Sydney Gardens, Bath PP-16-00071 SD 2.1 Activity Plan 2018

SD 2.1 Activity Plan

Sydney Gardens, Bath a 21st Century Pleasure Garden

Parks for People HLF Application

Activity Plan

August 2018

Susan Palmer, Community Ranger 1 Sydney Gardens, Bath PP-16-00071 SD 2.1 Activity Plan 2018

Contents

Appendices: ...... 4 1. Why a Parks for People Project in Sydney Gardens now? ...... 5 2. Introduction ...... 6 2.1 Project vision: A 21st Century Pleasure Garden ...... 6 2.2 The Heritage of Sydney Gardens ...... 7 2.2.1 Entertainments and Cosmoramas, Fireworks and Balloon Rides ...... 7 2.2.2 Jane Austen ...... 8 2.2.3 Illuminations ...... 8 2.2.4 Romans and Horses ...... 9 2.2.5 The Kennet & Avon Canal ...... 9 2.2.6 The Great Western Railway ...... 9 2.2.7 Before The Georgians ...... 9 2.2.8 From Private to Public ...... 10 2.2.9 Recent history ...... 10 2.3 Sydney Gardens today ...... 11 2.4 Bath's Historic Parks and Gardens...... 12 2.5 The Holburne Museum and Sydney Gardens ...... 12 2.6 Bath - a World Heritage Site ...... 13 2.7 The need for funding ...... 13 3. Where are we now? - context and process ...... 14 3.1 Recent context leading to the Parks for People Project application ...... 14 3.2 Recent proposals for restoration ...... 15 3.3 Sydney Gardens Round 1 HLF Parks for People bid ...... 15 3.4 Bath and NE Somerset Council Strategic Policy Context ...... 16 3.5 Policy Context for the restoration of Sydney Gardens ...... 18 3.6 B&NES Parks Service - Structure and Staffing ...... 19 3.6.1 Sydney Gardens Project Team ...... 20 3.7 B&NES Parks Foundation - a new award from NESTA's Re-thinking Parks ...... 20 3.8 Key Stakeholder Groups engaged in strategic management...... 21 3.9 How is Sydney Gardens currently interpreted? ...... 22 3.10 What we know about our audience ...... 22 3.10.1 Our local audience: demographic context ...... 22 3.10.2 Our wider audience: visitors and tourists ...... 23 3.10.3 The national context of engagement with green space ...... 24 3.10.4 The use of green space by Bath residents ...... 24 3.10.5 Park user numbers, profile and visitor observation survey data ...... 25 3.10.6 Summary of evidence, including non users ...... 26 3.11 What we know about previous levels of engagement and activity ...... 27 3.11.1 Volunteering in the park ...... 28 3.11.2 Skills and Training in the Park ...... 28 4.0 Sydney Gardens Development Phase focus and work 2017 - 2018...... 30 4.1 Summary of our Activity Plan development during the Development Phase ...... 31 4.2 Our Development Phase Public Engagement in Numbers: ...... 33 4.3 Changes from the Round 1 submission ...... 34 4.4 Working with partners ...... 34

Susan Palmer, Community Ranger 2 Sydney Gardens, Bath PP-16-00071 SD 2.1 Activity Plan 2018

4.4.1 Working with the Friends of Sydney Gardens ...... 35 4.4.2 Working with The Holburne Museum ...... 36 4.4.3 Other strategic partnerships and working relationships developed ...... 37 4.5 Public Engagement ...... 39 4.5.1 Public Consultations about Design Plan and Activity Plan...... 40 4.5.2 How we communicated ...... 41 4.5.3 How we grew and broadened participation: Postcode Data Map ...... 42 4.6 Activities trialled in the Development Phase ...... 44 4.7 Evidence and outcomes from trialled activities ...... 49 4.8 Commissioned research and outreach in relation to priority audiences ...... 51 4.8.1 Report: Barriers to participation for children and families SD 2.12 ...... 51 4.8.2 Report: Barriers to participation for older people SD 2.13 ...... 52 4.8.3 Report: Education & Learning Resourcing SD 2.11 ...... 52 4.8.4 Report: Illuminations Launch Event in Sydney Gardens SD 2.14 ...... 54 4.9 Audiences - identified audiences and target / priority audiences ...... 54 4.9.1 Local children and their families: ...... 54 4.9.2 Teenagers and young adults ...... 55 4.9.3 Over 65s ...... 55 4.9.4 Vulnerable people (Homeless, Victims of abuse) ...... 56 4.9.5 People in poor health (physical and mental health) ...... 57 4.9.6 Day visitors and tourists...... 58 4.9.7 Learners ...... 58 4.9.8 Through routers ...... 59 4.10 Accessibility and Inclusivity ...... 59 4.10.1 Making Sydney Gardens the first Dementia Friendly Park in Bath ...... 60 4.11 Volunteering ...... 60 4.12 Training ...... 62 4.13 How we created our Activity Plan ...... 63 4.14 How we created our Interpretation Plan ...... 63 5. Our Project ...... 66 5.1 Project Aim and Vision: ...... 66 5.1.1 Seven key project drivers ...... 66 5.2 Design guides and principles for participation ...... 67 5.2.1 Five design ground rules ...... 67 5.2.2 Design principles and approach ...... 67 5.3 Three Activity Themes ...... 68 5.4 Activity Plan Principles ...... 69 5.5 Summary of Action Plan for Delivery ...... 69 5.6 Audiences ...... 71 5.7 Priority / target audiences ...... 72 5.7.1 Dementia ...... 72 5.7.2 Julian House DVA Services (victims of abuse)...... 73 5.7.3 Pathways to Wellbeing 2 - The Holburne Museum ...... 73 5.8 A Changing Places Toilet in Sydney Gardens ...... 74 5.9 Volunteering Opportunities ...... 74 5.10 Training Opportunities ...... 75 5.11 Visionary Ideas ...... 76 5.12 The Bothy - 'a model of exchange' ...... 76 5.13 How we will deliver our Activity Plan ...... 78 5.13.1 Key Partners...... 79 5.14 Costs ...... 79

Susan Palmer, Community Ranger 3 Sydney Gardens, Bath PP-16-00071 SD 2.1 Activity Plan 2018

5.15 HLF outcomes, measuring success & evaluation ...... 80 5.16 Longer-term benefits ...... 81 5.17 SD 2.2 Activity Plan Supporting Database - Excel spreadsheet ...... 82 6.0 ...... 84 Our Action Plan ...... 84 HLF Outcome Checklist Table ...... 84 A timetable of activities ...... 84

Appendices:

SD2 .2 Activity Plan Supporting Database (Excel doc) SD2 .3 Activities undertaken in Development Phase SD2 .4 Photo Record of Activities in Development Phase SD2 .5 Public Engagement Report SD2 .6 Disability and Access Report SD2 .7 Communications Report SD2 .8 Evidence from Public Consultations for Activity Plan SD2 .9 Audience and Visitor Survey Data (Round 1) SD2 .10 Bothy Brief SD2 .11 Report: Learning and Education Resourcing SD2 .12 Report: Barriers to participation for children and families SD2 .13 Report: Barriers to participation for older people SD2 .14 Report: Illuminations Launch Event SD2 .15 Record of Meetings with partners + organisations in Development Phase SD2 .16 FoSG Likes and Dislikes Letter SD2 .17 Communications Strategy SD2 .18 Volunteering Policy (Draft) SD2 .19 ‘Visionary Ideas’ from the Development Phase SD2. .20 Example of Commissioning Brief – BAPP Consultation 2018

Susan Palmer, Community Ranger 4 Sydney Gardens, Bath PP-16-00071 SD 2.1 Activity Plan 2018

1. Why a Parks for People Project in Sydney Gardens now?

Our research and work over the Development Phase has confirmed a strong support base and enthusiasm from residents, communities of interest, heritage organisations and voluntary groups as well as our key partners, The Friends of Sydney Gardens and The Holburne Museum.

Our project will restore and rejuvenate Sydney Gardens, drawing on the 220 year history which began with a Georgian Pleasure Garden and travels forward to a 21st Century Pleasure Gardens.

We will bring unused areas of the park back into public use, renovate and repair disused buildings, restore Listed buildings, enhance and increase biodiversity, and lift up the quality of the park to meet the needs of a contemporary audiences with new play areas, interpretation inviting curiosity and learning, a space of social cohesion and one that reflects a strong community spirit, where heritage is made visible, and the community galvanized to continue to support this vital green space in the city of Bath.

This Activity Plan, accompanied by a carefully crafted Action Plan with activities, events, training and volunteering opportunities in Sydney Gardens that has been planned in response to activities and events trialled during the Development Phase, and through conversation with our key partners. Our Activity Plan is inventive, entertaining and inviting, and networks the built and natural restoration of the park with participatory activities. We will interpret Sydney Gardens’ fascinating social and cultural history, and increase and diversify participation through improving infrastructure creating an accessible park, amplifying our audiences and engaging our identified and priority audiences. Our project will enables the park to be perceived and used in new ways and reach new audiences, and will attract regional and national interest – a project that will meet and hopefully exceed our targets and objectives for participation, training and volunteering, and our identified HLF outcomes.

The Sydney Gardens project has been in development for the past 25 years, with a particular focus on raising funds over the past decade. The past 5 years has seen dedicated work to restore this heritage park, and sustained support from the community. This is an important opportunity arriving at a time when local authorities do not have the funding to undertake such a comprehensive restoration project, and to run an accompanying activity programme that brings high quality participatory events into the park.

Our Activity Plan will deliver 29 public events across scale, over 200 learning, educational heritage workshops, 6o talks and tours. 114+ play and sports sessions, and create 11 new maps trails and learning resources. It will become the first Dementia Friendly Park in Bath, host the first Changing Places Toilet in a park in the region, innovate a ‘model of exchange’ building a legacy of participation and open in 2021 with an Illumination.

Susan Palmer, Community Ranger 5 Sydney Gardens, Bath PP-16-00071 SD 2.1 Activity Plan 2018

2. Introduction

2.1 Project vision: A 21st Century Pleasure Garden

Sydney Gardens is one of the best surviving examples of an 18th Century Pleasure Garden in the UK. But over time, the Gardens have suffered from declining infrastructure and underinvestment. Grade II Listed buildings are on the 'at risk' register, important heritage features are in need of renovation and disused buildings waiting to be put to good community use.

After 25 years of gathering momentum to restore Sydney Gardens, with a particular focus over the last decade to gain funding, a Parks for People HLF grant at this point in time would secure a strong and dynamic future for this unique public park.

Our project will create a pleasure garden for the 21st Century, a remarkable meeting point of history and story, architecture and design, social and civic park life, routes and journeys.

Sydney Gardens, restored and developed, will draw new audiences from the immediate neighbourhood and welcome visitors from around the world to an important revitalised part of the geography and heritage that forms part of Bath's world heritage status.

Sydney Gardens will retain its tranquil central lawns, popular routes and charming atmosphere, while being surrounded by new areas for play, heritage exploration, learning, connection and social meeting.

Drawing its inspiration from its early origins as an 18th Century landscape designed as a venue for events and activities, public socialising and immersion in nature, our project adds to these layers with a contemporary and forward thinking vision:

'Revitalise Sydney Gardens as a beautiful Pleasure Garden with peaceful and tranquil spaces, that achieves a renaissance as a unique, fun and restorative environment, for all ages; - its remarkable built and natural heritage, people and events, told and experienced in witty and eclectic ways.'

Through a programme of carefully researched and crafted activities, events and training, Lottery Funding will be used to host entertainments for all ages, invite curiosity and exploration, and create a site of learning and skill development. Importantly, it will provide a meeting and engagement space for those more vulnerable people in our communities.

The project will not only restore a public green space of national significance but animate it in a truly innovative manner, using its built and natural heritage to tell an intriguing story that has brought people and nature together for over 220 years.

Susan Palmer, Community Ranger 6 Sydney Gardens, Bath PP-16-00071 SD 2.1 Activity Plan 2018

2.2 The Heritage of Sydney Gardens

Sydney Gardens, laid out between 1792 and 1794 and opened as Sydney Gardens Vauxhall in 1795, is the only example in Britain of an 18th Century urban pleasure garden whose basic form and layout survives intact. It is traversed by two masterpieces of late-eighteenth and mid- nineteenth-century engineering: John Rennie’s Kennet and Avon Canal and Isambard Kingdom Brunel’s Great Western Railway.

The urban pleasure garden was an invention of Georgian Britain. Its heyday followed Jonathan Tyers’ acquisition of the lease of Vauxhall Gardens in London in 1728 and the subsequent opening of Ranelagh at Chelsea, with its famous domed wooden Rotunda 150’ in diameter. By the end of the 18th Century there was a pleasure garden in every major city in Britain and this English invention was imitated in Europe: there were ‘Vauxhalls’ in Vienna and Paris.

In no city, however, did pleasure gardens play such an important role as in Bath, with examples including Parade Gardens, Spring Gardens and Grosvenor Gardens, all of which closed as a consequence of the success of Sydney Gardens.

Sydney Gardens were the most ambitious pleasure gardens to be created in Bath and were the most popular, designed to accommodate crowds of up to 4,000 people on gala evenings.

Initially designed by Thomas Baldwin, who was replaced after bankruptcy by Charles Harcourt Masters, Sydney Gardens were the centrepiece of “Bath New Town”. The perimeter wall began construction in 1792 and the first tree was planted in 1793. They opened to the public in May 1795.

The Gardens were designed as a hexagon entered by visitors on foot at the Sydney Hotel, now the Holburne Museum. Admission charges were payable beginning with a basic 6d per person but added to if visitors wished to have tea, use the bowling green or read the London newspapers.

The perimeter of Sydney Gardens was a low stone wall, which still stands in parts, and within which was ‘The Ride’, fifteen metres in width, with a surface of small stones: ‘A healthy and fashionable airing for gentlemen and ladies on horseback’. The inner boundary of The Ride was a low mound, carrying shrub trees and screens. The trace of The Ride remains in the layout of the contemporary park.

The axis of Sydney Gardens was a central avenue which continued the line of Great Pulteney Street. The walk rose and terminated in an open loggia (truncated and restored in 1938, listed Grade II) which enjoyed panoramic views across Bath.

2.2.1 Entertainments and Cosmoramas, Fireworks and Balloon Rides

The area between the central axis and the hexagon was divided into a series of garden compartments, each centred on a garden feature, such as The Labyrinth or The Swings, or structures including a ‘Sham’ Castle and Hermits Cottage.

