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CELEBRATING PARKS: Marking anniversaries and looking to the future
As we conclude our Summer of Parks week focused on celebrating local parks and green spaces it's all about anniversaries, with a number of parks toasting major birthdays at the moment.
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CELEBRATING PARKS: In conversation with Chris Worman MBE
As part of our Summer of Parks week celebrating parks, we chat with green space professional Chris Worman MBE.
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CELEBRATING PARKS: The story of Starbank Park
As we celebrate parks and green spaces this week we turn the spotlight on Starbank Park in Edinburgh and the work of their active Friends of group.
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CELEBRATING PARKS: Parks in your pocket
This week as we celebrate parks and green spaces we take a look at some app options to download to enhance your park experience.
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FUNDING OF PARKS: Discussing guidance and support on obtaining funding
In the third staff blog of our 'Summer of Parks' our Events & Membership Officer, Shannon Newton, discusses how Fields in Trust can offer guidance and support on obtaining funding for your local park or green space.
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FUNDING OF PARKS: Six places to start your search for grant funding
An area which is often very beneficial to parks and green spaces is grant funding. Here we outline six places to start your search.
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FUNDING OF PARKS: Spotlight on Stradishall Parish Council
As we discuss the funding of parks and green spaces this week we shine the spotlight on Stradishall Parish Council and their community fundraising efforts which led to their purchase of the local playing field.
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FUNDING OF PARKS: Five Top Tips For Crowdfunding
Ian Goodman from MyParkScotland shares his five top tips for crowdfunding for your park or green space.
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FUNDING OF PARKS: A Royal Legacy
As we start our 'Summer of Parks' week discussing funding of parks and green spaces, a look back on the contribution of HRH The Duke of Edinburgh to the 'Playing Fields Movement'.
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INFORMAL COMMUNITIES: Parks bringing people together
In the second on this summer's staff blogs, Angela Lewis discusses how parks bring people together and create informal communities.
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INFORMAL COMMUNITIES: Eight ideas for your Have a Field Day
Have a Field Day is about getting out and enjoying our local parks and green spaces. Here's eight ideas for your Have a Field Day that you can also get others involved with!
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INFORMAL COMMUNITIES: Spotlight on Norman McCarley and Brynmill Park
As our Summer of Parks looks at at informal communities in parks and green spaces, we focus on one champion who has dedicated himself to bringing people together: Norman McCarley from the Friends of Brynmill Park in Swansea.
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PROVISION: The ten-minute walk and why it’s important
One of five indices in our Green Space Index measures accessibility of parks and green spaces based on the number of people not living within a ten-minute walking distance. Why is it important to measure this, and why ten-minutes?
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PROVISION: Spotlight on Islington Borough Council
An in depth look at provision in the London Borough of Islington and how they are working to protect their parks and green spaces for future generations.
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PROVISION: Compiling the Green Space Index
In our latest staff blog our Digital & Campaigns Officer, Jamie Grubb, reflects on compiling the Green Space Index and looks ahead to its future.
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SUMMER OF PARKS: What does the evidence tell us and why does it matter?
A review of the cross-cutting policy impact of parks and green spaces, as our Summer of Parks gets underway.
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SUMMER OF PARKS: Championing our green spaces this summer
Between now and mid-September, we'll be celebrating everything that we all love about our local parks and green spaces, leading discussions on the issues affecting parks and giving you plenty of opportunities to get involved along the way.
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Durban groundsman goes the extra mile for Fields in Trust
This Sunday four runners will line-up at the start of the Virgin Money London Marathon to raise money towards Fields in Trust's work to protect, support and champion green spaces for good.
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Council plans for park booking system labelled a disgrace
Fields in Trust have condemned plans by one local council to limit their residents' access to local parks by implementing a new booking system, allowing the sell-off of swathes of green space.
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PROTECT: Mid and East Antrim Borough Council securing spaces for future generations
War Memorial Park in Ballymena has become the latest space in Mid and East Antrim to be protected in perpetuity with Fields in Trust. Nine parks and green spaces across the borough are now secured for future generations.
