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 279

Newsletter 278

Newsletter 277

Newsletter 276

Newsletter 275

Newsletter 274

Newsletter 273

Newsletter 272

Newsletter 271
Social Distancing in the park

Newsletter 270

Parks & formal volunteering

Bristol Wins

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]

Newsletter 279:

In this update: 

• Parks Forum Ecological & Climate Emergency Meetings
• Bristol Parks Survey Closing Friday 31st July
• Improving Access to Green Space
• Volunteering in Parks

[Jo Corke]

Newsletter 278: 

• Survey of Park Group Members
• Volunteering Update
• Future Parks Community Events
• Parks Forum Member Groups

[Jo Corke]

Newsletter 277

In this update: 

• Play Areas in Bristol Open Monday 6th July
• Ecological Emergency Meeting
• Volunteering Updates on Zoom
• West of England Nature Partnership
• Future Parks Community Events
• Bristol Parks Survey  

[Jo Corke]

Newsletter 276.

In this update: 

• Making Parks Count - The Case for Parks
• Ecological Emergency Meeting – Sat 27th June 10am to 11.30am
• Parks Volunteering Updates on Zoom

[Jo Corke]

Newsletter 275:

In this update: 

• Ecological Emergency Meeting – Sat 27th June 10am to 11.30am.
• Sad News
• Volunteering Update
• 25 Years of Local Nature Reserves in Bristol

[Jo Corke]

Newsletter 274:

In this update: 

• Volunteering Update
• Operations Manager – North
• Friends of Old Sneed Park Nature Reserve
• A Park Group for Ashton Court?
• My Wild North Bristol?
• Redland Green Tree Trail
• Update from the National Federation of Parks & Green Spaces
• Parks Survey
• Ecological Emergency Meeting – Save the Date

[Jo Corke]

Newsletter 273

In this update: 

• Parks Volunteering
• Parks Survey
• Use of Scythes to help maintenance of Parks and Green Spaces in Bri...

[Jo Corke]

Newsletter 272

In this update: 

• Prime Minister’s Statement
• Volunteering in Parks
• Recruiting - Ecological Emergency Project Manager
• The Green Way

[Jo Corke]

There is ongoing advice about using the Park at this BPF Mailchimp link.

[Jo Corke]

This advice has come from Jon James as Head of Parks and is supported by the Parks Forum Committee after discussions with Ella Hogg. As a result of the recent statement from the Government all formal volunteering in parks should now stop.

This is not to imply in anyway that parks are closed. In fact they are more important now than ever as places where people who are not self-isolating can get out in the fresh air and enjoy nature. But do so while keeping a distance between yourself and other visitors.

It might be an ideal opportunity to visit those less well known spaces or parts of spaces.

Also as individuals you can still do your bit by litter picking etc.