Susan Palmer, Community Ranger 7 Sydney Gardens, Bath PP-16-00071 SD 2.1 Activity Plan 2018

The Cosmorama was a popular entertainment of the Georgian period, allowing the viewer to look through a series of lenses and mirrors to an artfully lit image of a faraway place or event. The eruption of Mt.Vesuvius, ‘Scenes in India’ or the 'Starry Firmament' would be rendered in 3D for the delight of patrons, allowing them a view into another world. There was a Cosmorama placed in Sydney Gardens near the Holburne Museum, as far as we know. Other entertainments were an aviary with exotic birds, an 'Echo' and a theatre.

None of these attractions or features survives, although recent historical research indicates that the Grotto in the grounds of the neighbouring Bath Spa Hotel, may well have originally been from the Sydney Gardens Labyrinth.

The public activities of Sydney Gardens were concentrated upon the area at the rear of the hotel which is occupied by the Holburne’s garden today. Known as ‘The Promenade’, it was designed for crowds of 3,000 – 4,000 people, the number who would gather at each of four annual galas which included fireworks, music and performances. Visitors circulated in an area of trees, lawns and shrubbery defined by the two curving rows of supper-boxes, the hotel and the orchestra.

Activities and entertainments were an all-day affair, from Public Breakfasts, bowls, and enjoying The Ride on horseback, to concerts and grand illuminations ‘with 10,000 variegated lamps’ at night. Spectacular one off events were also held including an early hot air balloon flight in 1802.

2.2.2 Jane Austen

From 1801 Jane Austen and her family lived at No.4 Sydney Place; one of the reasons for their choice of house being its proximity to the Gardens. In 1800 she wrote to her sister Cassandra about the family’s house-hunting: “I join with you in wishing for the environs of Laura Place, but do not venture to expect it……It would be very pleasant to be near Sydney Gardens! - we might go to the Labyrinth every day”.

Sydney Gardens was a meeting place; socialising, circulating, being entertained and learning were all key elements of the Pleasure Gardens. Georgian Bath was a lively place, full of social and political changes. What conversations and exchanges happened in the Pleasure Gardens? The social, pleasurable entertainments and the lived social history of the Gardens are an influential and potent source for our contemporary activities and events 200 years later.

2.2.3 Illuminations

We will illuminate the park with a programme of activities that will bring pleasure and leisure, play and learning, back onto the lawns and around the Ride. We will use the fascinating social history of Sydney Gardens to inspire activities and learning events that bring people together, to meet, volunteer, learn and socialise.

An ‘Illuminations’ event will open the restored park, echoing the oil-lamp illuminations of the Georgian era through to the electric illuminated figures paraded through the gardens in the 1950s.

Susan Palmer, Community Ranger 8 Sydney Gardens, Bath PP-16-00071 SD 2.1 Activity Plan 2018

2.2.4 Romans and Horses

The deeper history of the gardens will also be explored through the activity plan, such as partnering with the Roman Baths to host a Roman funeral activity day. Sydney Gardens is built on the site of Bathwick Roman Cemetery, and over the centuries various coffins, tombstones and grave goods have been unearthed in the park.

One of the coffins contained the head of a horse; the theme of horses and their importance to society runs through Sydney Gardens and will be incorporated into the activity plan and interpretation with for example, climbable pony figures on the ‘Ride’.

2.2.5 The Kennet & Avon Canal

In 1793 John Rennie had surveyed the route of the canal and established that the area occupied by Sydney Gardens between the River Avon and the high ground of Bathwick Hill was the only route by which the canal could enter Bath from the east. The Kennet and Avon Canal Company paid the operators of Sydney Gardens £2,100 in return for the disruption. In addition, it was agreed that the canal and its ‘cutting’ should be landscaped according to the Picturesque taste of the time. The cutting was dug in the winter of 1799 – 1800 and is crossed by two 'Chinoise' iron bridges cast at Coalbrookdale in 1800 (both listed Grade II).

2.2.6 The Great Western Railway

In 1837 Isambard Kingdom Brunel faced a similar challenge to Rennie and reached the same conclusion that the route of his line needed to pass through Sydney Gardens. The railway passed through the Gardens in a deep cutting, the construction of which required the demolition of several pavilions, the Labyrinth and the Castle. In addition, The Ride was truncated.

Brunel designed the cutting as a set-piece with trains presented as a spectacle to the public. The retaining wall and bridges were designed as monumental architectural features in the Classical style with viewing benches for spectators placed behind a stone balustrade.

Although Brunel had insisted his railway would improve the amenity of the Gardens, the cutting marked the end of the pleasure gardens. Subsequent developments included the introduction of the Gardener’s Lodge (1854) and Bath Proprietary College becoming tenants of Sydney Hotel in 1853 - leading to the separation of what had been the ‘Promenade’ from the rest of the gardens.

2.2.7 Before The Georgians

During the 1860s and again in 1914, landscaping works to Sydney Gardens and the Holburne Museum grounds uncovered several stone coffins containing human remains, as well as pottery, a horse’s head and Roman coin. The south west section of the Gardens was built over Bathwick

Susan Palmer, Community Ranger 9 Sydney Gardens, Bath PP-16-00071 SD 2.1 Activity Plan 2018

Roman Cemetery, one of several cemeteries on the outskirts of Roman Bath. The most famous discovery ‘in or near Sydney Gardens’ was of a tombstone Gauis Calpurnius Receptus, Priest of the Temple of Sul which has been excavated as part of the Roman Baths complex.

2.2.8 From Private to Public

In 1891 the 99 year lease of Sydney Gardens expired and in 1908 Bath City Council purchased them, selling the hotel and its gardens to the Holburne Trustees and opening the remaining gardens as a public park in 1913. At the time this also included the introduction of the Temple of Minerva (listed Grade II) which had been shown at the Empire Exhibition in the grounds of Crystal Palace in 1911. In 1914 decorative cast iron toilets were installed in the gardens, manufactured by Star Works Foundry in Birmingham. In 1920 a second toilet block was installed just for Ladies, and the earlier block was converted into a toilet for Gentlemen only. These now Grade II listed structures are rare surviving examples of some of the earliest mass produced pre-fabricated buildings.

In converting Sydney Hotel into the Holburne Museum, the architect Sir Reginald Blomfield conceived a formal rear garden that was never executed. Instead a wall was built separating the museum garden from the park completely. It is only in recent years with the introduction of two gates (2001 and 2005) that the beginning of a connection has been re-established.

This move from private garden to public park is significant. Sydney Gardens is now managed for public benefit. Popularity and enthusiasm for parks continue to rise: they are central to health and well-being, improving air quality, biodiversity, social cohesion and in the provision of outdoor play and recreation. Public parks have proven benefits for mental and physical health.

2.2.9 Recent history

The more recent history of the park from the 1960s to the present day has not been well documented, providing an opportunity for a comprehensive capturing of the ‘living history’ to contribute with the assistance during the Delivery Phase.

We have met and talked with older people from neighbourhoods and surrounding towns who have memories of Sydney Gardens from the 1950s onwards, of watching the trains as children, who now bring their own grandchildren to the park. This living social history will be captured and archived in our project.

Susan Palmer, Community Ranger 10 Sydney Gardens, Bath PP-16-00071 SD 2.1 Activity Plan 2018

2.3 Sydney Gardens today

Sydney Gardens is a popular, well used and much loved park - a key green space on the eastern side of Bath. Its Facebook location page is one source that demonstrates the affection that both local residents and visitors hold for the Gardens - it is regularly 'tagged' in posts that celebrate the peaceful atmosphere, the railway line, canal, the park as a meeting point, and the relaxing playful lawned areas.

Sydney Gardens sits in a valley bottom, with steeply rising hills to the west and east, and this valley is cut through by the River Avon, Kennet and Avon Canal and the Great Western railway line. The Gardens are surrounded by busy roads. There are houses and flats on all sides (but with little or no gardens), two primary schools (one with no outside green play space at all), one secondary school, a large hotel and the University of Bath - all within easy walking distance. The steep terrain, water bodies, railway, roads and heavily restricted (and costly) parking immediately adjacent to the park, make it necessary for most visitors to come on foot and to be prepared to walk up to 2km to get to the park.

Sydney Gardens is located on the central hub of the green infrastructure network that extends out through the urban areas into the wider landscape, intersecting with the canal, river and rail corridors and their associated footpaths, water bodies and cycle routes.

The Great Western rail line and the Kennet & Avon Canal routes link to the national and regional transport network. The park is a portal and connective point to and for established national land managers such as the National Trust, the Canal and River Trust and Network Rail.

Over 465,000 visitors (based on a series of recent visitor surveys in 2016) use the park annually, as a destination to play, walk and relax as well as a key connecting route between communities and infrastructure, and of course as part of visiting the Holburne Museum with its distinctive cultural programming and learning resources.

Its past is evident through the significant buildings and features: the Temple of Minerva, the Loggia, the bridges and views to the train line and canal, but they are urgently in need of restoration and repair. The Grade II Listed Edwardian Toilets are hidden and 'at risk' behind the modern toilet block. The shrubberies are outgrown, its ancient and Champion trees unmarked, ruins and rockeries and a Georgian Reservoir are unexplored.

Ad-hoc additions, the awkward siting of the 'depot' area adjacent to the Holburne, and change of use of some of the buildings have meant them falling into disuse. The built and natural heritage is clearly in need of rejuvenation.

The park has a wonderful shape and aspect, with a calm atmosphere. It is used as a venue to host the very occasional large scale event (the annual Bath Carnival), by local nurseries as a green play space, by running groups and dog walkers, by trainspotters and picnickers.

Residents Associations and educational institutions in the locality cite Sydney Gardens as an

Susan Palmer, Community Ranger 11 Sydney Gardens, Bath PP-16-00071 SD 2.1 Activity Plan 2018 essential green space, a vital through-route and social peaceful place in the eastern side of Bath; for example, Bathwick Primary School just across the road from the park, does not have its own green play space.

Sydney Gardens attracts and brings pleasure to both local residents and international tourists. Its unique original design is still intact, and its history written into the rings of the magnificent trees.

This restoration project with its associated activity programme would lift Sydney Gardens up, reconnect it with the Holburne Museum, revitalise the neighbourhood and stop this important and valuable heritage asset from further decline.

2.4 Bath's Historic Parks and Gardens

Sydney Gardens is part of a portfolio of nationally significant green spaces and parks in Bath, managed by a dedicated and resourceful team of B&NES Council parks managers, project officers and maintenance staff. Bath has 9 nationally registered historic parks and gardens and a further 23 local parks or gardens protected under local planning policy.

One of the group of historic parks and gardens in the city, B&NES Council are committed to managing this significant group of parks:

'Historic parks and gardens are highly significant heritage assets and an extremely important cultural heritage legacy ... (they) represent the tastes, intellectual concerns, sensibilities and sometimes moral outlook of the period in which they were created.

Historic parks and gardens are an outstanding resource that offer ... a rewarding intellectual and sensual experience and a place to enjoy leisure activities. Bath and North East Somerset is proud to possess many historic parks and gardens in private and public ownership. The Council is responsible for the maintenance of a number including the Botanical Garden in Victoria Park, Sydney Gardens and Henrietta Gardens in Bath.'

2.5 The Holburne Museum and Sydney Gardens

The Holburne Museum, an established and highly valued key visitor attraction and cultural focus for the city, is in the footprint of the park. Restoring Sydney Gardens and celebrating its distinctive history integrates it into the internationally important status.

The re-opening of the Holburne Museum with its extension by Eric Parry has dramatically changed the Museum and its relationship with Sydney Gardens. Opening onto the Gardens Parry’s extension re-establishes the original connection between the building and its landscape that was severed when the building was converted into a Museum in the early 20th Century. The re-opened Holburne and the introduction of free entry has transformed every aspect of its activity and seen visitor numbers increase by more than 500%. With 130,000 visitors per year, it is the most popular visitor attraction within B&NES after the Roman Baths and Abbey.

Susan Palmer, Community Ranger 12 Sydney Gardens, Bath PP-16-00071 SD 2.1 Activity Plan 2018

Parry’s extension (HLF funded, 2005) was always conceived and designed as the first step towards a fuller reintegration of the Museum Garden and the public park which this project seeks to realise: a reconnection both in relation to the softening of physical architecture and psychological boundaries between the park and the museum, and crucially through partnership activities and events, programming and training.

2.6 Bath - a World Heritage Site

The ‘City of Bath’ was inscribed as a ‘cultural site’ by UNESCO on its World Heritage List in 1987. The inscription is unusual in encompassing the entire city, meaning that any major heritage projects in the city are highly likely to relate in some way to one or more of the strands ‘outstanding universal value’ (OUV) recognised by UNESCO. The strands of OUV that relate to Sydney Gardens are:  Roman archaeology  18th century town planning  18th century architecture  The social aspirations that the architecture and town planning reflect

Sydney Gardens is firmly sited within the historic context of Bath as a world heritage city. Other Heritage Lottery funded projects, both funded and in development, form a key platform on which to celebrate this distinctive heritage: Bath Abbey Footprint Project, Bathscape and Cleveland Pools. Bath holds a high international profile, far beyond that normally expected of a city of its size in South West England.

2.7 The need for funding

While Sydney Gardens is well used today, and a much loved local park, there is an important opportunity and need: to partner with and bring together professional bodies and civic organisations, community resources and voluntary groups, educational institutions and learning platforms, local housing and residents associations, in creating a first class, innovative and welcoming participatory activity programme in a beautifully restored 21st Century Pleasure Garden, serving diverse needs and ages.

Susan Palmer, Community Ranger 13 Sydney Gardens, Bath PP-16-00071 SD 2.1 Activity Plan 2018

3. Where are we now? - context and process

3.1 Recent context leading to the Parks for People Project application

Sydney Gardens is a highly significant historic park in the World Heritage city of Bath, but it has suffered long term neglect of its heritage status and is yet to reach its potential; a restoration and development project is long overdue. Proposals for the restoration of Sydney Gardens have been in development for more than 25 years.

Sydney Gardens' listed Grade 2 buildings are in poor repair, particularly the Edwardian Toilets, with other significant features in need of restoration. The play area has a minimal provision of equipment, alongside disused buildings and underused resources within the grounds. The shrubberies and natural heritage are in need of care and attention, to protect as well as increase the biodiversity in the park.

There is no physical interpretation on the site, with no signage or interpretation except for the B&NES Council 'user information' parks signs. Its fascinating history, the meaning of the shapes and forms in the landscape invisible to visitors.

Sydney Gardens’ history is recorded in a few books, articles and as part of other heritage restorations, for example Brenda Snaddon's book 'The Last Promenade', and historian and writer Kirsten Elliot's occasional led tour of the park 'No Swinging on Sundays'.

