Empowerment – What we can achieve together
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The document discusses the benefits of friends groups for parks and how they can take on new activities. It then outlines how the Birmingham Open Spaces Forum (BOSF) supports various parks friends groups through newsletters, funding identification and distribution, mentoring, networking, and negotiating on their behalf. Some common issues the groups face that BOSF helps with include safeguarding parks, staffing, planning, starting new groups, and locating funding.
Empowerment – What we can achieve together
- 1. Friends...you can do so much with them
- 136. Having a go at something new
- 138. Photo Album by Emma
- 152. Sports & Games
- 166. Spray Art
- 183. Where does the Money Come from?
- 186. So Why BOSF?
- 187. How BOSF Doesn’t Work? Nah, I blame those It says here it’s all the Parks’ bloody friends Department’s fault groups
- 188. How BOSF Does Work? Funder Parks User Councillor Dept. Group Park Manager
- 189. What BOSF does? • Newsletters • Email updates &Website • Conferences – going to and holding • Identifying, promoting & distributing funding • Mentoring and signposting • Networking groups with similar experiences • Constitutions and Committee formats • Negotiates
- 190. Issues that Keep Coming Up • Safeguarding vulnerable spaces • Staffing • Planning Issues • Getting groups started • Finding money
- 191. Nice Pictures of Cotteridge Park