Presentation to the Friends of Edinburgh Parks Forum on the MyParkScotland project

4. The Rethinking Parks projects:
• Bloomsbury Squared
• Coastal Parks and
Garden Foundation
• Darlington Parks
Improvement District
• Eastbrookend Rekindled
• Endowing Parks for the
21st Century
• Everton Park - A
Community Hub
• Go to the Park, Burnley
• Heeley Park Subscription
Society, Sheffield
• MyParkScotland
• Park Hack, Hackney,
London
• ParkWork, Bristol

5. What is MyParkScotland?

6. What is MyParkScotland?
• Projects will be placed on the website to
seek funding
• People can find out about Friends Groups
• A website where people can discover and
support parks

7. The survey
• 61% visit parks at least once a week
• 62% spending time in parks in very
important to their quality of life
• 48% think the current condition of their
park is good (fair = 41%)
but 224 people still had suggestions about how to
improve their local park(s)

8. The survey(continued)
More information wanted about:
66% - what’s on
57% - facilities
50% - park projects looking for volunteers

9. The survey(continued)
Getting involved:
47% would donate to one-off park project
41% would volunteer time or skills
28% would make a one-off donation to park
25% would donate items

10. Where are we today?
Getting involved:
• Want to hear from
Friends Groups
who have project
ideas
• People to help us
test website in
2015

11. Find out more…bit.ly/myparkscot
Coming soon…www.mypark.scot
@myparkscot