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- Policy and guidance for Open Spaces
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Tools and Resources for Open Spaces
- What tools are available to help promote health through new developments?
- How can a community measure the quality of an open space?
- What can help inspire people to use open spaces to improve their levels of well-being?
- What funding is available?
What tools are available to help promote health through new developments?
| Title and description | Published by |
|---|---|
| Health & Urban Planning Toolkit Summary PDF A list of key steps for PCTs and boroughs planners |
NHS Healthy Urban Development Unit |
How can a community measure the quality of an open space?
| Title and description | Published by |
|---|---|
| Spaceshaper Spaceshaper is a practical toolkit to measure the quality of a public space before investing time and money in improving it. It captures the views of professionals who running the space as well as those of the people that use the space. Facilitated workshops discuss the results, design quality and how the space works for different people. |
CABEN/A |
| Community Street Audits Living Streets Community Street Audits identify issues and opportunities to enhance the public realm and encourage walking. Local knowledge is central to the process, as Living Streets believe that local people understand their area best. |
Living Streets |
| Park and Green Space Self-Assessment Guide PDF A practical guide for organisations that manage green space to help them assess the strengths and weaknesses of the space, draw up an improvement guide and plan the allocation of resources. |
CABE Space 2008 |
What can help inspire people to use open spaces to improve their levels of well-being?
| Title and description | Published by |
|---|---|
| It’s Our Space PDF A guide for community groups working to improve public space. Gives step by step guidance through four stages – prepare, design, construct and and use. |
CABE Space 2007 |
| Advice sessions for those in gardening, horticulture, forestry and floristry | Capel |
| Toolkit: guided walks PDF A 3 page guide to running a guided tour of a park including Must Dos and contingency planning. |
Park It! |
| Green-Space Toolkits PDF A range of downloadable toolkits for community groups. Topics range from promoting accessibility, promoting and marketing events, setting up a park or green space community group and involving young people. |
Green Space |
| Database of organic farms welcoming visitors The Soil Association’s guide to organic farms that can be visited. |
Soil Association |
What funding is available?
| Title and description | Published by |
|---|---|
| Access to Nature This programme encourages people from all backgrounds to learn more about and enjoy the natural environment. It funds projects in urban, rural and coastal communities and aims to reach people who currently have little or no contact with nature. |
Big Lottery Fund / Natural England |
| Mind - Ecominds programme This programme will fund projects that encourage people with experience of mental distress to get involved in environmental projects, such as improving open spaces and wildlife habitats, designing public art and recycling. |
Big Lottery Fund / Mind |
| Green Space Funding database Search the fundraising database for available grants and funding streams. |
Green Space |
| The London Tree and Woodland Grant Scheme The Forestry Commission, Groundwork London and the Mayor of London are working together to improve the trees and woodlands of London. | LTWG |
