News and Views
Future Parks Accelerator Evaluation
Future Parks Accelerator (FPA) conducted an evaluation during the three year partnership between the National Trust and the National Lottery Heritage Fund. Find out more.
Ten recommendations for transforming your urban green spaces
Discover the top ten recommendations from the Future Parks Accelerator for how to transform the green spaces in your places.
How Green Social Prescribing Could Save Your Parks Service
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.
Urban Nature Recovery, Bournemouth, Christchurch And Poole
Read all about the Green Recovery Challenge Funding for eight further sites in our Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole project.
Money money money… The potential and pitfalls of generating income
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.
Love Exploring – an app to bring parks to life
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.