The history of Sydney Gardens is also included in the Holburne Museum's display of its HLF funded renovation project in 2005. The Canal and River Trust have a QR code access audio walk that takes in some of the history of the gardens, the Jane Austen costumed parade makes an annual visit to the Gardens, and basic information about the heritage of the park can be found on Historic England, Wikipedia, Jane Austen Society and Visit Bath websites.

While self-led play takes place in the park on the lovely central lawn areas, with the annual Bath Carnival being hosted in the grounds, no other events or activities currently take place in the park. From its history as a host to galas, pageants, exhibitions and entertainments, and particularly its importance as a social meeting point, our project arrives at an important moment to revitalise and raise the profile of Sydney Gardens to achieve a renaissance as a unique, fun and restorative environment.

Susan Palmer, Community Ranger 14 Sydney Gardens, Bath PP-16-00071 SD 2.1 Activity Plan 2018

3.2 Recent proposals for restoration

The Round One Activity Plan articulated the history behind the point we have arrived at today.

In summary, the Parks for People bid follows the de-coupling of the park restoration from that of the Holburne Museum, and the withdrawal of a stand-alone proposal predicated on the transfer of the park asset to community ownership that the local community rejected. Since 2013, the Council has needed to re-build trust with, and involvement from, the local community and groups connected with the Gardens over the past five years. This has now been achieved.

The Friends of Sydney Gardens were formed in 2013 and since 2014, have collaborated extensively with the Council Parks Service running weekly litter picks, helping lead community planting days and undertaking visitor number surveys as part of the development of the 2016 Round 1 HLF bid.

In November 2013 a survey of local residents living within 2km of the Gardens by consultant Sarah Mowls was commissioned to better understand what it was that local people valued about the Gardens, the barriers that prevented them from visiting it and their suggestions for improvements. A Sydney Gardens Steering Group of local residents’ associations, ward councillors and the Holburne Museum was set up in 2014 to plan a revised bid.

3.3 Sydney Gardens Round 1 HLF Parks for People bid

In March 2016 a design team was commissioned to re-engage with local people and involve them in the development of a Round 1 submission to the HLF under the Parks for People Programme, which involved the Steering Group, visitor observation surveys with the Friends, stakeholder forums and public consultations.

Between 2013 and August 2016 around 600 individuals of all ages gave their views on the Gardens and the restoration proposals, and representatives of local residents associations, heritage interests, school governors, local councillors and Friends were fully involved in the collection and interpretation of the information and the evolving design plans.

Thorough and extensive research and consultation was undertaken in the Round 1 bid, to build a strong case for the restoration of Sydney Gardens. This evidence was subsequently detailed into the Round 1 Activity Plan by Alison Millward (consultant with LDA Design).

Following the successful Round 1 application, B&NES recruited three new Sydney Gardens Project Team posts for the Development Phase (Project Manager, Community Ranger, Heritage Intern), enabling a focused and fresh approach to taking the Parks for People bid forward.

Through the Round 1 bid, and in the years leading up to that, strong and sustainable working practices and partnerships have been formed through connecting across multiple professional institutions and voluntary community groups, such as Holburne Museum, Friends of Sydney Gardens, Julian House, Bathwick Primary School, Age UK Bath, Canal and River Trust to name a few. The Round 2 bid fully develops and builds on these practices and plans.

Susan Palmer, Community Ranger 15 Sydney Gardens, Bath PP-16-00071 SD 2.1 Activity Plan 2018

For a full list of organisations and consultees please refer to: - Appendix SD2.5 Public Engagement Report - S3e.1 Public Consultation & Design Exhibition Report - Appendix SD 2.8 Evidence from public consultations for Activity Plan - Appendix SD 2.15 Record of Meetings with partners and organisations in development phase

We are ready to deliver a strong activity plan, rich in evidence of the work already undertaken for Sydney Gardens, Bath.

3.4 Bath and NE Somerset Council Strategic Policy Context

As mentioned earlier, proposals to restore Sydney Gardens have been several years in development already, and the strategic policy context summarised below demonstrates the ongoing need to achieve this restoration for the benefit of the heritage, people and communities.

B&NES is a unitary council that contains the administrative area stretching from the outskirts of Bristol, south into the Mendip Hills and east to the southern Cotswold Hills and Wiltshire border. It is located in an area of the country well known for its beautiful natural environment, high quality of life and outstanding built environment. The district encompasses a diverse range of places, each with their own distinctive history, identity and communities, including the City of Bath which is a designated World Heritage Site.

B&NES is made up of a diverse mix of city, market towns, villages and rural hinterlands. Over two thirds of the area is designated as an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty and Green Belt. The area is home to a diverse range of wildlife of national and international importance, and the district is served by a network of footpaths and cycle-ways. The Council recognises that the different character and needs of each community presents a variety of challenges which must be carefully balanced in the interests of the entire area. However this mix of people and place, of urban and rural also represents enormous potential and opportunity for the future success, wellbeing and sustainability of the district.

The City of Bath is the largest urban settlement within the B&NES area and forms the main urban conurbation, acting as the commercial and recreational heart of the district. It is home to approximately 89,000 or 50% of the population and is the main centre of economic and cultural activity. The city has two universities and is a major centre of sporting excellence.

It is one of the few entire cities in the world to be named a UNESCO World Heritage Site. This recognises the cultural, historical and environmental importance of both the natural and built features that exist in Bath. These include its landscape setting, its Roman archaeology, its Georgian architecture and town planning, its three hot springs and the remarkable cultural and social life which evolved around them. Today, Bath remains an important local and regional centre as well as a national and international visitor destination, attracting over four million visitors a year.

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Bath contributes the most to the economy of the area. However, within Bath there are also real pockets of disadvantage – the Twerton / Whiteway area falls within the top 20% most deprived Lower Super Output Areas (LSOAs) in the country and Snow Hill/London Road area (in Walcot Ward) falls within the top 40% most deprived LSOAs (Source: 2015 Indices of Multiple Deprivation – Bath and North East Somerset Overview).

There is significant commuter congestion into Bath affecting air quality, including the Bathwick area surrounding Sydney Gardens and along the Beckford Road. Linked to this is the need to enhance the public realm (the streets and public spaces between buildings) and parks and green spaces within the city, in order to create better places and spaces for people, increase economic activity, reduce fear of crime and foster health and wellbeing.

In order to fully respond to the changes and issues identified in the area, the Council has agreed a long term vision for the area to 2026 in its Sustainable Community Strategy: to make Bath & North East Somerset a distinctive place with vibrant, sustainable communities where everyone fulfils their potential. As the local authority for the area we are therefore working towards ensuring that we create:

A distinctive place that:  Maintains and enhances its outstanding built and natural environment  Has a dynamic, low carbon economy  Achieves connectivity  Has world class arts and culture

Vibrant sustainable communities:  That are lively and inclusive  Places where people feel safe, take responsibility and make a contribution  That are carbon neutral  Where people who are disadvantaged are supported  Where vulnerable people are protected  Where people feel proud to live

Communities where everyone fulfils their potential by having equal opportunity to:  Learn and develop skills  Enjoy a healthy, low carbon lifestyle  Influence the future of their area  Contribute to the economy and society.

This Vision will be delivered by the implementation of a number of plans and strategies created by all those organisations involved in the Partnership. These strategies include the Local Development Framework, including the Core Strategy, which sets out our policies for planning and land use across the area. The Local Area Agreement and the Infrastructure Delivery Planning Strategy also contribute to delivery. Sustainability is key to the development of B&NES and our work must meet the needs of the current population without compromising the needs of future generations. This also aligns with the aims of the Sydney Gardens Project and Heritage Lottery Fund aims.

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3.5 Policy Context for the restoration of Sydney Gardens

B&NES Core Strategy 2011-29: CP7 - The integrity, multi-functionality, quality and connectivity of the strategic Green Infrastructure network will be maintained, protected and enhanced. B&NES Placemaking Plan 2015-2016

Vision: Bath’s already strong identity as a therapeutic place will be enhanced by boosting its performance as an enjoyable city for leisure, recreation and shopping with a vivacious cultural scene and a highly valued green infrastructure network.

B&NES Green Infrastructure Strategy 2013 Strategy – to make sure that the natural environment works for the community by making the most of the benefits it can and should be providing for people, places and nature. Provide – safe open spaces and play areas that are stimulating and challenging for children; family friendly environments that enable opportunities for active play and planned physical activity.

B&NES Green Space Strategy 2015-29 Objectives to:  Deliver spaces which help support fit and healthy communities  Encourage communities to explore their green infrastructure through a connected  green grid  Support communities to connect with their green spaces  Reveal and celebrate the unique local heritage.

B&NES Play Plan - 2017 Aims include:  Fulfil the GSS play based recommendations  Create or install up to date designs for the new generation; to meet their needs and desires and ensure each space suits the demographic that will use it.  Consult with local children, young people and adults to inform our decisions  Develop access to ecology and green spaces within play areas and likewise develop more play opportunities in green spaces  Keep sites well presented; the team recognises that spaces and equipment are better used, better looked after, and more appreciated if they are well maintained

B&NES Fit for Life 2104-2019 Vision – to get more people, more active, more often, in safe, sustainable environments leading to improved health and wellbeing for all. Priority groups – 14-18 year olds (particularly females), older people and those with long term health conditions and disabilities.

B&NES Joint Health and Wellbeing Strategy 2015-2019 Theme – Preventing ill health by creating healthy and sustainable places which support and

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enable people in our communities to lead healthy sustainable lives. Promote - mental wellbeing and support recovery Improve - skills and employment to reduce health inequality.

Bathscape Landscape Partnership Programme 2016:  To engage people in their local greenspaces  Work with families who infrequently or never visit the natural environment  Engage people with the landscape through skills and learning development  Inspire people and communities to care for the natural environment  Provide information, interpretation and signing  Support adults to increase levels of physical and mental wellbeing  Increase contact with the landscape to reduce social isolation  Encourage more walking and cycling.

World Heritage Site Management Plan 2-10-16 Objective 12: Ensure that landscape and natural elements of the Site and its setting, including heritage sites and their associated remains, are protected, acknowledged, understood and managed alongside the Site.

West of England Pollinator Strategy 2018 Part of DEFRA's National Pollinator Strategy Adopted by B&NES for local delivery

3.6 B&NES Parks Service - Structure and Staffing

Sydney Gardens is owned and managed by B&NES Council. The Sydney Gardens project team sits within the Parks Service, dedicated to the restoration project, managed by and working closely with Paul Pearce, Project Team Leader, in the Parks service.

Other key staff from the Council that have been involved in developing the project include:

 Accessibility and Cycling Officer  Arboreal Management Team  Archaeology Officer  Arts Development Team  Bath In Time (Council run collection of historic photographs, drawings, maps etc.)  Bath Record Office  Data Team  Environment and Design Team  Events Team  IT and web design team  Parks and Trees Team  Parks Play and Community Development Officer  Parks Service Heritage Parks Team

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 Planning and Conservation  Roman Baths Curatorial Team  World Heritage Team  Victoria Art Gallery

The Council is committed and dedicated to the restoration of Sydney Gardens and its ongoing and future management as part of its portfolio of historic parks and gardens, as demonstrated by the level of support from departmental staff outside the project team.

Until 2017, the park had one onsite gardener working over the week. Now, the park is managed by the Heritage Parks Maintenance Team visiting regularly to mow, prune and maintain it.

3.6.1 Sydney Gardens Project Team

Sydney Gardens Project Manager: Keith Rowe FT 1.0 Sydney Gardens Community Ranger: Sue Palmer PT 0.6 Heritage Intern (Development): Hannah Myall FT 1.0 Landscape Management Intern (Delivery) PT 0.6 Communications and Participation Intern (Delivery) PT 0.4 Horticultural Participation Office (Delivery) PT 0.4 Gardener Apprentice (Delivery) FT 1.0

This organisational structure and staffing will enable the Activity Plan to be delivered with care and quality.

Refer: SD 9 Job Descriptions for new posts

3.7 B&NES Parks Foundation - a new award from NESTA's Re-thinking Parks

Bristol City Council and Bath & Northeast Somerset Council have recently been awarded £193,617 by NESTA’s Re-thinking Parks Programme to develop a parks foundation to support improvement projects and encourage volunteering in parks in Bristol and Bath. The project will build on, and learn from, the work of the Bournemouth Parks Foundation - the pioneering Foundation that was supported by Rethinking Parks in 2014.

Some of the aims of the foundation include:

 Allowing residents, visitors, community organisations and local businesses to support improvements and activities in parks;  Developing sustainable relationships between business, parks and their communities;  Enabling public donations for specific projects both in individual parks and across the cities;  Using innovative ideas to seek unrestricted public donations, including legacies;  Working with park groups and others to apply for grants;

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 Encourage and facilitate a wider range of volunteering opportunities in parks;

This Parks Foundation project will take place during the Delivery of the Sydney Gardens Parks for People Project, ensuring that the benefits of infrastructure, fundraising and expanded volunteering strategies feed into the legacy for Sydney Gardens.

B&NES Council is not looking at putting the ownership or management of Sydney Gardens or any other parks in its care, into a Trust or Foundation. The Foundation model that we’re looking at with NESTA funding will run in parallel with a conventional parks operation, just focusing on raising funds and supporting volunteers for parks projects.

3.8 Key Stakeholder Groups engaged in strategic management

These stakeholder groups currently contribute to strategic decision making and the practical management of the park including:  The Friends of Sydney Gardens  Sydney Gardens Steering Group

The Sydney Gardens Steering Group comprises of:  B&NES Councillor for Communities  Parks Team Leader  Abbey Ward councillor  Bathwick Ward councillor  Walcot Ward councillor  Friends of Sydney Gardens  Pulteney Estate Residents Association  Bathwick Hill Residents Association  Bathwick Estates Residents Association  Sydney Buildings Association  Holburne Museum  Canal & River Trust

The Steering Group has met every two months over the last four years to support the development of the proposals.

Beyond the Steering Group there are other key stakeholders that have engaged with the project and the design plans:  Avon Gardens Trust  Bath Federation of Residents Associations  Bath Preservation Trust  Bath Spa University  Historic England  Network Rail  University of Bath.

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3.9 How is Sydney Gardens currently interpreted?

There is no interpretation or information about the heritage in the park. There is one entrance sign 'Sydney Gardens' at the main entrance, and the other entrances have B&NES Parks basic information boards with rules, alongside temporary wooden boards that host information posters.

