Michael Rowland Parks Development Manager, Bournemouth BC Trustee, Bournemouth Parks Foundation
The Bournemouth Parks Foundation Charitable Objectives • To provide and enhance parks, gardens, landscaped areas, woodland, open spaces, playing fields, playgrounds, nature reserves and recreational amenity spaces for the benefit of everyone in Bournemouth • To advance public education in relevant topics such as horticulture, arboriculture, ecology, geology, archaeology, heritage and local history • To provide recreation and leisure facilities in the interests of social welfare and to improve the conditions of life for people in the local area. It’s not about running parks or paying for maintenance
The Bournemouth Parks Foundation HLF & Nesta Targets In Brief • Set up an independent charity to fundraise for parks in Bournemouth • Test digital giving within parks and through the web & compare with traditional methods • Set up and test legacy giving for public parks • Recruit volunteers
Setting up • Grant awarded July 2014 • Set up limited company Oct 2014 • Recruit potential trustees Jul 14 - • Charity Commission Application • Appoint a Project Manager Dec 2014 • Charity established Jan 2015 • Bank account opened April 2015 • Testing Summer 2015 -
The Bournemouth Parks Foundation Testing digital giving for public parks
Love our parks and green spaces ? Help protect them for future generations... PLEASE DONATE* TXT / SMS BPF005 to 70970 BPF005 to give £5 * Bournemouth Parks Foundation needs to raise funding for this and other charitable causes. Your donation will be processed and administered by the National Funding Scheme, operating as DONATE, a charity registered in England and Wales (1149800) and in Scotland (SC045106). In addition to any text donation, you will incur your standard network message charge, (based on your service provider rates). For Terms & Conditions, see www.easydonate.org.
www.bournemouthparksfoundation.org.uk info@bournemouthparksfoundation.org.uk
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