Naturally Birmingham is forum for the work delivering Birmingham City Council’s City of Nature Plan

It keeps people’s views and values at it’s heart while helping to develop new approaches to the provision, maintenance and use of the city’s green spaces.

The Naturally Birmingham Project was the first phase of the Future Parks Accelerator Project in Birmingham, funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund and supported by the National Trust.

Although that first phase completed at the end of June 2022 a follow on project called the Urban Nature Development (UND) Project has now started and so the Naturally Birmingham forum can continue with a specific aim of sharing information that can help bring nature to everyone’s doorstep. The UND project will run until September 2024.

Birmingham City Councils UND project is delivering 4 creative, ambitious, and inclusively designed projects that not only helps to deliver the city of Nature Plan in Birmingham but will also help others to understand the key issues, challenges, and opportunities when it comes to ‘levelling up’ access to green space and nature and deliver nature-based solutions to climate change in urban areas. The funding was designed to support the development phase of work and catalyse future delivery and investment from a range of sources.

Produce a high level biophilic green infrastructure (GI) masterplan with a pipeline of projects for the East Birmingham Inclusive Growth Corridor to.

Create a Birmingham City Council Schedule of Sites that could successfully benefit from future Biodiversity Net Gain credits and embedded maintenance payments by: identification of BCC owned sites against the 25-year nature recovery vision map developed through FPA, assessing the habitat across all existing city owned green space.

Establish mechanisms for Birmingham residents to become involved with green spaces and nature on their doorstep.

Create a new way of working (Future Operating Model) between the Council (internal to BCC) and the people of Birmingham (External to BCC) to deliver Green Infrastructure and Nature Recovery as part of the City of Nature Plan developed through FPA.

To find out more about the original Future Park Accelerator programme please visit this website: https://www.futureparks.org.uk/