Vision

A network of easily accessible, safe, attractive and welcoming parks, gardens and green spaces which meet the needs of everyone and which contribute to the economic, social and environmental well-being of people and places, now and for future generations.



Aim

To be the UK’s leading advocate for the economic, social and environmental benefits of better planned, designed and managed parks, gardens and green spaces and for their positive contribution to our economic, physical and spiritual health, to social cohesion and to biodiversity.



Objectives

To promote the concept of a single parks or greenspace system, whose quality and diversity sustain the cultural, heritage, landscape and ecological needs, purposes and values of the communities that use them.



To provide a network for the exchange of expertise, experience and information about the sustainable planning, design, management and improvement of parks, gardens and green spaces.



To promote, attract, secure and disburse funding for projects which contribute to the sustainable planning, design, management and improvement of parks, gardens and green spaces.



To promote the sustainable planning, design, management and improvement of parks, gardens and green spaces through responses to consultations and by representation of the aims of GreenSpace at national, regional and local levels.



To promote the implementation of strategies, policies and actions at national, regional and local level needed to secure and sustain the full range of benefits that parks, gardens and green spaces offer to people and places.



To promote the greater education and involvement of local communities in the sustainable planning, design, management and improvement of parks, gardens and green spaces.



To identify and promote professional best practice through meetings, conferences, research, exhibitions, publications, films, training courses and networks.



To provide a channel of communication and education to relevant organisations on issues affecting the sustainable planning, design,management and improvement of parks, gardens and

green spaces.