1. YORKS & NE
• Greenspace • Newcastle parks - Leazes Park
• HLF • The Leas
• Future of Parks • North Tyneside Parks
• Gateshead Country Parks
• Kirklees
MIDLANDS
NORTHW EST • Sheffield parks & green space
• Manchester – Heaton
Park • Birmingham
• Canal • Derbyshire
• Liverpool Festival • Peak District as back yard
Gardens
• Everton Park
EAST
NI •Essex country
•? parks
LONDON
W ales • Sponsorship of Highline
•Tredegar event
•Wandle Valley
• Scoping document
• London Mayor’s Pocket
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2. Advantages
• Its at heart of our core purpose
• It could have a positive impact on the brand
• It’s emotive – who else can address the threat?
• Health & wellbeing benefits – people need it and want it.
• Conservation and ecological benefits – wildlife and climate change
• New partnerships
• It’s relevant to people’s lives
• Able to reach people who don’t currently connect with NT
• Often people’s first connection with outdoors - ‘50 things’
• Democratises concept of ‘Special Places’
• Cities are where people live and work
• It could play part in sustaining the organisation
3. Disadvantages
Could become all we do or risks being hived off into a special category
• Money – more cuts to come could be really messy
• Reputation - Not fully understanding the situation
• Perception – not for us
• Outside of cultural comfort zone – esp. amongst some members & traditional
audiences
• We have an ambiguous role, people do want to work with us but we cannot do
what LAs have always done
• Risks creating a dependency culture
• It’s a very competitive market
• Such a huge agenda need to work out best place for us
4. A typology of green space
• Parks and gardens, including parks, country parks & greenfield
• Natural and semi-natural green spaces, including woodlands,
scrub, commons, meadows, wetlands, and wastelands
• Amenity green space and domestic private gardens
• Allotments and growing spaces, including orchards and farms
• Cemeteries & churchyards, if of historic or of heritage interest
• Green corridors/ infrastructure, including waterway corridors
5. Delivery & funding models
• Explored the different delivery and funding models
• Spectrum of intensity, but most intense is possibly easiest of
Trust
• Partnerships, enabling and facilitating access most likely
models to pursue. Quite different for the Trust
8. What next?
• Better understanding of conversations and involvement
– Please fill in map on the wall
• Mapping exercise exploring state of the nation and need
• Position paper – probably focussed on deficit.
– Either physical or community infrastructure
– Need also to look at models - Partnerships and
enabling models very important
– Capacity and funding