The history of the park is described on a number of websites: www.bathnes.gov.uk/sydneygardens https://visitbath.co.uk/listings/single/sydney-gardens/ www.friendsofsydneygardens.org www.historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1001258 www.janeausten.co.uk/sydney-gardens-bath

There is a Facebook location page for the park: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Sydney-Gardens/555233541181705

Sydney Gardens’ unique history and heritage is recorded in a few books, articles and as part of other heritage restorations, including Brenda Snaddon's book 'The Last Promenade', and historian and writer Kirsten Elliot's occasional led tour of the park 'No Swinging on Sundays', to be published as a book in the winter of 2018-19.

The history of Sydney Gardens is also included in the Holburne Museum's public interpretation display from its HLF funded renovation project. Significant objects are held in the Victoria Art Museum and Collection, and Bath in Time, including paintings by Paul Nash of the canal bridges, and an entrance token to the 18th Century Pleasure Garden, and occasionally displayed as part of exhibitions, including the recent 'Entertainments in Bath' exhibition in the Spring of 2018.

The Gardens are not currently being used as part of the formal learning of the local primary and secondary schools. However, the park provides an extraordinary potential field study location and resource for students studying architecture, landscape heritage, engineering and heritage management.

3.10 What we know about our audience 3.10.1 Our local audience: demographic context

Local Population & Wards http://www.bathnes.gov.uk/services/your-council-and-democracy/local-research-and-statistics/wiki/bath-forum-area

The park sits at the meeting point of three wards in Bath, each with their own distinctive population profiles:

 Abbey Ward – predominantly middle-aged and older people, home owners, with low numbers of young adults and children, 9% retired, 51% with high level qualifications

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and 19% with a limiting long term condition.  Bathwick Ward – predominantly students (51%), young adults and parents of young children, over 14% from non-White backgrounds including 7% Chinese.  Walcot Ward – predominantly young people (under 44s) with 16% under 16 and 13% in social rented housing.

None of these wards feature in the top 10% of most deprived areas in the B&NES district but the Snow Hill/London Road Lower Super Output Area in Walcot ward falls within the 40% most deprived areas in the country.

(Figures from Census in 2011 and most recent Indices of Deprivation from 2015, BathNES Council)

Useful overview statistics (from 2011 Census) http://www.bathnes.gov.uk/services/your-council-and-democracy/local-research-and-statistics/wiki/population

 The Bath Area has a 'usual resident' population of about 88,859. This is expected to increase by an average of 7% by 2024 in the three wards around the park.  There is a diversity of increases in age brackets across the 3 wards, with some wards showing a marked increase in older people above the age of 80, people in their 50s and children under 4  Bathwick is the only ward with a higher proportion of black and minority ethnic people than the England & Wales average, this maybe due to the fact that the University of Bath is located in this ward

3.10.2 Our wider audience: visitors and tourists

Being at the end of Great Pulteney Street and therefore within easy access to the historic city centre of Bath and in close proximity to the Holburne Museum, many hotels, guest houses and restaurants, the park attracts a significant number of tourists (to be seen walking through the park with maps and guidebooks in hand) every day of the year.

During term time it is typical to see young, middle-aged and older couples enjoying the park. In the school holidays it is typical to come across family groups including a number from out of town and from overseas.

Sydney Gardens is a popular place to tag on social media, especially on its location Facebook page. The local Chinese Restaurant Rui, opposite the main park entrance, attracts a significant number of diners, both residents and tourists, and the park offers a relaxing stop off for them. According to B&NES Tourism and Visitor Economy data from 2014:

 969,900 overnight tourist visits to Bath & North East Somerset.  Bath typically attracts adults in the middle-to-older age groups with a high proportion from the more affluent, AB socio-economic category  The most popular activities were visiting attractions, eating out and shopping

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 Walking in the countryside nearby Bath was amongst the popular activities for overnight stayers.  4.8 million day visitors to B&NES  £411 million was spent by tourists in B&NES.  The Holburne Museum has an average of 100,000 visitors a year, with 60% of visitors from outside Bath  In 2015 the City of Bath ranked 12th in the VisitBritain ranking of top cities/towns for international staying visitors.  323,000 international visitors to Bath in 2015, a 36.8% increase from 2014.

3.10.3 The national context of engagement with green space

The Monitor of Engagement with the Natural Environment (MENE) produced by Natural England is now in its eighth year of survey. The results from March 2015 to February 2016 (updated May 2016) indicated that the national patterns of engagement with the natural environment:

 59% visit a green space weekly  26% visit parks in towns and cities  48% walk with a dog  10% visited with children  Health and exercise continue to be one of the most frequently cited motivations  The main barrier to visiting continues to be a lack of time due to work  Children from minority ethnic households were less likely to visit the natural environment than those from White households  Where adults were frequent visitors so too were their children  Parks in towns and cities continued to be the most visited specific destination type with around three in ten (or an estimated 879 million) visits recorded in 2015/16

3.10.4 The use of green space by Bath residents

As part of the consultations to develop the latest B&NES Green Space Strategy, a general household survey was conducted in 2015 which was distributed to 3000 households and gathered 594 responses. A summary of the findings:

 93% think green spaces are important and quite important to their everyday lives  80% value green spaces for their health benefits  69% value green spaces for quiet relaxation and for picnicking, walking the dog, play and recreational opportunities for children and young people  64% use their local park at least monthly, 25% weekly and 17% daily  Walking is the normal mode of travel to green spaces  The barriers people face include, being disabled, limited time, cost of parking, dog fouling, lack of toilets and inadequate welcome signage

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 59% wanted improvements to their parks and recreation grounds; 41% to play areas and 36% to facilities for teenagers.

An online survey of 269 members of Bath’s Youth Parliament (12-21 year olds) found that:  Local parks were the most commonly used green space (64%)  There was a desire for more access to wild natural areas, cycle tracks and water park features.

3.10.5 Park user numbers, profile and visitor observation survey data

Visitor observation surveys undertaken in April and May of 2016 established evidence of approximately 465,800 visits to Sydney Gardens each year. We also know that approximately 1 in 3 visitors go in combination with a visit to the Holburne Museum and/or Café (Community Survey 2013).

For full details and analysis of the visitor observation surveys and conclusions, including comparison between the visitor profile and the ward census statistics undertaken in 2016, refer to: SD 2.9 Audience and Visitor Survey Data (Round 1)

A summary of what we have learned about visitors to Sydney Gardens:

 The profile of users in 2016 was predominantly young with 16% under 16 years and 56% between 16 and 44 years  This profile was most similar to the population of Walcot Ward, augmented with the presence of the student population in Bathwick ward linked to the University of Bath campus nearby  There was some under-representation of people over 65 given that they formed a significant percentage of the population in the Abbey and Bathwick wards and so too amongst the day visitors and tourists  The fairly even split between males and females indicated that females were not put off from visiting this park  The high percentage of those observed to be in a group indicated that this was an already very sociable park  There were slightly fewer users from non-White cultural backgrounds than might have been expected given the local population profile and the attraction of the park to tourists from around the world.  The most striking discrepancy was the virtual absence in the park of anyone with an observable disability, with less than 1% of visitors. According to Census 2011 data, 12% of people from Bathwick Ward, 11% from Walcot, and 19% from Abbey are disabled or have limited ability.

On average there were 124 visits per hour and roughly twice as many visitors on weekend days compared to weekdays.

 92% of local residents visit the Gardens and on average once a week

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 The main reasons to visit were to walk, visit the canal, use as a through route, to relax, use the children’s play area or combine with a visit to the Holburne Museum  65% of people with junior or senior school children said their children used the park to meet up with friends, as a through route, to visit the canal or use the play area.  No significant barriers to use were identified, other than the absence of things to do there (7%) a lack of time or it being too far away  Over half had attended and enjoyed special events such as a lantern procession, art exhibitions and the Easter Eggstravaganza (organised by the Holburne)  95% agreed that Sydney Gardens was a place for the whole community to enjoy  94% agreed that Sydney Gardens was an important amenity in the area  More than 50% felt there was not enough to do and were dissatisfied with the play area

3.10.6 Summary of evidence, including non users

Round 1 research concluded the following strategic approach to engaging people in the heritage of Sydney Gardens:

 Local residents living within 2km of the park will be our primary target audience  We will significantly increase the recreational and learning offer for the youngest and oldest members of the local community  We will develop bespoke packages of therapeutic activities to appeal to our under- represented and vulnerable audiences including the homeless, victims of abuse, people with disabilities and those suffering poor mental and physical health  We will develop bespoke packages for formal and informal learners and for young people in particular  We will enhance the learning and pleasure of visits for day visitors and tourists  We will encourage those passing through to stay longer and learn more about the unique heritage of the space.

These 'target' or priority audiences and groups were established through the research for the Round 1 bid:

 Local children and their families  Teenagers and young adults  Over 65s  Vulnerable people (Homeless, Victims of abuse)  People in poor health (physical or mental health)  Day visitors and tourists  Learners  Through routers.

The age group of 0-4 were under-represented in the visitor surveys, as well as the over 65s. The park was also identified in Round 1 as a focus for dementia friendly activities, including the proposal to make it the first dementia friendly park in Bath, with a circular route and practical resources to assist users. Round 1 also seeded a relationship with the Julian House DVA Services

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In the public consultations in Round 1, a significant minority raised safety issues about concealed spaces, poor lighting, sexual activity, drug abuse and drunkenness. It was also understood that children attending King Edwards School were advised not to use the park as a through route, even though as a school they use it as a circular running route.

Round 1 research confirmed the park is used by homeless people. The public toilets are also used for rough sleeping, and there are instances of drug and substance abuse, particularly in the overgrown areas of the park. The issue of the park being used as an outdoor toilet was raised as a concern by the Friends. This is not distinct or unique to Sydney Gardens - all the parks in Bath host homeless people at various times.

In the Development Phase, we built on the specific research from Round 1 to find out more about these priority audiences and how our Activity Plan could work with these communities - this is detailed in section 4.

3.11 What we know about previous levels of engagement and activity

Considering that Sydney Gardens was a hub of activity, celebration, meeting and socialising for many years, from its early days as a Georgian Pleasure Garden to the Flower Shows of the 20th Century, in recent years there has been little activity in the park.

The Holburne has generated a strong programme of participatory community activity, but that is within the Museum grounds, or contained in the Gardener's Lodge (leased by the Holburne as their community, education and outreach space).

The existing B&NES Events Team do not have the resources to organise events any more.

This table captures most of the activity in the park in the lead up to the Round 1 bid, as organised by communities and organisations.

Table 1: General Events and Activities that have happened in Sydney Gardens up to 2017

Events & Activities Organiser Operational Allotments Sydney Garden Allotments Closed Age UK Bath Health Walk Age UK Bath Monthly volunteer led walk Art exhibitions Holburne Museum Gardeners Lodge Bath Carnival The Bath School of Samba Annual, ongoing Bowling Sydney Gardens Bowls Club Closed Christmas Light installation Holburne Museum Museum Garden only Colourscape Holburne Museum Museum Garden only

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Community Action Gardening Friends of Sydney Gardens Occasional (bulb planting) Days Easter Eggstravanganza Holburne Museum Museum Garden Ghosts in the Garden Holburne Museum, University of Part of AHRC research West of England and media project, technology no longer company Splash and Ripple functioning Guided walks Friends of Sydney Gardens On demand Lantern Procession Holburne Museum No longer operating due to resourcing issues Mark in the Park Somerset Constabulary Not operating currently Pathways to Wellbeing Holburne Museum Very successful, and ongoing MA in Heritage Management Bath Spa University Ongoing, but not active in the park Sharing Our History: Holburne, Holburne Museum Selected displays in Museum Bathwick and Sydney Gardens Tennis coaching Private coaches Ongoing Toddlealong art classes Holburne Museum Gardener's Lodge, ongoing Train spotting Individuals Ongoing Walk of Life finish line Royal United Hospital Occasional

3.11.1 Volunteering in the park

Volunteer involvement in Sydney Gardens has been organised and led by the Friends of Sydney Gardens since 2014. This includes:

 A number of Community Action Days each year to plant bulbs which have attracted up to 30 people a session  Monthly volunteer gardening sessions attended by 5 - 8 people  Guided walks for guests at the Bath Spa Hotel on occasion  Litter picks at the weekends on every Saturday by two volunteers  Visitor observation surveys  Monthly Committee Meetings  Attending and working with the Sydney Gardens Steering Group.

3.11.2 Skills and Training in the Park

The Parks Heritage Team and B&NES gardeners are trained up to NVQ Level 2 in horticultural skills and are required to gain qualifications in the use of power tools including brush cutters and chain saws.

B&NES Human Resources provides training in events management covering safeguarding, handling aggression, equality and diversity, and first aid.

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The Friends have several professionals amongst their members with relevant skills and qualifications in horticulture, archiving and guiding. A few have also been trained up by B&NES Parks Department as accredited Community Volunteers on health and safety, protecting the public at events and safe tool use. Six Friends have also been trained up as visitor observation surveyors for the Round 1 bid.

Sydney Gardens are not currently being used as part of the formal learning of the local primary and secondary schools. However, the park provides a potential field study location for students studying architecture, stone conservation, landscape heritage and heritage management.

‘Tree trail: 10/10 First, I went on a tree trail. I liked the tree trail because we did tree scraping which was really fun and I learnt about trees I didn’t know about!’

Feedback from Primary School child about education sessions in Sydney Gardens, led by Lucia Harley, November 2017

‘The day worked very well for FoSG. The event was extremely well attended. We engaged via our stall with numerous members of the public and signed up 12 new paid members on the day. The preparation for the event did run well; with the greatly appreciated help and support from the Sydney Garden PfP team.’

Friends of Sydney Gardens Feedback on the Community Day, co-run with FoSG and the SG project team, April 2018

‘Amazing – Thank you!’ ‘Any investment to our historic parks is welcome.’ ‘Brilliant to see the proposed improvements.’ ‘Excellent, what a relief. Thank you, thank you for listening [retention of tennis courts].’ ‘Keep up the good work!’ ‘Great idea, great for the community.’

Comments from April 2018 Design Exhibition

‘Thank you so much for your thoughtfulness in planning this to suit us and anyone who is interested. I do hope it is well used. I am in a powered wheelchair so can go along at my pleasure!’ ‘Café for tea would be especially great. Bandstand please with music, children singing. Flowers. Mix of children & adults. Some activities e.g. boules to watch.’

