Greenspace Scotland

December greenspace scotland ebulletin out now!

Essential reading and the place to keep updated on all things greenspace, including news, funding, events and research. Read more
Counting down to Christmas

Celebrate greenspaces this December with our green advent calendar on Twitter and Facebook Read more
Project of the month: Catherine Street Inclusive Park and Community Garden, Dumfries

Our December project of the month is a great example of partnership working between the local charity Include Us, local community, statutory bodies, third sector and private business facilitated by Community Asset Transfer legislation Read more
ParkPower: green energy from Scotland’s greenspaces

greenspace scotland is delighted to be working with Locogen on our innovative ParkPower project to transform Scotland’s parks from expensive overheads into valuable green energy assets. Read more

Transforming urban spaces into people places

Greenspace makes our lives and places better

What we do

ParkPower Project

Understanding the green energy potential of parks and greenspaces across Scotland

Young Placechangers Ideas Fund

Is there anything you and your youth group would like to change about the place where you live, go to school or work?

90%

of urban Scots say it’s important to have greenspace in their area

1593km²

is the area of urban greenspace in scotland – equivalent to area of 22 Loch Lomonds

1 in 4

Scots say the quality of their greenspace has declined in the last 5 years

Get involved

Find and enjoy greenspace

Explore and discover Scotland's wonderful parks and greenspaces using Scotland's greenspace map and MyParkScotland

Support parks

The Scottish Parks Endowment Fund is an easy and simple way for everyone who uses and loves Scotland’s parks to make a donation, large or small, to support our treasured parks.

Bags of Help grants

This grant programme will be reopening soon and we will be welcoming applications for in store voting scheduled to commence from January 2020.

News

Climate change: Plans to double Swansea's green space

Plans to double the amount of green space in Swansea over the next decade could help the city adjust to climate change, according to the council and Natural Resources Wales (NRW). Read more
Dundee Climate Action Plan launched

Today saw the launch of the Dundee Climate Action Plan in response to the declaration in June 2019 by the Council declared of a Climate Emergency, Read more
Social prescribing report published

On Wednesday 4 December the Scottish Parliament Health and Sport Committee published a report in to social prescribing. Read more

Project of the Month

Project of the month: Catherine Street Inclusive Park and Community Garden, Dumfries

Our December project of the month is a great example of partnership working between the local charity Include Us, local community, statutory bodies, third sector and private business facilitated by Community Asset Transfer legislation Read more
Glasgow's Sauchiehall Street gets greener

Our project of the month for Nov is Sauchiehall Street Avenue, the first of Glasgow’s completed ‘Avenues’ featuring a variety of street trees. Read more
Building stronger communities block by block

Project of the Month for October is the Block by Block Foundation an innovative collaboration between Mojang, Microsoft, and UN-Habitat. The Foundation's work integrate the computer game Minecraft into public space planning with communities Read more