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Welcome to the Future Parks Accelerator’s online conference - Naturally Thriving: Rethinking Urban Green Space!

In October 2022, we welcomed 1400 delegates to three days of inspiring, informative and useful live sessions for our conference on the future of urban green space.

Through this conference programme, we’ve embedded recordings of all of the sessions which took place. You can click on the title of any session to find out more and read about our speakers.

As well as the recorded sessions below, there’s lots of other online content you can explore. At the conference we launched our resource hub. This is a great place to start if you’re looking at how to start putting parks and green spaces at the heart of plans for your town or city - with practical guidance and learnings from Future Parks Accelerator places. Find the resource hub here: https://www.futureparks.org.uk/resource-hub

Throughout the conference we invited attendees to contribute to our Miro board - this is now archived, you can explore the board and see contributions if you click here.

We also curated a series of fascinating pre-recorded sessions on environmental justice, nature networks, and income generation which you can listen to at your leisure. You can also hear from the brilliant journalist and author, Anita Sethi, as she takes a walk around her home in Manchester.  Click here to skip to these sessions.

Monday, 17 October


Morning Theme: Inspiring Change - Art of the Possible

🌳  Morning Host: Hilary McGrady, Director General, National Trust

Join your host for the morning Hilary McGrady, Director General of the National Trust as she welcomes you to the morning session, introduces the theme - Inspiring Change - Art of the Possible and introduces our speakers for the morning.

**09:45-10:10 - Opening Remarks**: Leading for Change


Join Simon Thurley, Chair of the National Lottery Heritage Fund and Maria Adebowale-Schwarte, NLHF Trustee and CEO of Foundation for Future London to hear about the work of FPA and what to expect over the coming days.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPoVKOE6L_I


10:15-11:15 - Visionary Leadership: City Regional Mayors Leading for Change