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PROTECT: 90 years working for Northern Ireland's green spaces
Today marks 90 years of Fields in Trust’s work to protect, support and champion parks and green spaces in Northern Ireland. In the time since 29 spaces have been protected in perpetuity.
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COMMENT: Parks and Green Spaces - an invaluable asset?
In the latest of our Fields in Trust staff blogs, Policy Manager Alison McCann responds to the announcement by Secretary of State, James Brokenshire MP of £13M in additional funding for parks and green spaces.
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A Look Back On 2018
This has been a busy year for Fields in Trust and the parks and green spaces sector as a whole. Here we take a look back on some of the highlights and events of note from 2018.
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CHAMPION: One year in the life of the UK's Best Park
In our first guest blog Elaine Smith MBE, Chairman of The Friends of Stanley Park and the Salisbury Woodland, discusses one year in the life of the UK's Best Park.
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POLICY: Valuation in Practice
In the latest of our Fields in Trust staff blogs, Policy Manager Alison McCann reflects on our commissioned piece of research, Revaluing Parks and Green Spaces, from earlier this year.
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PROTECT: Reflecting on Remembrance
In our latest staff blog our Head of Programmes, Angela Lewis, looks back on the World War I commemorations and discusses the legacy our Centenary Fields programme is leaving.
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PROTECT: Centenary Fields Legacy Week Fourteen
All the stories from the final week of our Centenary Fields Legacy campaign which featured spaces from each of the four home nations.
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PROTECT: Centenary Fields Legacy and the Commonwealth
Six of the spaces featured as part of Centenary Fields Legacy have links to those from Commonwealth countries who fought for and with the British Army in World War I.
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COMMENT: Prevention is better than cure
Alison McCann responds to the publication of the new NHS strategy which focuses on prevention.
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PROTECT: Spaces across the UK marking Armistice centenary
Centenary Fields across the UK will be holding remembrance events this week to mark the centenary of the end of World War I.
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PROTECT: Centenary Fields Legacy Week Thirteen
A round-up of all the stories from the thirteenth week of Centenary Fields Legacy, which featured spaces which are or include memorials to the fallen.
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PROTECT: Telling the stories of the Centenary Fields Legacy
Ahead of the conclusion of our Centenary Fields Legacy campaign in our latest staff blog our Digital & Campaigns Officer, Jamie Grubb, looks back on putting the campaign together and reflects on some of the stories it has told.
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PROTECT: Centenary Fields Legacy Week Twelve
As we move to within a fortnight of the centenary of the Armistice, this week our Centenary Fields Legacy campaign featured spaces covering the length and breadth of the UK – from Cornwall to the Highlands and from Norfolk to Antrim.
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COMMENT: Budget 2018 - investing in our parks and green spaces
In our latest staff blog Fields in Trust's Policy Manager, Alison McCann, looks ahead to Monday's Budget statement and the importance of supporting parks and green spaces to achieve multiple policy agendas.
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PROTECT: Securing our memorial spaces in perpetuity
As we approach the centenary of the Armistice, in our latest staff blog our Head of Programmes, Angela Lewis, discusses our Centenary Fields programme and the importance of ensuring our memorial spaces remain protected in perpetuity.
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PROTECT: Centenary Fields Legacy Week Eleven
This week our Centenary Fields Legacy campaign passed its three-quarter mark, meaning there are now over 70 stories on our interactive map of spaces which are protected forever.
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PROTECT: Centenary Fields Legacy Week Ten
As our Centenary Fields Legacy campaign moves into its final month, this week all the spaces featured served the ongoing war effort by a variety of means.
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PROTECT: Centenary Fields Legacy Week Nine
The completion of the ninth week of our Centenary Fields Legacy programme means that 100 years ago the Great War was just five weeks from its conclusion.
