Protecting and Enhancing community green space. The Friends began in 1989 as a community group to protect the park from a specific threat – the proposal to lay a hard surface over the southernmost area and “condense” the playground. A well-organised campaign prevented it from happening and the area is now the extremely popular children’s playground.

From that enthusiastic launch, the Friends has grown into a local institution, focused on enhancing the park. They work with the Council to keep the park up to scratch, improve the park through their planting programme, put on community events and support neighborhood organisations and community groups that wish to use the park.

There is a committee of volunteers and everyone who has good ideas and wants to help is welcome to get involved.

Environmental citizenship: Friends of Blakers Park is related to environmental citizenship as it helps to promote the well being of the park. By utilizing volunteers it has been successful stopped a programme to condense the park and prevent the laying of a hard surface in the southernmost area of the park.

Contact details: email: friends@blakerspark.org.uk OR friendsofblakerspark@gmail.com.