Green Social Prescribing (GSP) offers the opportunity to link the health benefits of parks to those who would most gain by spending time in a park.

Read all about the Green Recovery Challenge Funding for eight further sites in our Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole project.

Read about the growing Northern Brown Argus habitat.

It’s one of the trickiest areas the Future Parks Accelerator is grappling with. Mollie Dodd, FPA’s Commercial and Business Development Consultant, is helping our places think about opportunities to generate income.

Plymouth City Council recently launched a smartphone app called Love Exploring for their largest green space, Central Park. This sort of visitor intervention to increase human engagement and connection to the natural environment is one of the fastest growing, most widely accessible, and cost-effective ways of improving people’s wellbeing.

To mark COP26 we have done a round-up of some of the strategic work these councils are doing that also responds to the challenges of climate change.

Seeing streets, verges and parks blossom with wildflowers brings a beautiful simplicity to the beating heart of any city. But creating these spaces is far from simple, as those of us working in or alongside Local Authorities know. Here is a peek into Plymouth City Council’s (PCC) approach to accelerating this change.

Our aim is to ensure parks are inclusive, attractive and accessible for all, reaching those with the greatest needs. We are working to maximise the role our parks can play in addressing health inequalities: in particular looking the prevention of ill health, early intervention and promotion of wellbeing.

Unlike traditional forests, community forests are not geographically restricted to one place. Instead, they are spread out across a mix of community woodland, private woodland, on street, urban woodland, wooded habitat corridors, orchards, and hedgerows.