Edinburgh's Thriving Green Spaces project announced as one of eight Future Parks pioneers to find sustainable ways to manage and fund parks and greenspaces Read more
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SEPA and Creative Carbon Scotland worked with a local primary school and a musician in Aberdeen on a creative, new approach to communicate about flooding and flood risk management. Read more
The Heritage Horizon Awards will invest £100million over the next three years in ambitious, innovative and transformational projects that will revolutionise UK heritage. Read more
Amendment to require Planning Authorities to prepare Open Space Strategies has been retained in Scottish Government’s Stage 3 amendments to the Planning Bill. Read more
International Conference held by WHO European Healthy Cities Network in collaboration with NHS Scotland to reflect the Place Standard Tool and discuss further improvements to tackle health inequalities. Read more
Belfast City Council is trialling five innovative pilot projects in their parks and open spaces to examine how data and and innovative technologies can help manage the sites. Read more
A wealth of information about walking in Scotland is now available on a single website. Read more
The Zetland Park Inclusive Play project is looking to make a difference to this Grangemouth park. Read more
2019 SURF Awards for Best Practice in Community Regeneration, which is delivered in partnership with the Scottish Government, are now open for applications. Read more
The new fund aims to support up to 3,000 children over a five-year period to access outdoor play and learning, concentrating on disadvantaged areas with limited or no outdoor nursery provision. Read more
Delivered by Forth Rivers Trust the project has seen multiple benefits for landowners, river wildlife and local communities Read more
The ParkPower team have just launched an online resource listing worldwide reference sites that provide energy related activities in parks and greenspaces. Read more
The June ebulletin is out! Catch up with greenspace news, events and research from Scotland and further afield. Read more
In Keith, Bags of Help contributed £1,000 to REAP (Rural Environmental Action Project) to help residents living around Den Crescent make their communal areas nicer to look at, to sit in and to walk in and to renew the benches and artwork. Read more
Glasgow Food Policy Partnership organised the Glasgow Food Summit, that took place on the 29 May in Glasgow City Chambers. Read more
From 31 May to 2 June Gardening Scotland took place at the Royal Highland Centre, Edinburgh. Gardening Scotland is the national gardening and outdoor living exhibition which along with various gardening stands hosts the Garden for Life Read more
Registers of Scotland and Ordnance Survey to establish a Geovation Hub in Edinburgh to accelerate Scottish property and geospatial start-ups. Read more
Bags of Help contributed £2,000 to help volunteers restore Castle Hill, in Cullen to its former glory, so that local people and visitors to the area can enjoy the historic site and the spectacular panoramic view of Cullen Bay. Read more
Locavore plan to transform a closed-down plant nursery into a productive organic food growing project in the southside of Glasgow. Read more
This week the GCV Green Network partnership launched their Green Network Blueprint for the Glasgow City region. Read more
Our June project of the month Hermitage Park Pavilion is the first public building in Scotland to meet the internationally recognised Passivhaus standard for building design. Read more
Falkirk has been shortlisted in "Britain's Best Walking Neighbourhood Award, 2019" from 80 nominations. The next 6 weeks a public vote will decide who wins! Read more
This weekend sees MyParkScotland celebrate it's 4th birthday with some short case studio videos about how groups have used the site. Read more
Fields in Trust have developed the Green Space Index which uses Ordnance Survey data to analyse park and greenspace provision across Great Britain. Read more