Welcome to Rural Greens!
Rural Greens is a project to build capacity within rural communities across the county in helping protect, manage and enhance the green spaces in and around the places where you live. The project builds on the work we started last year in the Open Spaces, Green Places planning phase but this time we're being supported by Defra's Rural Social and Community Programme and Friends of the Lake District.
We're working with CALC who are helping us develop good links with Parish Councils; with Cumbria County Council's Rural Matters department and getting lots of help and information from the Neighbourhood Development Officer team; with VAC and their Rural Development Officers and of course with the FLD staff (policy, project and support). As with the previous project we're focusing on the green spaces in or near to the towns and villages where you live. These might be everything from the local play area, to a more traditional registered Village Green or the grassy areas along the roads or becks. |
part of Hesket Newmarket's green space |
Bassenthwaite play area | The project started in January 2007 and runs to March 2008. In this time we'll be coming out to Neighbourhood Forum meetings, to Parish Councils and other local groups to have a chat about green spaces, particularly the ones near you and any concerns or ideas you have about those. To help you help yourselves we'll be offering some workshops covering green space management themes such as how to work through the legalities of Village Greens and how to manage for a more diverse natural habitat. We'll make sure the workshops are short, relevant, at a place near you and have a good selection of local food and drink to help things along! |
In addition Jo, the Outreach Officer, will be available to come out to your community and offer specific advice and guidance on what you're interested in doing with your green space. Finally we'll be developing this web site and several booklets and other information resources on the green space management themes that are most relevant to people in Cumbria. To find out more please contact Jo via jo-chaffer@fld.org.uk
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Queen's Gardens, Sedbergh |
Dufton village green |
NetherWasdale VG aerial photo |
For information on the second round of green space managers workshops this autumn click here
For an update on the Open Spaces, Green Places project and some useful green space web links click here
Publications
Open Green Spaces: A Legal Guide to Open Green Space Management.
Open Green Spaces: An Introduction to Managing for Wildlife
Open Green Spaces: A Guide to Common Management Issues
The second in the series of guides produced by the Rural Greens project to support community leaders manage their green spaces. This guide gives realistic, practical information and advice for Parish Councillors and community groups thinking about improving the wildlife value of their community's green spaces.
Please contact Jo Chaffer, Rural Greens if you'd like a hard copy of this guide.
First Steps on the Green Funding Trail' guide
Useful links
If you are looking for legal advice about issues relating to green spaces visit these links for more information
We've produced a newsletter in collaboration with the two other FLD projects, Rural Roads and Overhead Wires. To download a copy return to the FLD homepage.
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| Rural Greens - for all your green space matters |
