Parks Community UK took part in a fantastic parks and green spaces event last month – ‘Rethinking the Future of Parks’. Tickets sold out quickly and an extra allocation had to be added; the final tally showed 425 people had registered for the event. Parks and green spaces are a hot topic in 2020!
Organised by our partners at Nesta, the Future Parks Accelerator, the National Lottery Heritage Fund and the National Lottery Community Fund, the sessions shared learning and ideas from parks and green space innovators across the country. Parks Community UK was proud to take part in Session 1 as part of the the “Community Involvement & Participation” discussion.
The event was recorded and has now been edited into handy bitesize chunks according to the session topics listed below.
Visit the #RethinkingFutureParks home page to access all the talks.
Session 1: The innovation imperative to rethink parks.
- Income and Funding
- Cathi Farrer, Bournemouth Parks Foundation
- Rob Acton-Campbell & Charlee Bennett, Bristol and Bath Parks Foundation
- Emma Trickett, Love Leeds Parks
- Community Involvement & Participation
- Colin Harker, Par Track
- Dave Morris & Paul Ely, Parks Community UK
- Gill Moore, Friends of Turn Moss
- John Thorne, London Boroughs of Camden & Islington
- Smarter parks and green spaces
- James Dymond, Nottingham City Council
- Lucy Kennedy, EcoRecord & Sara Cavalho, Spottitt
- Valuing and enhancing our natural resources
- Neil Jones, Possible
- Bruce Irving, London Borough of Hackney
- John Maslen, ParkPower project, greenspace scotland
- Donya Davidson, Edinburgh City Council / Scottish Wildlife Trust
- Working at a landscape scale
- Michael Rowland & Mark Holloway, Bournemouth, Christchurch & Poole Council
- Oliver Burke, Nene Park Trust, Cambridgeshire & Peterborough
- Nick Grayson, Birmingham City Council
- Barbara Hooper, Urban Green Newcastle
Session 2: What next for innovation to support the future of parks and green spaces?
- Will Covid-19 make parks even less accessible? – Joy Green @FuturesCentre
- De-traumatising the city – Beth Collier @WildintheCity1
- Valuing the invaluable – Holly Lewis @we_made_that
- What if we thought about localities the way we think about gardens? – Sue Goss @suegossthoughts
- News from nowhere gardens – Kate Swade @kateswade
- The park is dead. Long live the park – Dan Hill @cityofsound