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The friends of St Anns Well gardens is a registered charity that aim to promote the preservation, restoration, and improvement of St Anns Well Gardens in order to educate an benefit the public. In terms of what this charity aim to do, they have working groups, which are grouped that can get involved in the life of the gardens. Entertainment groups, which helpless 'Spring festival' and 'Welloween' and is developing ideas for more events that is applicable for everyone. They also offer wildlife groups which join up with other volunteering groups to attract even more wildlife into the environment. The friends of St Anns Well gardens also have a fundraising group that raises money to run future events and fund some amenities. They also focus on strategic development and maintenance and improvement. This entails liaising with the council over improvements that should be made in the park.
Citizenship- This is an example of citizenship for the environment because it has group based projects. These group projects all help move towards a sustainable environment such as having projects that aid the wildlife in that park. It also helps towards a sustainable future for the park such as developing and improving the park for future generations. Along with that it is citizenship because it involves other volunteering projects in that area. It is also citizenship because the fundraising events involve the whole community and surrounding areas, meaning that people can engage in what they acitively do and learn more about how they can improve their sustainability and be better citizens for the environment.
LINK- http://www.stannswellgardens.co.uk