Sunday 19th May at the Birmingham Botanical Gardens

For our 2019 conference we hosted at the wonderful Botanical Gardens in Edgbaston. The conference which was well attended with over 50 delegates from our BOSF Member groups and our partners.

Councillor Sharon Thompson talking about the importance of community and open spaces in Birmingham.

It was a day packed with networking, information and great interactive workshops.

The Programme for the day was as follows:

10.00 Registration and Refreshments
10.30 Intro and Welcome by the Conference Chair
10.35 Councillor Sharon Thompson – Cabinet Member for Homes & Neighbourhoods
10.45 BOSF Update – Sarah Royal BOSF
11.00 ‘Just a minute’ speakers corner session – sixty second presentations of the different activities from groups
11.10 The Big Green Conversation – Greener Birmingham
12.10 ‘Just a minute’ speakers corner session – sixty second presentations of the different activities from BOSF Friends Groups
12.20 Networking Lunch
13.20 Activity Workshops:
– Green Woodworking – Lee Southall BCC Park Manager
– Pond Dipping – Lee Copplestone Waterside Care KBT
– How to Create a Map for your Park – Emma Woolf Cotteridge Park & Mat Barber BOSF
– Update Discussion on Parks – Joe Hayden & Sue Amey BCC Parks
– Solitary Bees & Wasps in Urban Environments – Aaron Bhambra RSPB
14.15 Activity Workshops change over:
(Workshop list as above)
15.00 Networking Tea

Green Woodworking workshop with Lee Southall

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The information from the “How to Create a Map for your Park” workshop has uploaded as a step by step tutorial on our website, follow this link: How to use google maps to create Online Map Layers for your park or open space

Lots of great ideas were generated by attendees during The Big Green Conservation workshop at our conference, leading up to the Big Green Summit that took place in November 2019.

It was a fantastic day, click this link to view the conference feedback from attendees.