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Category: Case Studies - ideas to inspire people to take action
- Having a Management Plan allows ambitious partnership working to flourish – Friends of Troopers Hill, Bristol
- Safe volunteering as lockdown begins to lift
- How can Friends groups stay effective in a pandemic? We share some fantastic examples from around the UK
- Consulting with the community and developing a master plan – Latchmere Rec, Kingston upon Thames
- Restoring and managing a historic ‘People’s Park’ – Warley Woods Community Trust, Sandwell, West Midlands
- Creating a network of community orchards and forest gardens – Fruit and Nut Village, Stirchley, Birmingham
- Protecting a historic reservoir – Friends of Edgbaston Reservoir, Birmingham
- Engaging the generations – Friends of Hednesford Park, Cannock, West Midlands
- Restoration of 13th Century mill – Friends of Broadwaters, Wyre Forest, Worcestershire
- From an anti-social to a social space – Friends of East Rugby Group, Rugby
- Bringing together community groups to work with other stakeholders – Greenhavens Network, Sussex
- How to set up a Forum and some advice for creating a Friends Group – Sunderland Green and Open Spaces Forum
- Community engagement and partnership working – Green Tides (Adur and Worthing Green Spaces Partnership)
- Providing a hub for groups to come together – Brighton and Hove Green Spaces Forum
- Community-led regeneration and co-management of a major urban park – Lordship Rec, Haringey
- Community Empowerment Conference for parkscommunityuk
- Building a network: Birmingham Open Spaces Forum
- Friends of Central Park dog show
- Dukes Meadows: Local people organise together to save their park
- Tree Care at Meadow Orchard
- Saving Turn Moss from non-community use development
- Defeating a “land Grab” – Friends of Wandsworth Park
- Woodcock Park Mural – from eyesore to local landmark
- Green Tides: Adur and Worthing Green Spaces Partnership
- What can be achieved by organising a cricket fun day.
Category: Community Development
- What is community empowerment and how can we make it happen?
Category: Community Involvement
- Improve relationships with user groups who share your green space
- Making our groups stronger and more diverse
- Volunteering
Category: Constitutions & Governance
- Sample constitution for a Friends group.
- Sample Constitution
- Holding an Annual General Meeting (AGM)
- Sample Meeting Agenda
- How to be an effective chairperson
- How to be an effective secretary
- How to be an effective treasurer
- Friends’ Forum Sample Constitution
Category: Environmental Projects
- How to run a BioBlitz
- Green roofs
Category: Events & Activities
- Highlights from the final Parks Community UK ‘Rethinking Parks’ workshop
Category: Funding
- Festivals and events in our parks; a money generator but is it a step too far?
- Fundraising Guide For Community Groups
- Funding – Tips for Success
- Applying for grant funding
- Applying for a grant for a big project
- Sources of funding
- Landfill trust funding
- Steps to successful environmental grant applications
Category: How To
- How to campaign to save your park or green space
Category: Latest
- Events in London’s Parks: The Friends’ perspective
Category: Managing Finances
- Opening a bank account for voluntary and community organisations
- Using Excel to keep your financial records
Category: Nature and Ecology Activities
Category: News
- How to deliver effective greenspace programmes for mental health
- Community empowerment in green spaces
- “Better Outside” resources from Greenspace Scotland
- Liverpool City Council makes pioneering commitment to protect all parks and green spaces forever
- “Friends United”
- Enjoy inspiring talks from ‘Rethinking the Future of Parks’
- Can parks serve our every need?
- Free membership of TCV
- New network calls on government to deliver truly green recovery
- People want fairer, greener Britain after Covid
- New forum aims to help protect Horsham’s green spaces
- Free nature activity packs to help with #homeschooling during the pandemic from Fields in Trust
- Communities secretary says 340 parks now reopened in time for fifth weekend of lockdown: “People Need Parks”
- Online communication tools for Friends Groups
- The coronavirus public health crisis – what we can all do?
- Can you help us with some feedback?
- We are now on Twitter!
Category: Other resources
- Bromley Park Friends Toolkit
Category: Park & Green Space Management
- Management Plans – how are they helpful?
- Greenspace Partnership Working between Friends Groups and Landowners and Managers
- A guide to producing green space and park management plans
- Maintaining Land
- Bog gardens
- Management of a pond and surrounding area
- Plants for Ponds
- Fencing
- Wild Flower Meadows
- Tips for planning practical conservation work in parks and green spaces
- Turf seats
Category: Publicity, Marketing, Media
- How to promote your group and park: a helpful guide from the London Friends of Green Spaces network.
- How to do a radio interview
- Publicity
Category: Running Events
- Arranging an event
- Communications
- Photographic Displays
- Running wildlife activities at public events
- Suggested list of possibilities for events
- Events: your obligations
- Ensuring your event is accessible
- Guided Walks
- Event licencing
- Pond Dipping
Category: Running your group
- Insurance
Category: Setting up a Friends' Forum
- Setting up a Friends’ Forum
- Role of a green space forum
- Setting up a forum of friends’ groups
Category: Starting a Friends Group
- Passport to success
- Ladder of Participation
- Let’s be ‘Friends’!
- How to Set Up and Maintain a Community Group for Parks and Green Space
Category: Tree Management
- Coppicing trees and shrubs
- Tree Management
- Identifying trees
- Tree Surgery
- Growing trees and shrubs from seed
- Wood
- Tree Wardens
Category: Volunteers
- Recruiting and Managing Volunteers
Category: Wildlife
- Monthly Jobs
- Nesting & Nest Boxes
- Wildlife and Park Friends Groups
- Bumblebees
- Butterflies
- Plants for feeding butterflies and birds
- Bats

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