. To make things easy, we have created a simple 5 minute survey: There’s questions on ease of use, design and content, plus a section for you to suggest topics you would like to see […]
We are now on Twitter!
Hello! We now have a twitter account to go with this new website. We are @ParksCommUK so please do follow us. Social media will help us to find other Friends Groups we can help and interact with our community. Hopefully it can also help other Groups to find each other too. As we are new, […]
