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Organising

Coordinating all volunteers centrally would help to ensure that all parks were properly looked after and that work was distributed across the city. However, local park community groups have better knowledge of their local parks and are passionate about their local environments. But not all parks are supported by community groups.

Should a Parks Charitable Trust coordinate volunteers across the city?

How would you improve this or do it differently?

Share your ideas and opinions to shape the future of our parks!

City Library Workshop

City Library Workshop
24/04/2017

"Develop ownership of parks throughout democratic means with officials or staff to oversee a mixture of volunteers and activists, with new structures for democratic management; we should be learning from the management of allotments." —Workshop Team Four

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Stephanie Mosley

Stephanie Mosley
21/04/2017

Has the council done any research regarding the numbers of volunteers/volunteer hours/coordinators/resources that would be needed to run each park sustainably over..oh...lets say the next 5 years? If you could present people with a plan for consultation it.would be useful. It

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Stephanie Mosley

Stephanie Mosley
21/04/2017

Centrally run/organised volunteers is a great thing for communities..however, eventually someone needs to be paid to be responsible for the parks.

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Mark Ryan

Mark Ryan
21/04/2017

Projects need central management leadership. The voluntary sector is sporadic. Lots of people want to volunteer in Jesmond Dene, not so much on the Iris Brick field. A centrally run coordinate can manage resource better than individual groups.

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Martin Laban

Martin Laban
20/04/2017

Stop posting bar graphs with hardly any data #NewcastleParks. When only 2 people have input into a question it's not appropriate to say 100% of people agree, or its a 50-50% split. It's just misleading.

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john blakemore

john blakemore
17/04/2017

Needs some Co ordination to aim to provide similar standards throughout

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Allan Rowell

Allan Rowell
08/04/2017

If there was some kind of online forum such as this one, it would be much easier to coordinate between the Trust and different groups.

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Twitter

Twitter
23/03/2017

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Twitter

Twitter
23/03/2017

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Twitter

Twitter
23/03/2017

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Dave Poste

Dave Poste
22/03/2017

I think that there has to be coordination but that the needs of individual parks and of local groups of volunteers should be taken into account. The volunteer effort should be tailored to meet local needs but there should still be an overall central coordination

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Tyne Riverside Country Park Workshop

Tyne Riverside Country Park Workshop
21/03/2017

"A flexible system - similar to the current one - would be needed. Finding a balance between offering volunteers local opportunities to develop ownership and opportunities to work across the city. However, an additional layer/level of management would be detrimental – adding costs. Grassroots and community ownership is important but it would need a lot of support." — Workshop Team

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Judy Olivier

Judy Olivier
15/03/2017

As long as you have a choice!

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Great North Museum Workshop

Great North Museum Workshop
01/12/2016

“Parks in the least affluent area would struggle to organise volunteering in their local parks” – Workshop Participant

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