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Holyrood Run

I am keen to run round Holyrood park again and this seems like the perfect opportunity.
Garden Centre Manager – The Brock Garden social enterprise, West Lothian

The Brock is a charity and social enterprise that provides constructive therapeutic work activities and facilitated social integration for people with chronic mental health conditions.
What Does Good Green Infrastructure Planning Policy Look Like?

On Thursday 7 November GCV Green Network published a Policy Assessment Tool Within Central Scotland UK for green infrastructure.
Wildlife Trust highlights the need for outdoor learning

On Outdoor Classroom Day the Wildlife Trust have highlighed the need for children to spend time learning outdoors.

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audits, strategy and quality

Open space standards and greenspace quality guide
climate change

Adapting greenspaces to meet climate change challenges
Community placemaking

Reports from placemaking projects
greenspace mapping

The State of Scotland's greenspace
growing spaces

Our Growing Community publications and Local Food Growing Strategy learning notes
outcome planning and evaluation
policy connections

Making the links between policy and greenspace
research and surveys

Reports from greenspace research and surveys
SROI

Social Return on Investement
Stalled Spaces

Delivering community and environmental benefits through temporary greenspace

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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?
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.
Greenspace map

The greenspace map developed with Ordnance Survey provides information about the location and type of all of Scotland's greenspaces.
Our story

Since 2002, greenspace scotland has provided a national lead on greenspace, working towards our goal that everyone living and working in urban Scotland has easy access to quality greenspace which meets local needs and improves their quality of life.
How we work

We provide a national lead for action on parks and greenspaces. Working in partnership we pioneer new approaches to managing and resourcing greenspace.
What is greenspace?

Greenspaces are the 'green lungs' of our towns and cities which contribute to improving people's physical and mental health by providing places for informal recreation and 'breathing spaces' to take time out from the stresses of modern life.
Statistics

Statistics about the size and importance of greenspace across Scotland.
ParkPower is Rethinking Parks project

Nesta have announced that ParkPower will be one of five UK Rethinking Parks Prototyping projects.
Ebulletin

Our free, monthly e-bulletin includes local, national and international greenspace-related news, as well as the latest information from greenspace scotland and our members.
Find and enjoy greenspace

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

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