Presentation to CPFA conference 2016
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Presentation to County Playing Fields Association Conference 2016 by Fields in Trust Chief Executive Helen Griffiths
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Presentation to CPFA conference 2016
- 8. Support
- 9. Beyond the Six Acre Standard Guidance for Outdoor Sport and Play
- 10. 361 events 70,000 participants 90% positive impact
- 11. Fields in Trust Awards 2015
- 12. Future focus Risk Register School Playing Fields
- 13. Engaging with CPFAs • Meetings with National Steering Committee • Benchmark reporting on sites protected • Quarterly reporting on activity and sites in pipeline
Editor's Notes
- Fields in Trust and the CPFAs have worked together for many, many years. This is a brief overview of Fields in Trust’s current work and structure.
- Currently our work is structured around 5 key areas: Protection Partnerships Participation Programmes Support Policy
- The lack of mandatory provision of green spaces makes the work that Fields in Trust does to safeguard their future as vital now as it was 90 years ago when we were founded. The positive contributions that green spaces make to the health and well being of communities are well documented and the continued cuts to local authority budgets threaten their long term future.
- Protecting individual spaces remains the absolute core of what we do. We now safeguard over 2,600 parks, playgrounds and playing fields totalling more than 30,000 acres of recreational land across the UK.
- We protect land using a model that ensures ownership and management stay in local hands. Entering into a deed of dedication with Fields in Trust ensures that the recreational future of the site is protected and that it cannot be used for other purposes without consent it is possible to protect any green space at any time through our general protection scheme
- We now have a team of 6 Development Managers who cover the whole of the UK and have a responsibility for delivering this work in their region.
- Continuing to find opportunities to protect green spaces can be a challenge which is why Partnership working is one of our primary focuses. Working with governing bodies or funding bodies to embed FIT protection into their grant giving programmes provides legacy of a permanent community resource that will outlive the value of the funding.
- Support Our relationship with protected spaces doesn’t end once the deed of dedication is signed. Development Managers have active relationships with sites in their areas and do as much as they can to provide advice and support.
- The Six Acre Standard has been our flagship publication since the 1930s and was reissued in November 2015 as Guidance for Outdoor Sport and Play to reflect changes to planning legislation. It aims to provide a framework for use by local practitioners to ensure a sufficiency of space is provided for sport play and physical for communities.
- We aim to use our Have a Field Day community participation programme to positively promote the value of our green spaces. Last year we had 361 events.
- The Annual Awards is our opportunity to recognise and reward people up and down the country who work to protect, improve and enjoy their green spaces.
- Future Focus Over the next year FIT will be expanding its work to include the protection of school playing fields and launching a new risk register to record threats to parks and playing fields across the UK.
- Engaging with CPFAs we have this year undertaken to develop a more structured relationship between CPFAs and Fields in Trust. our Development Managers have provided a benchmarking report to each PFA detailing all the sites we protect in their area. We hope that this reciprocal relationship will help to provide us with more local information which the CPFAs are best placed to provide