Parks Petition 2014
I’m sure most of you also visit and enjoy other green spaces regularly, and we hope that you’ll feel able sign up to the UK Parks Petition. Our Friends group belongs to the Friends of Greenwood Community Forum, which in turn is a member of the National Federation of Parks and Green Spaces. This is an umbrella organisation for the UK’s Friends of Parks Forums and the Friends Group movement. The Federation recently launched the petition. Here’s an extract from their recent letter:
Please support the UK Parks Petition
Help prevent the slide into crisis of the UK’s green spaces
90% of the UK population visit parks and green spaces, creating between 2.5 - 4 billion visits annually. They are an essential resource and service, vital to every community and serving important needs for people of all ages and interests.
However the June 2014 ‘State of UK Public Parks - Renaissance to Risk?’ report by the Heritage Lottery Fund documents the risks to parks caused by underfunding. It is hoped that this important and timely document will inform and influence decision-making on the future of our green spaces. We are now at a tipping point. It is up to all of us to raise our voices together. Our green spaces need the recognition, protection and resources they deserve, and now is the time for everyone to speak out!
The National Federation is therefore launching a petition, to be a positive public response to the report and to the crisis in parks funding. It aims to help raise the political profile and make parks an election issue for political parties and for the next Government in 2015.
You can sign it now using any of these links:-
http://chn.ge/TXdqhj
www.natfedparks.org.uk and click on ‘parks petition’.
www.facebook.com/LoveParksWeek and Twitter@LoveParks_Week#LoveParks.
www.natfedparks.org.uk - click on ‘parks petition’.
Please add your individual support to this petition, as well as enjoying our parks and green spaces this summer!
If you wish to read the Heritage Lottery Fund report it is here.
Please support the UK Parks Petition
Help prevent the slide into crisis of the UK’s green spaces
90% of the UK population visit parks and green spaces, creating between 2.5 - 4 billion visits annually. They are an essential resource and service, vital to every community and serving important needs for people of all ages and interests.
However the June 2014 ‘State of UK Public Parks - Renaissance to Risk?’ report by the Heritage Lottery Fund documents the risks to parks caused by underfunding. It is hoped that this important and timely document will inform and influence decision-making on the future of our green spaces. We are now at a tipping point. It is up to all of us to raise our voices together. Our green spaces need the recognition, protection and resources they deserve, and now is the time for everyone to speak out!
The National Federation is therefore launching a petition, to be a positive public response to the report and to the crisis in parks funding. It aims to help raise the political profile and make parks an election issue for political parties and for the next Government in 2015.
You can sign it now using any of these links:-
http://chn.ge/TXdqhj
www.natfedparks.org.uk and click on ‘parks petition’.
www.facebook.com/LoveParksWeek and Twitter@LoveParks_Week#LoveParks.
www.natfedparks.org.uk - click on ‘parks petition’.
Please add your individual support to this petition, as well as enjoying our parks and green spaces this summer!
If you wish to read the Heritage Lottery Fund report it is here.