Comments collected for Michelle Tarrant's report into barriers in participation for older people, April 2018

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4.0 Sydney Gardens Development Phase focus and work 2017 - 2018

In summary:

Round 1 funding enabled us to develop the important work and partnerships established and firmly build on the data collected and research findings gathered from 2013 to 2016; this collated evidence creates the baseline for our project monitoring and evaluation. Refer: SD 14.1 Evaluating Reporting Spreadsheet

Communities of interest, residents and partners have been extensively consulted about the park design and restoration, with clear strategies, targets and ideas identified over the past decade. In our Development Phase, we carefully shaped our strategy for our Round 2 bid so as not to create 'consultation fatigue' and to repeat questions that had already been answered in previous funding and design plan consultations.

We have collected further evidence and researched our audiences building on that previously collected data and using it as a platform for a detailed and specific investigation over the past 16 months, from May 2017 until this submission.

Having listened to voices and views from across communities of interest, we have developed and adjusted the design plans for the park. Refer: SD 15.2 Development of Sydney Gardens Round 1 to Round 2.

We met with community groups, partners, organisations and individuals to develop collaborative plans in line with existing and new programmes of engagement. Refer: SD 2.15 Record of meetings with partners and organisations.

We commissioned 3 outreach research reports to give us insight into our priority or target audiences, undertook 2 public consultations and design exhibitions to invite feedback and comments that we addressed, and commissioned 1 report into planning and costing a major Illuminations event in the park. Where we have found issues that are more complex, for example cycle and pedestrian shared paths, we have designed activities to move these issues forward and resolve them in the Delivery Phase (Refer: 6. Action Plan: PP1 Share the Space Soapbox).

We developed strategies and partnerships, trialed activities and events including running dedicated sessions, for example with Julian House DVA Service, Bathwick Primary School and Bath Home Educators, in order to undertake detailed research and consultation. And we organised a one-off ambitious hidden history talk to expand understandings of heritage and the community of engagement.

Section 4 details this evidence and explains how we used the Development Phase, and refers to supporting appendices and documents.

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4.1 Summary of our Activity Plan development during the Development Phase

We have:

 Consulted on specific responsive changes to the design plan of the park through 2 public consultations and design exhibitions Refer: S3e.1 Public Consultation and Design Exhibition Report  Ensured all options around design and infrastructure have been examined in detail including entrances and exits, highways and connecting routes, in relation to audiences Refer: SD 15.1 Sydney Gardens Masterplan  Researched making the park Dementia Friendly, working with Bath DAA, and undertaken an initial audit to meet disability and access needs Refer: SD 2.6 Disability and Access Report  Undertaken extensive research into built and natural heritage, collated for the Interpretation Plan Refer: AD 1.1 Interpretation Plan & AD 1.2 Research for Interpretation Plan  Engaged the 'target' audiences in identifying their needs and interests, through commissioned research outreach projects, and trialled 8 activities. Refer: SD 2.3 Activities undertaken in Development Phase  Trialled learning sessions with a Primary School class, a Nursery group and Home Educators to identify both curriculum related and self-led learning resources, and commissioned a research report. Refer: SD 2.11 Report: Learning and Education Resourcing  Tested out partnerships for delivery, including the Friends of Sydney Gardens, the Holburne Museum, Julian House DVA Service and Bathwick Primary School. Refer: SD 2.3 Activities undertaken in Development Phase  Run initial training sessions for the Friends of Sydney Gardens and gardening volunteers to gauge interest and establish future strategy and focus. Refer: SD 2.3 Activities undertaken in Development Phase  Trialled public learning activities in natural heritage including Tree Identification Walks, Bird and Habitat Surveys. Refer: SD 2.3 Activities undertaken in Development Phase  Commissioned 2 outreach and research reports to understand the barriers to participation in relation to specific audiences: older people, and children and families Refer: SD 2.12 Report: Barriers to participation for children and families & SD 2.13 Report: Barriers to participation for older people  Met with key stakeholders, community organisations and voluntary groups to identify, develop and plan the Action Plan for Delivery. Refer: SD 2.15 Record of meetings with partners and organisations  Met and communicated regularly with the Friends of Sydney Gardens, attending Committee Meetings, informal conversations and enabled participation in decision making including Jane Austen statue, Activity Plan, masterplan design. Refer: SD 2.15 Record of meetings & SD 2.16 FoSG Likes & Dislikes Letter

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 Developed potential partnerships as identified by Round 1, and seeded new ones with organisations and individuals including Julian House DVA Services, Age UK Bath Walking Groups, Stroke Association Peer Support Group, Bath Society of Botanic Artists, The Park Keepers Model Railway, Mindfulness Bath.  Researched access for all, including meeting with individuals with disability needs in relation to park design, infrastructure and activities Refer: SD 2. 6 Disability and Access Report  Successfully experimented with broadening and diversifying the Sydney Gardens 'heritage audience' with a sold out talk on 'Bath & Slavery' co-hosted with the Holburne, where 10% of our audience had not heard of Sydney Gardens, and 34% had not attended a talk at the Holburne.  Grown our audience in the park, on social media and through e-newsletter subscription  Extended the volunteer base and trialled volunteer session in the park. For example, the wildflower gardening sessions tripled the usual number of volunteers from 6 to 18 participants.  Paid attention to views and opinions, listening to feedback and included them. Refer SD 2.8 Evidence from Public Consultations for Activity Plan  Drawn up a list of 'visionary' ideas and plans for the park both for this project and for future opportunities, for example, a Dog Poo Biodigester (crowdfunding activity), and a Sedum Green or Brown Roof on the Cafe Kiosk and Bothy. Refer Sheet 4 of SD 2.2 Activity Plan Supporting Database.  Communicated consistently and well with our growing audience. All our digital and physical media sources were well used: Posters in the park, a monthly e-newsletter, Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/SydneyGardensBath/) Twitter, flyers, press, blogs) and word of mouth/hearing from friends played a significant role in people participating, indicating our current methods of communication are successful in reaching audiences (data gathered through evaluation at our events and activities. Refer: SD 2.7 Communications Report  Made a short moving image work of the project team working with volunteers and The Friends of Sydney Gardens to recreate the historic Labyrinth on the former Bowls Club Lawn in 2017, to test out the format for documenting the restoration project (342 views to date) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r24lYYE7TKE

 Acknowledged and publicised the Heritage Lottery Parks for People Funding and Project on the website, alongside new information online about the heritage of Sydney Gardens www.bathnes.gov.uk/sydneygardens

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4.2 Our Development Phase Public Engagement in Numbers:

 5 Steering Group Meetings  2 Public Consultations and Design Plan Exhibitions  4 reports of commissioned research  24 activities and training events trialled  £22,865 worth of volunteering contribution, nearly double the target of £12,500  31 organisations partnered to deliver events, activities and volunteering opportunities  52 different organisations and groups in Bath engaged in consultation on the masterplan design and the activity plan  134 respondents to formal public consultations and park design plans  36 volunteers were trained  27 volunteers supported or helped organise activities  56 children and parents participated in our research into creating learning and education resources  342 local people participated in research commissioned to explore barriers and needs (older people, children and families)  499 people attended events or training in the park organised by the Community Ranger  850+ attendees at the April 2018 Community Day run in partnership with the Friends of Sydney Gardens  154 postcodes collected from events and consultations; the highest concentration of participants was from the Bathwick area as expected, but many participants were from further afield confirming a larger catchment area than anticipated.  Our e-newsletter subscriber list grew from 0 to 315 recipients in 10 months Refer: SD 2.3 Activities undertaken in Development Phase SD 2.4 Photo record of Activities in Development Phase SD 2.5 Public Engagement Report SD 2.6 Disability and Access Report SD 2.7 Communications Report SD 2.8 Evidence from Public Consultations for Activity Plan SD 2.12 Report: Barriers to participation for children and families SD 2.13 Report: Barriers to participation for older people SD 2.15 Record of meetings with partners and organisations in Development Phase S3e.1 Public Consultation and Design Exhibition Report

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4.3 Changes from the Round 1 submission

There are no significant changes between Round 1 and Round 2 in relation to activities and events, volunteering, training or target / priority audiences - only development.

Round 1 provided solid research and clear themes. We have developed these ideas and structured our plans out from these identified themes and heritage learning opportunities, and taken forward a set of capital works and activity proposals to bring benefits to the majority and minority users.

'Target' or priority audiences were accurately identified in Round 1, and the Development Phase has methodically and practically explored how these audiences can be reached and engaged. This is explored in more detail in 4.11.

Significant research has been undertaken in relation to:

 making the park dementia friendly  making the park accessible and inviting for others with disabilities  engaging and programming activity for victims of abuse (Julian house DVA Services)  mental health and well-being  engaging residents and communities who are not using the park, including barriers to visiting  barriers and needs for older people using the park

The activity strands proposed in Round 1 were 6 ‘mini action plans’ around core themes:

 Jane, Isambard, Victoria and more (famous people)  Pleasure through the centuries  Buildings, bridges, canals and railways  On the wild side.

Each of these strands have been reexamined and explored. There are now three thematic strands (which will be expanded in 5.3):

 Pleasure and Leisure - built, cultural, artistic and social heritage  People and The Park - play, entertainments, physical and mental well being  People and Nature - natural heritage, other species, trees, environmental restoration

4.4 Working with partners

During this Development Phase, we have strengthened relationships and partnerships through undertaking outreach, regular meetings, visiting groups and organisations, collaborating on trialing ideas and workshops in Development for programming in Delivery.

Partnership working is about making use of and sharing best practices, networks, ways of doing,

Susan Palmer, Community Ranger 34 Sydney Gardens, Bath PP-16-00071 SD 2.1 Activity Plan 2018 and benefitting from others' research, successes and understanding gained from failure. Partnership working strengthens community and professional cohesion, benefitting participants and volunteers, and a park is a key site for civic association and we will prioritise this in Delivery, as evidenced by our Action Plan (Section 6).

A record of meetings by the Community Ranger and Heritage Intern - Refer: SD 2.15 Record of meetings with partners and organisations in Development Phase - evidences our dedication to growing collaborations, reaching our priority audiences, and creating an Activity Plan that meets need and interest, yet is adventurous and imaginative. Organisations we partnered with during the Development Phase on volunteering, events and activities:

Friends of Sydney Gardens Holburne Museum Canal & River Trust Bathscape Project Cleveland Pools Trust The Museum of Bath Stone Bath Natural History Society RSPB Avon Wildlife Trust IronArt Sally Strachey Historic Conservation Bath College University of Bath (for student project) Bathwick Primary School Kingswood School (Nursery) Bath Home Educators 5 x 5 x 5 Creativity (House of Imagination) Bath Area Play Project Julian House Homeless Hostel & DVA Services Age UK Bath Mindfulness Bath Kirsten Elliot, Akeman Press B&NES Parks and Green Spaces; Arboreal Team; Events; Arts and World Heritage; People and Communities; Libraries

4.4.1 Working with the Friends of Sydney Gardens

A major part of the Development Phase has been working closely with the Friends of Sydney Gardens. The reliable and dedicated Committee representing the Friends, and in particular their Secretary Gill Gazzard, have worked consistently with the Community Ranger and the Project Team throughout the process.

We have regularly visited the Friends Monthly Committee Meetings to discuss design plans,

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In order to focus on supporting their membership, as well as to address issues in relation to the park, we invited the Friends to send a list of 'Likes and Dislikes' to ensure problems were captured, ready to be addressed in our next round - refer to SD 2.16 FoSG Likes & Dislikes Letter.

We have partnered in trialing activities, collaborated on delivering a major event - the Community Day (which the Friends had wanted to run for a while) - and co-hosted volunteering and training:

 Training session in Event Management Planning and Application process, and running an event  Training in volunteer safeguarding practices, boundaries and policy needs  Training in Basic Pruning Skills  Tree Identification Walk and Talk  The Community Day in April 2018, drawing over 850 people to a lively day of eclectic activities in the park for all ages; double the audience we anticipated.

The Community Day, co-organised by the Community Ranger and The Friends, and also hosting the Public Exhibition of the latest Sydney Gardens Restoration Design Plans, was testimony to this very successful partnership working that will continue to grow and develop.

4.4.2 Working with The Holburne Museum

The project team, and in particular the Community Ranger have met with the Holburne Museum Director, the Education & Outreach Team and recently the Head of Development, on many occasions.

Our commitment to The Holburne as a key project partner ensures our Activity Plan enables collaborative partnership working on education visits from schools and young people, learning resources that connect the Holburne and the park together, excellent interpretation across the site, and crucially creating the conditions for more 'vulnerable audiences' to be engaged in meaningful and inspiring ways, through the outreach and learning strategies applied in the Holburne's thoughtfully delivered 'Pathways to Wellbeing' programme.

This key partnership has evolved over the Development Phase through a series of meetings with staff and programmers, and trial partnership activities including:

 A workshop for families and children from Julian House DVA Services  A partnership learning workshop for Bath Home Educators half in the Museum and half in the park  Co-hosted a public talk about the legacy of Slavery in relation to the architecture and design of Bath  Provided arts activities at the Community Day  Loaned the Gardener's Lodge for free for our Steering Group meetings and some Talks

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 Delivered training in volunteer safeguarding practices, boundaries and future policy needs to Friends of Sydney Gardens volunteers.

Refer: SD 2.3 Activities undertaken in Development Phase The Holburne is a highly regarded arts provider and institution in the city and an integral part of the geography and heritage of Sydney Gardens, as well as being renowned for their volunteer and mentoring programmes. It is clear that a strong partnership approach is vital as we go forward, in creating a secure platform for the continuation of our project's initiatives, as well as the fact that we practically sharing infrastructure such as parking, access and physical boundaries. The Development Phase ensured we have built the foundations.

4.4.3 Other strategic partnerships and working relationships developed

The neighbouring Residents Associations (Pulteney Estate, Bathwick Hill, Bathwick Estates and Sydney Buildings) are important and keen supporters of this restoration project, and have publicised and actively engaged residents in engaging with the design plans and activities.

The Canal and River Trust have become stronger partners through this phase, and we invited them to join our Steering Group, to discuss the design plans and ensure future opportunities are realised.

The Canal is a significant feature of the park, and much of the community and public engagement, as well as policies around use, health and well-being are important resources for our project. The Kennet and Avon Canal volunteers have undertaken significant work during the spring of 2018 on the Canal abutments in Sydney Gardens, and we have drawn up creative and practical ways of working together and collaborating on future events and volunteering opportunities.

The Community Ranger and Caroline Robson, development and engagement manager with the C&RT have worked closely over this year to develop partnership working opportunities for the Sydney Gardens Project Delivery Phase. One of the first activities programmed for 2019 is a 'Share the Space Soapbox' in Sydney Gardens - 6. Action Plan: PP1 Share the Space Soapbox - that will use the Canal & River Trust guidance around sharing paths and routes through public spaces, to discuss the different, sometimes conflicting, needs of through routers in the park.

