Green space managers

Park managers, park rangers, arboriculturalists, horticulturalists, green keepers, landscape contractors and managers plan and maintain our urban parks and green spaces.

We provide advice through our enabling service, publications and toolkits to support high quality green spaces and make the case for continued investment in our parks.

Latest additions

The Grey to Green campaign

CABE's campaign to shift funding from grey to green infrastructure calls for a landscape architect in every local authority.

How we help green space managers

Guide to green space apprenticeships

A good practice guide to help local authorities and others to plan and manage successful horticulture apprenticeship programmes.

Parks and green spaces

A summary of what we are doing to promote well-designed parks and squares as a crucial part of our towns and cities.

Open space strategies

Practical guidance to local authorities and their stakeholders on how to prepare, deliver, monitor and review an open space strategy.

Making the invisible visible: the real value of park assets

Discover new methods for putting a financial value on parks, which could help generate better future investment.

Green space skills

Find out what we are planning to do about the skills shortage of skills in the green space sector.

Green infrastructure on Sustainable Cities

Find out more about how the network of green (and blue) elements can help towns and cities tackle climate change.

Community engagement toolkit

Start using Spaceshaper, a free and practical community engagement toolkit, to help measure the quality of your public spaces.

Adapting public space to climate change

Learn from our research and guidance on reducing the effects of climate change using green infrastructure.

Improve the performance of your parks

Use our free toolkit to help assess your green space service against a model of best practice and plan improvements.

Paying for parks

Help combat the funding crisis in parks by learning about eight key funding models in the UK and abroad.

CABE Space leaders programme

Attend our intensive three-day learning and development programme for green space managers.

Why it pays to ask folk what they want

Ipsos Mori’s Ben Page explains why it’s so important to consult people about design.

Useful links for green space managers

GreenSpace

Charity dedicated to improving parks and green spaces.

Play England

Promotes free, inclusive local play and provides guidance.

Natural England

Advice for local authorities to enhance the natural environment.

GROW

Advice on careers in all areas of horticulture.

Green Flag Award

National standard for parks and green spaces.

Ifpra - International Federation of Park and Recreation Administration

An international organisation representing parks, recreation, amenity, cultural, leisure and related services.