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    Job Opportunity – Head of Engagement and Legacy Commonwealth Games

    This is a unique role which will give the individual the scope to shape and create a celebration of sport, business and community which will have a lasting and defining… Read More

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    DEFRA Consultations

    The Department of the Environment, Food & Rural Affairs is currently doing two consultations.The first is an important consultation asking how changes to the planning systems can better support improvements… Read More

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    Research Project from Sheffield University

    What do you want from public spaces? This is the question being asked by a new research project from Sheffield University, which seeks to find what you, as a user,… Read More

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    Year of Green Action 2019 (YoGA)

    YoGA is about connecting people all around the country with nature, and showing how we can all take positive action to improve our environment. It’s a year-long drive to help… Read More

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    UOB Conservation Volunteers begin work on “longest continuous orchard”

    Great work by the University of Birmingham Conservation Volunteers this weekend. They began planting what will eventually be the longest continuous orchard in the world on 25 miles of canal… Read More

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    RSPB Big Garden Birdwatch 2019

    The Big Garden Birdwatch is the world’s largest garden wildlife survey and the RSPB have got everything you need to know about joining in on 26th to 28th January. With over half a million… Read More

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    Plan a Picnic in your Park & Have a Field Day on Saturday 6th July

      This summer Fields in Trust want you to join them in championing our nation’s parks by planning a picnic at your local green space. On Have a Field Day, Saturday 6th July,… Read More

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    Sport England Announces Significant Investment in Parkrun

      Increasing female participation and encouraging more people from low socioeconomic communities to take part in free, weekly, social activity will be the focus of a new collaboration between Sport… Read More

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    Government Response to the “Save Our Parks” Petition

      On 29 November, the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government issued a response to the Mail on Sunday’s Save Our Parks petition after it received around 17,000 signatures…. Read More

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    Playing Fields Continue to be Protected

      New figures show that Sport England has protected or improved sports provision in 93% of planning applications affecting playing fields. Sport England is a statutory consultee for local councils… Read More

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