Bathscape Landscape Partnership have also successfully partnered with us to trail events in Sydney Gardens, and we have worked closely to engage and draw new audiences:

 A Mindfulness Walk and Talk  Historic Tours of the Gardens  The launch event of the 2017 Bathscape Walking Festival

We have also established partnerships and trailed activities with selected education institutions and service providers – Julian House Homeless Hostel & DVA Services, Age UK Bath, Bathwick St Mary's Primary, to name a few – who are ready to participate in our three year programme.

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Other organisations we met or consulted with during the Development Phase:

Jane Austen Society Victoria Art Gallery The Roman Baths Bath Record Office Bath In Time Bath Preservation Trust Bath Society of Botanical Artists The Park Keepers (Model Railway of Sydney Gardens) Sweet Waters (a walking arts project) Somerset Archaeological and Natural History Society The National Trust (Glendurgan) World Heritage Site Enhancement Fund Bath Spa University University of the West of England Bath Volunteer Centre The Conservation Volunteers Bristol and Bath Waters of Bath Cycle Bath Illuminate Bath Waterspace Partnership (River Avon Park) Dementia Action Alliance (Bath) Stroke Association Peer Support Group Curo Age UK Bath daycentre The Carers Centre Nexus Toddlers Snowhill Youth club & Snowhill family support group and Toddlers group Riverside Youth Hub Widcombe Youth club and Transformed Bathwick Parent and Toddlers Wild Walcot Pulteney Estate Residents Association & Bathwick Residents Association Network Rail Wessex Water Healthmatic The Lawn Tennis Association Colvin Moggridge Landscape Architects Greenhalgh Landscape Architects Alice Park Café Macdonald Bath Spa Hotel SPRYTAR BLISPA Digital interpretation Splash and Ripple B&NES Environment; Planning and Conservation Team; Highways; GIS Team; Neighbourhood Environmental Services; Finance; Property Services

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4.5 Public Engagement

We have undertaken extensive public engagement during the Development Phase of this project, following on from the Round 1 work and contacts established, as summarised by sections 4.1 - 4.2.

The public have been engaged through:

 2 Public Consultation and Design Exhibitions  3 commissioned outreach and research projects  The project team's own outreach and research to voluntary organisations and community groups  17 open public participatory events and activities in the park  6 activities for target audiences  Press and magazine articles, and social media reach  Monthly posters in the park with updates about the park and progress reports  Volunteering and training sessions

We have paid attention to broadening and diversifying our audiences. During the Development Phase we wanted to find out:

 what are the barriers for young children, families and older people visiting the park?  what are some of the barriers for disabled people?  how can we diversify and broaden perceptions of heritage and its value?

So we commissioned reports, ran targeted events and activities, met individuals and support organisations, and commissioned and dementia access audit:

 342 local people participated in research commissioned to explore barriers and needs (older people, children and families)  Over 30% of participants (85 people) in our commissioned research into understanding barriers for young people and families knew about the park but had not visited, meaning we reached new audiences  Close to 50% of participants (50 people) in our commissioned research into understanding barriers for older people knew about the park but had not visited, meaning we reached new audiences  Held meetings with individuals caring for those with particular needs such Autism and the profoundly disabled, in relation to park design, infrastructure and activities (Refer: SD 2.6 Disability and Access Report)  Commissioned a 'dementia friendly audit' of the park to determine what opportunities there are for provision and activities, map a circular route, plan the appropriate entrances and exits, and look at gradients and park furniture. (Refer: SD 2.6 Disability and Access Report)  Set up and ran a 'hidden history' talk by historian Dr Olivette Otele on 'Bath, Slavery and Memoryscape' co-hosted with the Holburne. The talk was sold out, and after

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evaluating feedback collected at the event, we learnt that 10% of our audience had not heard of Sydney Gardens, and 34% had not attended a talk at the Holburne. This event very successfully demonstrated how we could build on broadening and diversifying the Sydney Gardens 'heritage audience' in Delivery through using this model and approach.

Refer: SD 2.5 Public Engagement Report & SD 2.7 Communications Report

4.5.1 Public Consultations about Design Plan and Activity Plan

We ran two open public consultations and design exhibitions: November-December 2017 and April-May 2018. Both consultations exhibited the design plans at events in the park, and in April, at Bath Library in the centre of the city. We have promoted them widely, through the Council portals, social media and our project e-newsletter.

36 feedback forms were submitted from our public consultation in 2017. Overall the feedback was supportive of the changes to the initial masterplan, such as removing the amphitheatre. However removal of three out of the five tennis courts received negative feedback with many park users questioning this choice.

This issue regarding the removal of the lower tennis courts had returned in the Development Phase. In the Consensus check with the public and stakeholders on the draft Master Plan Proposals in July 2016 as part of Round 1 from a total of 98 responses, 33% were firmly against the replacement of the lower tennis courts, with another 8% unsure: 'this proved to be the most contentious proposal and will need to be resolved at the next stage in the context of B&NES’ emerging strategies on tennis provision across the authority'.

We addressed the public feedback. The results of the 2017 public consultation surveys and comments directly changed and shaped the current design plans and activity programme over the Development Phase including:

- Two tennis courts reinstated into the design to provide a total of four courts - The café designed as a kiosk provision - Play equipment design responding to popularity with children and families (Bath Area Play Project outreach commission SD 2.12) - Provision for people with disabilities: Changing Places, Dementia Friendly design, Friendly Parks for All Audit. Refer to: SD 2.6 Disability & Access Report - Entrances and routes through were confirmed, following further consultation with B&NES Highways - New garden areas proposed - The design of the original Labyrinth integrated - Reviewed Entrance 14 - Cycling and shared use

Refer: SD 15.1 Sydney Gardens Masterplan

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Following a public Design Exhibition of the reworked Sydney Gardens Masterplan in response to the Winter 2017 consultation, a total of 98 feedback forms were submitted at the Community Day in the park on 22nd April 2018 and at the subsequent two week exhibition at Bath Central Library.

Overall the responses were very positive, with a majority of respondents agreeing with all 5 proposals that we asked about, and many positive comments. The most popular option was the provision of swings for all ages, with 87% respondents agreeing and only 3% disagreeing. The largest demographic of respondents was aged 40-60, female and lived in a BA2 postcode area. There were no responses from under 16s in this round of feedback, however this has been addressed by commissioning the Bath Area Play Project to consult directly with teenagers, children and families.

Both consultations invited comments and ideas about the Activity Plans. Popular provision included:

 Nature exploration, wildlife walks, botany, bugs and bug houses  Sports including tennis, boules, Petanque, fitness training, Tai Chi, Mindfulness Walks, Yoga  Music and exercise, seated exercise  Swings, slides, sandpits, felled tree trunks, climbing  Seating for the elderly, picnic benches  Exhibitions, Concerts, Drama, Art in the Park, Art Classes  Park heritage, Jane Austen's use of the park, events and cultural heritage  History of arboriculture, of the gardens, of landscape design  Talks, Walks,  Meetings in the park, giant garden games,  Illuminations, outdoor cinema  Gardening workshops, planting, horticulture, gardening classes  Play, family events, play days, nature trails.

These have been integrated into the Masterplan Design and the Activity Plan.

Refer: SD 15.1 Sydney Gardens Masterplan SD 2.8 Evidence from Public Consultations for the Activity Plan S3e.1 Public Consultation and Design Exhibition Report

4.5.2 How we communicated

The communications strategy for the Development Phase was developed by the Community Ranger, with support from the Heritage Intern.

Digital communications involved a monthly e-newsletter through the newsletter platform MailChimp, regular Facebook posts on a page created for Sydney Gardens, and Tweeting through the existing B&NES Parks & Events twitter, using #SydneyGardensBath to track our posts and engagement. We also created new pages on the B&NES Council Sydney Gardens park page with

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Physical communications were monthly project update posters in the park placed on the temporary wooden boards at every entrance. These monthly poster updates ensured park users and through routers had the opportunity to keep in touch with the project at every stage and could choose to be further involved or comment as contact details for the Community Ranger were always displayed.

Regularly updated leaflets were handed out at events and consultations, and , as well as posters advertising specific events e.g. creating wildflower borders or the Community Day.

All the local Residents Associations and the Friends of Sydney Gardens shared information about our consultations, events and participatory activities.

As part of event evaluation, participants were asked where they found out about events; all our digital and physical media sources were well used, and word of mouth/hearing from friends played a significant role, indicating our current methods of communication are successful in reaching new and existing audiences.

Refer: SD 2.7 Communications Report

4.5.3 How we grew and broadened participation: Postcode Data Map

An interactive map comparing the location of attendees from our events, consultations and outreach using postcodes collected from feedback forms, was commissioned from the Bath and North East Somerset Council GIS Team.

154 postcodes were collected from the Development Phase events & activities, the November 2017 consultation, April design exhibition and engagement research done by the Bath Area Play Project. In the case of the BAPP research into barriers to using the park by families and children, postcodes were based on the location of the community group/school/church/scout group being interviewed rather than the postcodes of individuals.

Several postcodes from Bristol and Swindon were excluded from the data set to make the map more readable concentrating on the Bath area, as this was our focus.

Plotting the data in this way allows us to look at the overall reach of the project and identify whether different consultations reached different (geographical) audiences.

For example we can compare respondents to our April Exhibition; those who visited at the Community Day event held in the park are purple while those who completed a feedback form while the exhibition was shown at Bath Central Library are shown in blue.

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Image 1: April Design Exhibition Consultation GIS mapping We can see that the respondents from the Community Day are concentrated around Sydney Gardens and Bathwick. The library display had a wider geographical base, demonstrating that the library was an effective place to access the wider Bath population.

It was also interesting to see how many respondents attending the Community Day were based along the Warminster Road, and obvious that the gardens are highly important in the immediate surroundings based

on the concentration of feedback from this area.

This postcode data mapping gives us a very useful understanding of our audience and geographic reach, particularly for those attending events (as shown by the scatter of yellow dots) demonstrating that people are willing to come more than walking distance to events in Sydney Gardens, despite issues around a lack of parking.

We will continue using this important and useful mode of data collection in relation to our audience through the Delivery Phase of our project.

Image 2: Collated postcode data from our activities and events

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4.6 Activities trialled in the Development Phase

Table 2: Details of the 24 activities, including training sessions that we ran from July 2017 until May 2018.

For a fuller chart of engagement, audience numbers, measures of success, communications and evaluation refer to: SD 2.2 Activity Plan Supporting Database (Sheet 5) Excel spreadsheet (digital) OR SD 2.3 Activities undertaken in Development Phase

No Activity Details of Date Aim of the activity Evidence / demand / Activity progress to Delivery 1 ENGAGEMENT Gazebo set up Sat July 15 2017 Publicise the Sydney Outreach to new audiences: with display Sydney Gardens Gardens Parks for from Bath & region Info stall and about PfP main walk People Project Increasing engagement costume at project + Round 10.30am until Engage new people Bath Carnival 1 LDA Design 2.30pm Sign up people to new with Flyers and mailing list Comms

2 NATURAL Drop in activity Sat August 19 Engage young people Evidence of demand met: HERITAGE lead by RSPB - 2017 in biodiversity in the nature based activity for Bug Hunting, Sydney Gardens park children and young people RSPB Wild species Lower Lawn popular with park users with Activity park identification regular interest and attendance session and other 11am - 3pm over period, with long period of activities engagement

Progress to Delivery 3 OUTDOOR Theatre Sat August 19 Park as a host for Evidence of demand: THEATRE performance 2017 outdoor performance, Park users often request drama outdoors in the Sydney Gardens concerts, theatre that and theatre performance in Three Inch gardens with Lower Lawn are independently parks. However, paying public Fools audience sustainable audience is relatively small (48) performed invited to picnic 6pm picnic, 7pm making high cost one-off Twelfth Night beforehand show and performances risky, unless the 9.30pm finish performer/s are well known and popular. 4 WALKS + Mindfulness Sat Sept 16th - To use the park as a Evidence of demand met highly: TOURS Walk led by 2017 site for wellbeing Very popular activities Mindfulness Sydney Gardens - To test out whether Mindfulness Walk very popular Walks and Bath this kind of activity is and worked well in the park Tours in park 2 x Historic 11am - 4.15pm popular in the park Demonstrable evidence of both in partnership tours of the - To introduce need and demand for these with gardens led by Public Launch of residents and visitors activities - good attendance and Bathscape Kirsten Elliott the Walking to the history of good feedback Walking Avon Wildlife Festival at 4pm Sydney Gardens, and Festival Trust Drop In inspire them to find Progress to Delivery activities for out more families.

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5 ART IN THE Artist-led event Saturday 14th To encourage children Evidence of demand met: PARK for children and October and and families to engage young people Sunday 15th artistically and Very high quality of provision House of Led by October imaginatively with the and engagement Imagination professional park and explore ways Welcoming and exciting use of pop-up in artists: Penny 10am - 5pm of looking, using the the park Sydney Hay (Director), each day theme of Cosmorama Appeals to audience familiar Gardens and artists with art, unless marketing or (Gardener's Free, drop in Children and families invitation extended further Lodge) Children and event. can explore a range of young people to media and processes Progress in Delivery through 5x5x5 make art Pre-organised partnerships Creativity's alongside event as part of To bring in new House of artists. Using Hot Springs art audiences to the park Imagination the gardens as a and design and increase pop-up in the stimulus Festival in Bath engagement park exploring the concepts of Cosmorama.

