Bristol Parks Forum

[Jo Corke]

Bristol Parks Forum is the umbrella organisation for community park groups and organisations in the city with an interest in their local parks and green spaces.

You can find their website here  In the Meetings section you will find the Minutes of previous meetings and the Agenda for the coming meeting.

Strictly speaking it is the group that is a member of the BPF, though they are happy to add several people from each group to the mailing list. Also anyone from the group is welcome to attend BPF meetings, though strictly speaking there should only be two representatives from each group. We would only need to restrict our numbers if the meetings became too popular!

Currently we have three Friends of St Andrews Park (FOSAP) interested in BPF, but it is an open group and you would be welcome too.

John Mayne, Jo Corke, Steve Perry.
Minutes of the previous BPF Meeting,  at: www.bristolparksforum.org.uk/#meetings 
As well as official minutes we get informal newsletters and we publish them  below.

From October 2017 follow  the MailChimp  links for the  newsletters.  

Newsletter 249

Newsletter 248

Newsletter 247

Newsletter 246

Newsletter 245

Newsletter 244

Good news from Nesta

Parks future funding   Statement to Cabinet April 2018





BPF Consultation



Previous newsletters can be read at www.bristolparksforum.org.uk/contacts/previous-updates/ 

[Jo Corke]

In this update 249: 

• Parks Foundation Update
• AWT Community Volunteer Event
• Contacting Bristol Parks
• BPF Vision
• Help Bristol & Bath Region Win The City Nature Challenge

[Jo Corke]

Newsletter 248
In this update: 

• BPF Meeting 16th February
• Parks Foundation Update
• Imagine the Slopes in 2030
• Budget & Extra money from Central Government
• Bristol Forum
• Visit Bristol's A to Z of Bristol

[Jo Corke]

Newsletter 245: In this update: 

• Parks Volunteer Coordinator
• Parks Foundation Progress
• Parks Foundation Stakeholder Workshops
• Future Proof Parks, Young Rangers
• Pocket parks plus
• 2019 Meeting Dates & Venues
• Messages from the Wild

[Jo Corke]

Following direction at a previous Fosap committee meeting, FoSAP has supported the Bristol Parks Forum Vision Statement.

It may be of interest to read the Green Councillors support at:

https://www.bristolgreenparty.org.uk/news/green-councillors-support...

They made several suggestions, some of which would address issues in our park.

[Jo Corke]

Newsletter 244 In this Update:

In this update: 

• Richard Bland
• Tree of the Year 2018
• Health & Safety and 1st Aid Training
• Support from Our Universities
• Soil Survey Information
• 2019/20 BCC Budget Consultation

[Jo Corke]

Parks and Green Spaces Budget Consultation
Briefing for groups and Forum members

Th BPF committee has put together thier thoughts on the current Parks Consultation.

Rather than a draft of their response they have put together a briefing note settng out the main points that they  intend to make and giving some guidance.

There is also a separate paper with our thoughts on the possibility of a Trust or Foundation, there are links to both below:

www.bristolparksforum.org.uk/ConsultationBriefing.pdf

www.bristolparksforum.org.uk/BristolParksFoundation.pdf