ECBI - Edinburgh Community Backgreens Initiative - Providing Greenspace for the Community

Full List of How To Guides

ECBA offer a series of Community Gardening courses through the year, see here for more information.  The class notes for the course are provided below, they provide a great resource of advice and methodology for establishing and managing community backgreen sites.

Community Gardening Approaches and Getting Folk Involved
    > Community Engagement: Advice on communicating your project
    > Template Community Backgreen Group Constitution
    > How to Set Up a Community Backgreen Group
    > Flowchart: Setting up a Communtiy Backgreen Group

Participatory Site Design and Preparing a Development Plan
    > Participatory Site Design Tool
    > Getting Permissions For Your Project
    > Template Site Development & Management Plan

Creating a Community Backgreen- Running Blitz Workshops and Courses
    > Planning a Backgreen Blitz
    > Health and Safety on Backgreen Blitzes
    > Tools and Equipment for Backgreen Blitzes
    > Blitz Passport: Template form for blitz attendees
    > Access: Advice on creating access points between backgreens
    > Trees: Advice on dealing with tree issues in community backgreens
   > Organising Grow Your Own Monthly Classes

Managing Your Community Backgreen Group
    > Fundraising: A list of funders and tips for making applications
    > Blank Income / Expenditure spreadsheet for submitting a financial projection to funders
    > Ideas for Community Activities

We also handed out a number of Seeds for Change's briefings on Minutes and Fundraising.  They have a whole range of resources for groups on running positive meetings.  See here on their website to download copies.