skills development
Aim: To help build up the skills and capacity of parks groups volunteers to innovate and do their work, by delivering training in volunteer management, activities and event organisation, app and website development, and social media usage.
Digital Media and Promotion
Wildlife
Events and Promotion
Digital Media and Promotion
- Making a website to promote your park
- Making a podcast about your park
- Making a film to promote your park
- Making an app for use in your park
Wildlife
- Developing wildlife trails around your park – created by and for young people
Events and Promotion
- Health and Safety training for volunteers in parks
- How to recruit and work with volunteers more effectively
- Licensing training
- Making your parks event sustainable – planning, promotion and delivery
- How to use social media to promote your park, and the work of your group.
showcase projects
Aim: To demonstrate (or ‘Showcase’) a range of approaches which may be replicated in other areas of the city after the Green Capital year, and to share learning and good practice and develop a series of case-studies which can be used by other parks groups in the future.
- The ‘Pipeline Walk’: Celebrating the route of the first source of clean, fresh water being delivered to Redcliffe in the 12th century. The pipeline passes directly under Victoria Park, as well as a range of other community managed sites (including food growing locations) in South Bristol. UWE Creative Industries Teaching and Learning Fellow, and Digital Media Specialist, will work with VPAG and other community organisations in South Bristol to create a showcase app combining this walking route with stories of the people and histories of the area through film, photography and sound.
- Project Ardagh: How can UWE (Architecture and Planning, Environment and Technology, Sports Management and others) support community projects focussed on buildings in Bristol? This project aims at redesigning, and renovating or rebuilding the Ardagh sports facility site on Horfield Common into a multi-purpose community centre. It is hoped this project could also serve as a pilot for how community groups could reclaim disused or underused buildings for public purpose.
- Film: The role of parks and green spaces in the city. How do parks and green spaces contribute to the lives of Bristol’s residents? Told through the stories of parks groups volunteers, and users of parks and green spaces in South Bristol.
digital photographic archive
Aim: To create a new Digital Photographic Archive for the City celebrating parks and green spaces in Bristol’s European Green Capital Year 2015. Open to submission from residents across the city and selected by a group made up of (and representative of) a wide range of stakeholder groups with an interest in parks, photography and the city.
All Parks and Green Spaces in the city will be represented in this fantastic new collection.
The Digital Photographic Archive will be housed in UWE’s permanent collection from the end of 2015, and a series of submission competitions and exhibitions of the photos will occur throughout the year, including shows at UWE Bower Ashton's Gallery, and a touring exhibition at schools, libraries, and community venues.
For more information about how to submit photos, click HERE
All Parks and Green Spaces in the city will be represented in this fantastic new collection.
The Digital Photographic Archive will be housed in UWE’s permanent collection from the end of 2015, and a series of submission competitions and exhibitions of the photos will occur throughout the year, including shows at UWE Bower Ashton's Gallery, and a touring exhibition at schools, libraries, and community venues.
For more information about how to submit photos, click HERE
the app
Aim: To create an accessible digital platform to present Bristol's parks and green spaces coherently and to connect information about facilities, walking routes and trails, travel information, parks groups activities and events, and local stories and histories, to both promote Bristol's parks and green spaces to visitors and serve as a valuable resource for residents.
For more information about the App, click HERE
For more information about the App, click HERE
student outreach projects
Aim: To add to the capacity of Bristol's volunteer parks groups and to create meaningful live projects for students related to parks and green space, where they are able to apply their academic learning outside the classroom.
For a list of current student volunteering opportunities, click HERE
For a list of current student volunteering opportunities, click HERE