6 LEARNING Kingswood Friday 10th To research future Evidence of demand met highly: FOR Nursery School November learning resources for Excellent level of engagement, CHILDREN (14 x 3-4 year Sydney Gardens children and young learning and feedback olds) attending people for the park Learning artist-educator 9.30am - that connect with the Progress education and session in session with 10.30am curriculum, as well as learning for school groups Sydney Lucia Harley self-led visits Gardens 7 HERITAGE Volunteers and Sunday 19th Evidence of demand met: project team November To recreate the Excellent level of engagement, Recreating the recreating the Sydney Gardens Labyrinth in Sydney learning and practical task Labyrinth on historic on former Gardens in order to Everyone thought it a great the Bowls Labyrinth on the Bowls Club see how the design can idea, but fewer volunteers than Club Lawn in overgrown Lawn become part of the we hoped, but those who came Sydney Bowls Club future of the gardens, loved it! Gardens Lawn: marking 11.30am - and to invite people of and measuring 2.30pm all ages to respond to Progress through to Delivery out the this historic feature. Labyrinth for mowing 8 CONSULT Project team Saturday 25th Engage public, Outreach and park user and LDA November residents and park engagement First Public Architects Gardeners users in updated Consultation Lodge, Sydney design plans, and get on updated Gardens responses to key Masterplan 11.30am - questions in relation to 4.30pm café, historic toilets, depot relocation. 9 LEARNING Bathwick Thursday 30th To research future Evidence of demand met highly: FOR SCHOOLS Primary School November learning resources for Excellent level of engagement, (Year 4 class 8-9 Sydney Gardens children and young learning and feedback Learning yr olds) people for the park session in attending 9.30am - that connect with the Progress education and Sydney session led by 11.30am curriculum, as well as learning for school groups Gardens artist-educator for self-led visits Lucia Harley

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10 SELF LED Education Thursday 1st To engage Bath Home Evidence of demand met highly: LEARNING session: February Educators to see how Excellent level of engagement, Bath Home Sydney Gardens the project can provide learning and feedback Learning and Educators & Holburne future learning educational attending artist- Museum resources Progress education and research educator Run a partnership learning for school groups session in 10.00am - 12 learning session with Progress partnership delivery Sydney Gardens noon Holburne Museum with Holburne and The (one hour in park, one Holburne hour in museum) to Museum research future provision 11 GARDENING & Creating a Sunday 11th To introduce and teach Evidence of demand met highly: TRAINING Wildflower February practice of creating Good engagement and display Sunday 8th April wildflower display. attendance and popular Volunteer Part 1 + Part 2 Sydney Gardens activity, with April session being Training Aim: increase number most gardening volunteers at a session for Change the of volunteers from single session (18) FoSG + front beds (at 10am - 12 noon FoSG and bring in new volunteers in Sydney Place) volunteers: total group Progress horticultural learning Horticultural from biannual of 10 with up to 5 new connected to an activity Skills bedding to volunteers annual 'Pictorial Meadows' type wildflowers. 12 TRAINING Running and Thursday 15th Training session in Evidence of demand met: managing February running volunteer Essential training for running Staff & events with events and activities: events Volunteer BATHNES 1 x hour policies, council Training Council Events procedure, managing Progress training for other session Team events and activities volunteers safely 13 DIVERSITY & Bath, Slavery Thursday 8th To broaden Evidence of demand met highly: HERITAGE and March understanding of Sold out. Very popular event, Memoryscape heritage despite some feelings it Heritage Talk 7pm - 8pm Attract new audiences wouldn't attract audience. (in Talk by Dr to Sydney Gardens Excellent feedback. partnership Olivette Otele Increase knowledge of 10% of audience new to SG with Holburne At the Picture built and social history 34% audience never been to Museum) Gallery, of Sydney Gardens and talk at Holburne Holburne context of Bath Museum To understand future Progress more programming of provision / learning: talks that broaden and heritage, diversity and diversify heritage. inclusivity 14 CHILDREN & Play sessions in Aim to engage at least Evidence of demand met highly: FAMILIES the park Saturday 17th 30 children and Excellent level of engagement, following March families who are not learning and feedback Play sessions: outreach to new Thursday 5th regularly using the research and audiences in April park or new to the BAPP ran excellent session and outreach to Bathwick, park in the research. targets exceeded. new Walcott, Sydney Gardens neighbouring Snowhill and in the former Find out what the Progress outreach and run play communities Widcombe and Bowls Club and barriers are to visiting sessions Dolemeads Bowls Club the park, anything they areas Lawn would like to change,

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and to ask about 10.30am to 12 choices for the new noon play area design.

Engage people local to the park (15 minute walk) about the restoration project. 15 TRAINING Running and Monday 16th Training session in Evidence of demand met: managing April running volunteer Very useful and thought Staff & volunteers, 9.30am - events and activities: provoking training Volunteer policies and 11.30am policies, safeguarding, Training safeguarding Royal Victoria managing volunteer Progress further safeguarding session Park Nursery activities safely and volunteer training Meeting Room 16 NATURAL Nature learning Saturday 21st Explore and learn Evidence of demand: HERITAGE and observation April about nature in park, Low turn out despite wide walk and talk Sydney Gardens particularly under publicity. Park users say they Neighbourhoo recognised e.g. lichen, want more nature related walks d Nature 2pm - 4pm fungi, habitat and talks but the 'frame' of this Watch Research future event didn't seem to attract in activities that will ways that others did. benefit people and nature and increase Progress content but biodiversity programme differently 17 MENTAL & Tai Chi in the Drop in: Aim: promote new Evidence of demand met highly: PHYSICAL park (drop-in Sunday 22nd physical activity and Good attendance for drop in WELLBEING taster session) April engagement with excellent feedback 12 noon - 1pm Trial physical (Community To see if Tai Chi Progress to activity programme and / or Day) outdoors in the park mental well being session One hour in the park session

18 EVENT Sunday 22nd Attract and engage Evidence of demand met highly: COMMUNITY Stalls: Bath April 2-5pm residents, public, double audience expected DAY Bees, Canal & visitors, across age, to (850+) RT, Kennet & Sydney Gardens participate in activities, Friends of Avon Canal, (through whole play, learning, and the Very popular event, far Sydney Cleveland Pools, park) public consultation exceeded expectation Gardens RSPB, National Stone Carving Community Trust, Friends of demo Sally Trial unusual live Progress same / similar model Day the Holburne Strachey in performance for annual / biennial event, (on World Museum, Fire Loggia celebrating history and Heritage Day) Engine, St Johns Park Bench literature Ambulance Reader - Bram Masterplan Arnold (live Work and partner Park Design Bath Area Play readings of Jane directly with FoSG on a Exhibition (in Project Play Austen novels) public event Bowls Club) Session Arts activities in Avon Wildlife the Gardeners Trust Lodge (Holburne Museum)

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19 BUILT Presentation Thursday 26th Introduce importance, Evidence of demand met highly HERITAGE and tour about April relevance and process Very good learning event, very stone Gardeners of architecture, stone popular, especially when we Heritage Talk conservation Lodge, Sydney conservation and went out into the park after the and Tour and built Gardens restoration process talk in GL heritage with (Sydney Gardens built Sally Strachey, 6.30pm - heritage) Progress practical learning joined by Paul 7.15pm Maggs (Bath College) and Andy Thearle (IronArt Bath)

20 TRAINING Basic skills of Saturday 28th Train volunteers in Evidence of demand met: pruning: what April horticultural skills to Good engagement and Volunteer to prune, when Sydney Gardens increase knowledge to attendance and popular activity Training and how support horticultural session for 10am - 12 noon volunteering in the Progress horticultural learning FoSG in gardens connected to an activity Horticultural Skills To test out need for training 21 NATURAL Tree Walk and Learn about trees in Evidence of demand met highly HERITAGE Talk around Wednesday 9th Sydney Gardens and Excellent learning event, very LEARNING significant, May their significance popular. Fully booked. ancient and Engage participants in Tree heritage champion trees future tree trail and Probably most popular and Walk and Talk in the park 6pm - 7.15pm opportunities for trees most effective learning activity Tree and people learning. identification Aim for 15 people to Progress tree related learning attend inc 3 from FoSG 22 NATURAL Early Birds Walk Sunday May Research bird activity Evidence of demand met highly HERITAGE and Talk 13th in the park Excellent learning event, very LEARNING Sydney Gardens popular with request for more Led by Bath Identify birds (learn to learning about birds Birds in Nats and RSPB identify min of 3 new Sydney Volunteer Lucy birds through song) Gardens Delve Progress to extended learning Understand how the around birds park can increase habitat for birds 23 OUTREACH To trial a session for Evidence of demand met highly: PRIORITY Arts and Crafts Thurs 31st May clients of JH to see strong level of engagement, AUDIENCE (partner with what kinds of activities very positive feedback to both Holburne useful, practical, what space and activity. Future Creative Museum Edu + is of interest re park programme mapped with JH session with Outreach Team) facility and how to Caseworker families of structure future Julian House programme Progress to Delivery DVA Services 24 LEARNING Talk for Age UK Engage older residents Evidence of demand met: Bath Culture Thurs 31st May of Bath with heritage Good attendance, lots of Heritage Talk Club by Hannah St Johns of Sydney Gardens esp interest, popular. Taking for older Myall, Heritage Foundation social history of heritage out to people is very people Intern 2-3pm entertainment. Ask re important. Progress outreach: future oral history. take the park out!

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4.7 Evidence and outcomes from trialled activities

We wanted to:

 know more about what activities would engage our audiences  how activities would work practically in the park re access, parking, meeting points etc.  test out ideas and formats  see what was popular and of interest  understand the heritage that audiences want to know more about  understand more about our audiences  test out partnerships in organising and running activities  test out training and volunteering combined sessions - 'learn and do'  test out our budgets re fees, commissions and costs  try out different methods of evaluation  determine future programming based on evidence not supposition  run sessions for priority audiences to ask about need and interest for future programming

Each trialled activity was structured to meet an element that we needed to know more about. For example, we wanted to know if audiences would engage in horticultural training and heritage learning events, and the best way to structure future sessions based on evaluation and feedback collected at those trial activities.

The evidence listed in the last column of Table 2 above briefly shorthands the outcomes and our learning for Delivery, but every activity was properly evaluated using either feedback forms at the end of the session, online surveys or conversational feedback. Every activity had pre-determined targets and measures of success, both qualitative and quantitative, and various methods of evaluation were trialled too. For example, we learnt that feedback forms at the end of a session have a 300% higher completion record than a survey circulated through the Eventbrite online reservation platform!

Our process and learning, numbers of participants, partners involved, and what worked and what didn't is fully evidenced in our Appendices:

SD 2.3 Activities undertaken in Development Phase (edited) SD 2.2 Activity Plan Supporting Database (Sheet 5) Activities undertaken in Development Phase Note: full evidence on digital version only due to width of spreadsheet.

What did we find out from these trial events and activities?

 There is great interest from audiences in both the built and natural heritage of Sydney Gardens  Tours and Talks are very popular

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 Social, cultural, landscape design all of interest  Desire and interest for more 'Hidden history' talks and diversifying of heritage narratives  Interest in Stone Conversation and Iron Work from public and students  Trees (history, identification and management) are of the most interest to audiences  Biodiversity (especially birds) is of interest to audiences, and gaining practical knowledge to identify species, learn about them and increase habitats  Play days, games and natural play in the park  Combining volunteer gardening with training engages more people across age  Excellent opportunities for learning in the park to connect with the national curriculum themes and topics: transport (boats and trains), Georgians, sound, history, science, geography, maps, trees, plants, biology, outdoor learning, maths, art.  Diversity of treasures and interests for self-led learners, particularly joining the Holburne Museum and the Gardens together  Natural play is very popular with self-led experiences important to children and families  There are always people who just turn up to activities without reserving, and always no shows  The combination of all publicity channels across physical and social media worked in drawing audiences  Partnerships with the Holburne worked well, with high quality provision, brought new and different audiences and improved interpretation of the heritage of Sydney Gardens  Partnership with the Friends of Sydney Gardens on a large public event was achievable and managed very well by the Friends  Some activities took a lot more organising and preparation than others, especially school visits, where arrangements have to be precise, detailed with full preparation  Event management on the B&NES Council system was initially quite arduous and time consuming, but a smoother system was soon established meaning that Risk Assessments, event management plans and safety plans were easy to manage. This system needs to continue through Delivery.  Trail sessions with priority / target audiences essential to test out interest, ask questions and work with managers and caseworkers on best structures and practicalities  Activity leaders need to be supported by a co-leader assisting with participants and practicalities  The Bowls Club provided a very useful refuge for some activities, for materials, toilets, refreshments and a working base. It was particularly important for school visits where the children need access to a toilet (not the public toilets in the park).  Taking the park out to other communities, for example through the talk to Age UK Bath Culture Club produced unexpected interest, enthusiasm and support.

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4.8 Commissioned research and outreach in relation to priority audiences

In order to find out more about our target or priority audiences, and in particular information about barriers or needs that would inform the Design Plan and the Activity Plan, three pieces of research were commissioned in the Development Phase.

Given the small scale of the commissions, none were put to tender, but records of the process of procurement have been kept (available on request). Researchers were primarily assessed on being professionally skilled and experienced in consultation and outreach and usefully connected to the target audiences. The Community Ranger worked closely with researchers in determining the focus, process and reporting outcomes. For an example of a commissioning brief refer to: SD 2.20 Example of Commissioning Brief for outreach and research

4.8.1 Report: Barriers to participation for children and families SD 2.12

We commissioned Bath Area Play Project to undertake public consultation in the spring of 2018 to engage with children and families and groups that are not using Sydney Gardens, to introduce the restoration project, and to understand any barriers to visiting the park for children and families within a 10-15 minute walk of the park.

BAPP organised 2 events, 2 public forums, visited 2 schools and visited various groups including Nexus Toddlers, Snowhill Youth Club, Riverside Youth Club, and Bathwick Parent and Toddlers. BAPP distributed 1000 fliers to Widcombe, Dolemeads and Bathwick areas.

Through running two play sessions in Sydney Gardens, Bath Area Play Project was able to consult and talk with over 35 adults and 68 children.

272 people across age engaged in the online survey and consultation, identifying barriers and reasons for not visiting Sydney Gardens and what would draw them to the park in future. 31% of these people were non users of the park.

The restoration plan for Sydney Gardens was very well received across the board.  Lack of parking is the largest barrier  The most popular reason for visiting in the future would be better play equipment  Play days, after school play sessions were popular  An affordable café and more seating also important reasons to visit  The Labyrinth recreation was very popular  An allocated space with equipment for teenagers, with shelter and lighting, public Wi-Fi requested  A programme of events, and recognition of history and heritage is of interest  Respondents consistently chose natural play - felled trees over Spinning Tables!

Bath Area Play Project's outreach and report has proved exceptionally valuable research, providing ideas and solutions to issues, recommendations and costings for future play programmes, as well as a contact list for organisations and groups to engage with for Delivery.

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4.8.2 Report: Barriers to participation for older people SD 2.13

Michelle Tarrant, a freelance researcher and part time employee of Age UK Bath was commissioned to undertake research into barriers to participation for older people in visiting the park, though meeting with individuals, selected care homes and facilitators of groups supporting older people, including the Stroke Association Peer Support Group.

This consultation reached 40 people over the age of 55, and 6 facilitators of older people’s groups in Bath. Nearly 50% of the participants and facilitators engaging in the consultation did not visit Sydney Gardens for a number of reasons, and many of the participants had restricted mobility. This consultation evidenced the need for:  Safe, sociable and accessible space  Group physical activities, seated exercise, Tai Chi, Mindfulness  Talks about heritage and history  Much enthusiasm for gardening and workshops and talks about gardening, including for a community allotment, and Sensory Garden  The new Cafe Kiosk with improved seating, social seating and seating for bad weather  Talking and social space and meet ups

Common concerns:  Wheelchair accessibility and uneven, narrow paths  Lack of lighting  Not being able to participate because of restricted mobility  Seating was the most commonly raised concern - the right kind in the right places, with higher level seating with arms which makes standing easier  Lack of parking is a significant barrier to many older people.