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PROTECT: Centenary Fields Legacy Week Eight
This week our Centenary Fields Legacy campaign passed its half-way point, marking 50 days since the start of the 100 Days Offensive a century ago.
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PROTECT: Kensington Memorial Park marks mid-point of Centenary Fields Legacy
Today our Centenary Fields Legacy campaign reaches its mid-point by featuring Kensington Memorial Park. It was at this space two years ago that Fields in Trust’s President, HRH The Duke of Cambridge unveiling a Centenary Fields plaque.
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PROTECT: Centenary Fields Legacy Week Seven
It is estimated that around 70 million military personnel were mobilised during World War I with around 20 million deaths and a further 21 million wounded as a direct result of the conflict.
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PROTECT: Parks protected in perpetuity to support community activities
Four UK parks are set to benefit from £100,000 of investment which will encourage local people to get active in their local park. Capital grants from The London Marathon Charitable Trust have been awarded through the Active Spaces programme.
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PROTECT: Centenary Fields Legacy Week Six
Remembrance is much more than just 11am on Sunday 11th November each year, and as our Centenary Fields Legacy campaign is showing, marking the events of 100 years ago can take many forms.
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COMMENT: Creating a healthy, happy environment to live
Frequent use of parks and green spaces is good for you, fact. But how many of us visit these free to use spaces on a regular basis?
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PROTECT: Centenary Fields Legacy Week Five
Many acts of memorial to those who fought and fell in World War I were carried out in the years that immediately followed the end of conflict, with the personalities who didn't return still in the memories of those they left behind.
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PROTECT: Centenary Fields Legacy Week Four
With the fourth week of our Centenary Fields Legacy programme now complete the interactive map is starting to fill up with spaces all across the UK protected in perpetuity in memory of the millions who lost their lives during World War I.
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PROTECT: Centenary Fields Legacy Week Three
The third week of Centenary Fields Legacy has featured seven spaces with contemporary links to World War I.
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CHAMPION: Engaging young people with heritage parks
Fields in Trust has partnered with green space charity, Groundwork and The National Youth Agency, to launch 'Future Proof Parks', a £900k National Lottery-funded programme that will support Friends of parks groups and local young people
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PROTECT: Centenary Fields Legacy Week Two
During the second week of Centenary Fields Legacy we have focussed in on the years which immediately followed the conclusion of conflict and the local efforts to remember those who fell.
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PROTECT: Centenary Fields Legacy Week One
Fields in Trust this week launched our Centenary Fields Legacy campaign, where each day we'll be featuring one space protected as part of the Centenary Fields programme in memory of those who lost their lives during World War I.
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PROTECT: Marking the Centenary Fields Legacy
As we begin our Centenary Fields Legacy campaign Fields in Trust Head of Programmes, Angela Lewis, discusses what will be happening over the coming weeks.
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PROTECT: 80 years on from the first King George’s Field
Today, 16th July, marks the 80th anniversary of the legal protection of King George V Playing Field in Sonning, Berkshire, identified as "the first field" of the 471 contained within the Final Report of the King George's Fields Foundation.
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CHAMPION: Thousands enjoy Have a Field Day fun in the sun
An estimated 30,000 park lovers across the country enjoyed a fun filled day at the park on Have a Field Day on Saturday 7th July. Hundreds of events took place right across the UK from small community picnics to large parties and fetes.
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PROTECT: Local MP unveils latest Centenary Fields plaque in Lancashire
Brindle Community Hall and its surrounding recreational land became the fifth space protected in Lancashire as part of the Centenary Fields programme last weekend.
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CHAMPION: Have a Field Day and celebrate the UK’s parks and green spaces
Thousands of people, in hundreds of communities across the UK, will come together this weekend to celebrate local parks and green spaces as part of Have a Field Day on Saturday 7th July.
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CHAMPION: Explore your local green space with Go Jauntly
Fields in Trust are delighted to be partnering with Go Jauntly, an app which helps everyone discover local walks and adventures.
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