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Committee & Members

MEMBERS

Chair: Fay Easton

Vice Chair: Jamie Blackwell

Treasurer: Colin Harper

Secretary: Lin Carding

Meetings Secretary: Tony Smith

Support: Pippa Gimbert
Volunteer Member: Celia Macintyre

 

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GCG Constitution 2023

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Greenfields Community Group

Greenfields Community Group is an ‘Unincorporated Association’.
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The Group was established in 2017 and the current Chair and Committee have been in-post since 2023.


This community group is run entirely by volunteers, to improve our local neighbourhood and  undertake campaigns to benefit local people 


GCG has always been simply a group of people wishing to get together to organise the protection and development of our local park.


We don’t employ staff or lease premises and none of the volunteers are paid.
We are an unincorporated association and we carry out activities to improve & develop our local park, working to a constitution (copy above) which sets out the rules by which we operate.
The volunteer committee are determined to support and develop the original purpose for Greenfields Park when it was left in trust for the 'health and recreation' of the local community.
This purpose is still as relevant today as when the benefactor bequeathed the land to the community.


In the early years of the last century, parks provided urban areas with green refuge and places for health and recreation.

In today's busy world the science tells us that the mental and physical health benefits of these increasingly precious green spaces are as important as they were a hundred years ago. 


We have ambitions to create learning opportunities about growing food and the health values of good nutrition and  the impact of works to protect wildlife, the environment and the bio diverse habitats in the park. 

We have ambitions for community food growing based on this parkland's role in WW2 to 'feed the nation'.  We will also aim to use native plants and trees, sustainable and/or recycled materials and buy from local sources.


The Greenfields Community Group will:

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  • Adhere to the original purposes set out for the park by the  benefactor of the land

  • Bring local people together to benefit from the health asset of this neighbourhood park and help safeguard the park for future generations

  • Represent Greenfields Community to local councils and other Park Associations

  • Maintain regular contact with Shrewsbury Town Council (owners of the land) building a local vision for integrating the newly restored land into the community and enhancing the existing parkland

  • Fundraise for general improvements and enhancements

  • Manage communications, update the website and the Park Noticeboard to keep people well-informed

  • Communicate with stakeholders to promote the community vision for the parkland

  • Join county and national associations to support and engage with other community park groups

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