Our parks and open spaces are more important now than ever, and we want to know why you love your local park. Have you been using your park as part of your daily exercise? Have you discovered a new local green space that you didn’t know existed? Are you in touch with nature and wildlife[…]
Nesta are supporting two parks foundations to test contactless donations in public parks. Read their blog post below on how the project is developing… The Royal Mint did not produce any 1p or 2p coins last year, for the first time in decades. By 2030, it is predicted that only one transaction in ten will[…]
What’s the idea? We’re developing contactless donation solutions that can be used in an external environment, without a mains power supply and able to withstand extreme weather conditions. Contactless donations are increasingly used in indoor locations such as museums, or outdoors using re-chargeable handheld units. However, we want to develop a robust solution using solar[…]
Have you been one of the lucky ones watching our wildlife camera’s this spring? We’ve been fortunate to capture our Heron’s, who are twenty metres aloft the highest of Scots Pines, laying eggs, hatching, feeding and fledging of the young. The heron chick is now six weeks old and it won’t be long now until[…]
Celebrate International Dawn Chorus Day with Parks in Mind on Sunday 3 May from 6:00 – 7:00am. Join top ornithologist Stuart Clarke live online on a virtual bird song walk through a Boscombe woodland. We’ll listen out for the dawn chorus from song thrush, blackbirds and robins to see what we can hear on the[…]
We’re continuing to monitor the daily guidance from the government in light of the Coronavirus outbreak, we are responding to this accordingly and doing what we can to prepare for any impact. At the present we have paused our physical Parks in Mind programme, but are running virtual sessions instead via our Facebook group We[…]