This site will give you practical guidance and resources to help improve your green spaces through:
We've also got a library of showcase projects to help inspire you, and a range of volunteering and employment opportunites so you can get involved.
If you’re a Housing Provider and want to find out how your organisation can benefit from our experience:
Our plan saw open spaces transformed into well-designed areas for local people to enjoy.
Proposals included creating:
- Parks and community gardens
- Sports facilities
- Play areas
- Wildlife habitats
- Sensory gardens
- Green social enterprises.
The project's plans included over 70 neighbourhoods. We looked at each neighbourhood individually and designed each space to suit the local community's needs. This means more than 19,000 people have benefitted from the project.
The aim of Green Spaces for People was to both transform outdoor areas and improve the quality of life for people in these neighbourhoods.
Well-designed green spaces promote social cohesion; bringing the community together and reducing anti-social behaviour. Individual projects also:
- Improve people's health
- Enhance wildlife and biodiversity
- Help reduce the impact of housing on the environment.
The Green Spaces Portfolio was hugely successful in meeting its planned objectives. It significantly overachieved on most of its output targets.
Highlights include:
- Working with a diverse range of local communities to regenerate over 80 acres of urban land.
- Delivered 84 accessible community Green Space Projects (against a target of 75) based on local community requirements.
- Delivered over 520 community consultation events to facilitate collaboration and ownership of the regenerated green spaces. These events were attended by over 14,850 local residents.
- Organised a wide range of events to develop community cohesion and local civic pride around the green spaces. These events were attended by over 53,000 local people.
- Provided over 1400 volunteering opportunities to develop both individual and community capacity.
- Created over 50 local jobs and various training and apprenticeship opportunities to support the social and economic aspirations of local people.
- Secured over £2.7 million of matched funding to support improved biodiversity.
- Developed organisational and community capacity to sustain the green space investment after the grant award finished.
