Can self-funding strategies deliver a secure future for parks?

摘要

Parks services are turning to increasingly radical measures to cope with rapidly diminishing budgets. Newcastle City Council has warned it will run out of money for discretionary services completely by 2020 and is investigating moving maintenance andmanagement of 33 of the city's parks and allotments, more than 400ha of land, into a charitable trust. The Heritage Lottery Fund has awarded the council E237,500 to help develop the model.