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Birmingham Open Spaces Forum

Welcome to the BOSF website - the online meeting place for the volunteers who care for Birmingham's parks, playing fields, nature reserves, allotments and cemeteries - the green spaces that make Birmingham a better place to live.

Join BOSF for FREE. You can make contact with other groups and individuals interested in open spaces in Birmingham. You will be kept informed of events and activities that may be of interest to you. You will be able to tap into the network to get answers to problems that other groups have already solved.

Funding Information

The Department for Communities and Local Government has produced a booklet with lots of potential funding streams for community groups looking after open spaces. Click here to have a look. Don't forget there is a list of funders on our Useful Information page.

First Aid & Risk Assessments - FREE Training

With support from Be Birmingham and the Parks Service we are putting on 2 FREE training courses for BOSF members. On Tuesday 31st January - Basic First Aid and 7th February - An introduction to writing risk assessments at Kings Heath Park. There are only 12 places one each course and booking in advance is essential. Click here for a booking form.

Reclaim the Beds

Have you got empty flower beds in your park or open space? Just a few straggly roses left? Or maybe just a crop of weeds. Could you and your group do better?

BOSF and Birmingham City Council want to help you bring back colour and life to empty beds. We can provide the plants and the expertise. All you need to do is:

• get some friends and neighbours together to do the planting
• keep the weeds down
• and prune the plants once a year

Get in touch if you think the beds in your local park could do with a facelift - click here to send an email