These important research findings will feed into more detailed decisions in Delivery around park furniture, paths and routes, surfacing, spacing and design of park benches, accessibility, public transport route information. These research findings have shaped the specific participatory activities in the Action Plan (6) tailored for older people.

4.8.3 Report: Education & Learning Resourcing SD 2.11

Lucia Harley, a freelance artist educator was commissioned to develop opportunities for learning for schools and self-led visits to Sydney Gardens. Lucia is part of the artist pool working at the Holburne Museum so could also draw responsive research together in relation to both practical and thematic connections with the Holburne for future partnership working.

We invited three different groups of children with accompanying staff and parents into the park for a free learning activity in order to engage participants in what the learning opportunities are in the park, and how they could connect to the curriculum:

 Kingswood Nursery School (14 3-4 year olds) visiting in a minibus  Bathwick St Mary’s Primary School (a full class of 31 8-9 year olds with staff and parents)

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 Bath Home Educators (5 parents and 6 children of 8-11 years) for a split session between the park (1 hr) and the museum with the Holburne Education and Outreach Team (1 hr).

Three very successful sessions were run drawing on the heritage of the park:  The historic Labyrinth and designing mazes  Tree Trail around the ancient and champion trees with the Giant Sequoia and Peace Oak  Sound Surveys and Sound Maps  Drawing nature inspired designs from ceramics in the Holburne collection onto plates  Exploration around the park using magnifiers and binoculars  Canal and railway and watching the trains  Creating water flows and collecting natural materials and making art work

We evaluated at the end of the sessions with the young people and children through group discussion, to find out what they had enjoyed and found most interesting, as well as subsequent feedback forms sent to staff at the schools. From this evidence, we have selected learning topics to go forward to Delivery.

Table 3. 'Labyrinth Challenge' designed by artist educator Lucia Harley (with graphic designer) creating an example of a PDF printable download learning resource for school group or self- led visit for Sydney Gardens.

Creating learning resources of this nature will be taken forward to Delivery.

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4.8.4 Report: Illuminations Launch Event in Sydney Gardens SD 2.14

The fourth and final piece of commissioned research was undertaken by Dr Anthony Head, Professor of Digital Media at Bath Spa University and Director of Illuminate Bath.

We wanted to know how we might create an Illumination launch event to re-open Sydney Gardens following the restoration project in 2021. The frame of 'illuminations' seemed to be the most appropriate vehicle given the history and heritage of entertainments in the Gardens. Light and light forms also provide a connective thematic platform for many different groups and park users to be involved in, helping to design and create new illuminations for an event.

This research report brought together the historic heritage about Illuminations in Sydney Gardens, and planned two different scales of Illuminations launch events, with costings (6k and 20k), including clear pathways for raising further funding, engaging with Bath Spa University Digital Design and Performance Studies Courses and students, and opportunities to engage different communities of interest across age, in creating illuminations for the park.

4.9 Audiences - identified audiences and target / priority audiences

We have continued to work with, and develop, the audiences identified in Round 1. Here, we detail how we engaged with each audience strand, how they value Sydney Gardens and its heritage and how they value the activities we offer.

4.9.1 Local children and their families:

We worked with children and families from Bathwick, Widcombe, Snowhill and Dolemeads, though the Bath Area Play Project outreach and play session, 31% new to Sydney Gardens. The research demonstrated that both families new to the park and existing young park users, will benefit from a developed and extended all age play area and play activities, and that they value what the restoration project will bring.

We worked with a small group of Bath Home Educators, a new audience, who gave very good feedback about our learning session (refer to: SD 2.2 Activity Plan Supporting Database (Sheet 5) Activities undertaken in Development Phase (digital version) demonstrating there is a strong need for self-led learning that could reach a wider and more diverse audience, including Canal and Narrow Boat dwellers, and draw in Home Educators from across Bath and North East Somerset to use the park.

We worked with a class from Bathwick Primary School (8-9 year olds), most of who live and play in the neighbourhood, from a school with no green space, evidencing the direct benefit a rejuvenated park would play in their lives, as well as learning resources that relate directly to their curriculum.

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4.9.2 Teenagers and young adults

Through the Bath Area Play Project outreach, teenagers and young adults were engaged in research about the Sydney Gardens Masterplan, play equipment and activities on offer.

This is an important audience for the park, and perhaps the hardest to engage with. Early in our Development Phase, very sadly, an older teenager took his life on the railway line through Sydney Gardens, a student from Bath Studio. This had a very strong impact on park users and particularly his friendship group. It also highlighted the need to look at the relationship between mental health and young people. The Holburne Museum Education and Outreach team have been researching how creative activities to support young people who struggle with mental health issues, can be programmed as part of the next Pathways to Wellbeing project, from 2019 onwards (subject to funding being secured). The Holburne have established initial partnerships with young peoples’ support groups, and we have allocated days of the Community Ranger's time to support this activity programme as part of the Sydney Gardens project.

Music activity, drawing on the entertainment and social heritage of the Pleasure Gardens, was established in the Development Phase as a positive engaging platform for teenagers and young adults, with the opportunity to engage the significant student population (both College and University) who use and relate to the park, as identified in Round 1 research. We will develop a 'Garden Bandstand' programme for live music (duets, quartets) during the summer months, with an accompanying outreach programme, led by an artist engaging with this audience.

Through the Development Phase, we have established links with Bath College Stone Conservation Course, through our Stone Conservation and IronWork Walk and Talk event in 2018, and also with the Digital and Performance Arts courses and Heritage Courses at Bath Spa University. These connections will be progressed in Delivery to engage students in the restoration project.

4.9.3 Over 65s

135 people aged 65 and over participated in the trial activities in the Development Phase, in horticultural training sessions, in volunteer gardening, in our walks and talks and historic tours, with a significant number attending our 'Hidden History' event, demonstrating that our programming was valuable and significant to this age group. We can use this evidence to build further activities of interest and use to this age group.

Our commissioned outreach research (Refer SD 2.13 Report: Barriers to participation for older people) detailed the barriers and needs for older people, especially for non-users of the park, and the needs of those with restricted mobility. As detailed in point 4.8.2 above, we have evidence that this age group would gain huge benefit from our restoration project - from the new facilities, including the Changing Places toilet, new park furniture, Cafe Kiosk, Petanque, resurfaced and wider paths, a Dementia Friendly park, with a marked circular walk. We also know that they support the activities and engagement we have planned including social meet ups, led gardening sessions and horticultural training, Day Care centre trips, group physical exercise and the heritage trails, talks and tours.

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This age group also have a unique and valuable contribution to make to the living oral history collection about Sydney Gardens, and also as grandparents to the children and young people who are park users. There are important opportunities to seize, such as those presented by the 100th Anniversary of the Peace Oak being planted in Sydney Gardens marking Peace Day in Bath (PG 4 in the Action Plan) in July 2019 - an intergenerational event rededicating the memorial with a new stone, and accompanying educational workshops in a local school.

4.9.4 Vulnerable people (Homeless, Victims of abuse)

In the Development Phase we have looked at the issue of Homelessness in relation to the park:  met with a Julian House Hostel Manager to discuss potential activities  researched the 'Change Please' coffee cart programme  talked with the Holburne about their current Pathways to Wellbeing Programme which has programmed and run activities for homeless people at the Gardeners Lodge and at the Julian House Hostel and Cafe in Bath, and visited one of the creative workshop sessions

Homelessness, and sometimes the associated issues of substance abuse of drugs and alcohol, present a very complicated picture. The homeless community use Sydney Gardens to rough sleep. We have talked with some of the homeless people using the park - there are issues around mental health and wellbeing, and substance abuse. The current policy is to register a homeless person with StreetLink, who then send a support worker to connect.

As a result of this research and time invested trying to develop initiatives, we have come to the conclusion that to run a programme of activities for this group is not the right direction. We have seen how the current Holburne creative outreach has struggled to gain traction, even with a formerly homeless person as the creative connector.

However, homelessness is a very important element to address in our project; it affects the park and park users on a regular basis. So we have designed a series of meetings in our Activity Plan for Delivery (PP4 in our Action Plan) between interested organisations - Julian House, Holburne, B&NES Parks Service, Friends of Sydney Gardens - to create a 'Code of Conduct' in relation to homelessness in Sydney Gardens, and relating to other neighbouring parks and public spaces: how can we make progress with supporting this community to gain access to the essential services they need on a practical basis, a prerequisite to future participation in activities in the park.

We established contact with the manager of Julian House DVA Services early in 2018. Following discussion, we agreed that a free to access activity programme could be of great benefit to adults, children and families who use this service, as 'victims of abuse'. Following a tour around Sydney Gardens with the Community Ranger, we established that a secure meeting place, with built in toilet and catering facility is essential for this group.

We partnered with the Holburne to run a trial activity in May 2018 in the Gardener's Lodge in Sydney Gardens - a creative activity for families and children inspired by art and nature. We

Susan Palmer, Community Ranger 56 Sydney Gardens, Bath PP-16-00071 SD 2.1 Activity Plan 2018 successfully held this workshop with 6 participants of women and children, supported by a DVA Service Caseworker.

After the activity, we talked with the Julian House clients about the kinds of activities that would be of benefit to them, including asking the children about their interests. We also met with the Caseworker to map out a structure for how a series of workshops and activities would meet interests, be of maximum benefit to clients and be practically workable, given the everyday stresses and pressures on the DVA Services.

We are very committed as a project team to this priority audience, and have designed a programme of activity for children and adults for Delivery following this direct consultation and trial activity.

4.9.5 People in poor health (physical and mental health)

Our commissioned outreach research (Refer SD 2.13 Report: Barriers to participation for older people) detailed the barriers to accessing the park, and the needs for those with restricted mobility.

This audience group covers people of all ages and abilities. The park design will be DDA compliant providing a hugely improved accessible park for those who have additional needs in visiting and using green space.

We know from research and engagement through Development, that many of the activities we have designed for Delivery will engage this audience in valuable and beneficial ways:

 Tai Chi in the Park  Mindfulness sessions  physical group exercise  measured mile posts  nature walks  historic tours and heritage walks and talks  music and concerts  community participatory events  become part of the Sydney Gardening Club and many opportunities to volunteer

An events programme, with Community Days, Art and Nature Festivals, social meet ups, music and arts, inspires people to visit and meet, to volunteer and brings social cohesion, reduces isolation and makes stronger communities. The 'People and The Park' section in the Action Plan (6) details numerous activities that will be of benefit.

Through Development we have established connections and communication with a range of organisations and voluntary groups who support people in poor health (Refer SD 2.5 Public Engagement Report), and we will build these partnerships for Delivery to ensure audiences know

Susan Palmer, Community Ranger 57 Sydney Gardens, Bath PP-16-00071 SD 2.1 Activity Plan 2018 about the activities and facilities available to them in Sydney Gardens, and importantly, are enabled to come to the park.

We know that people in poor health are harder to reach and are often socially isolated, so we will need to work closely with organisations such as Age UK Bath, St John’s Foundation, Dementia Action Alliance, the Alzheimer’s Society and the Stroke Association Peer Support Group, who are in outreach contact with individuals to ensure communication of activities, and practical access needs are met, for example, parking a visiting minibus, public transport routes and timetables, meeting and welcoming as well as accessible and supportive volunteering activities.

4.9.6 Day visitors and tourists

We have seen how Sydney Gardens is visited by a range of people interested to see the Canal, the trains and walk around this green space behind the Holburne Museum. They may have a sense of the past here, but we know that the lack of interpretation and the neglect of the distinctive heritage and historic buildings, means that this unique Georgian Pleasure Garden is not 'on the map', and from accounts of Bath Tour Guides, that day visitors and tourists are not coming to Sydney Gardens from the centre of Bath, because they don't know what's there.

Restoring Sydney Gardens will also benefit the Holburne Museum, as the combined draw will pull visitors along Pulteney Street with the combination of a visual art and museum offer, a vibrant play area for children, a choice of refreshment facilities, heritage to explore in the park, and trains and boats.

The restoration of the built and natural heritage meeting the HLF outcomes for this project, will draw day visitors and tourists: new interpretation and trail guides, a seated statue of a reading Jane Austen, historic tours, stone conservation and archaeology events, restored buildings and new and rejuvenated gardens.

Evidence from our consultations and online surveys alongside statistical evidence on tourism, demonstrates that Sydney Gardens is of great heritage value and historic significance to both residents and visitors, and will be a draw for tourists visiting Bath from around the world.

4.9.7 Learners

Trial sessions with schools, nurseries and home educators, have generated multiple connections to learning in Sydney Gardens: we have practically explored curriculum related themes through led learning sessions in the park with schools, and designed examples of future downloadable learning resources.

The Gardens are not currently being used as part of the formal learning of the local primary schools, such as Bathwick or Widcombe, or the local nursery schools and our trial sessions with young learners and education institutions evidenced the powerful resource that Sydney Gardens

Susan Palmer, Community Ranger 58 Sydney Gardens, Bath PP-16-00071 SD 2.1 Activity Plan 2018 provides with its eclectic environments, modes of visible transport, natural heritage and historic features.

The park provides an extraordinary field study location and resource for students studying architecture, landscape heritage, engineering and heritage management and our project will promote the site and our learning resources to them.

Historic Walks and Talks, including Hidden History Talks have all proved popular, with our trial events either booking out, or nearing capacity:

 the Tree Walk - 16 out of 15 places taken  the Hidden History Talk sold out at 90 places  Early Bird Walk and Talk had 10 participants out of 12 places

This evidences the appetite and need for learning, and that our trial activities were popular and well received.

4.9.8 Through routers

We will encourage those passing through to stay longer and learn more about the unique heritage of the space.

With its many entrances and routes, along with a new access that will open as part of the restoration on the north side of the park off Beckford Road, and just below the bus stops (SD 15.1 Sydney Gardens Masterplan point 15), and an improved accessible ramp coming off the canal entrance into the gardens (point 17), new signage and interpretation at the entrances, a new play areas and ‘ponies on the ride’ the park will enable much easier passage into green space and between connective routes joining to the Canal, and to the city.

Sabrina – the Goddess of the River Severn sits on the Western route out of the canal and Father Thames sits on the Eastern route. These beautiful but overlooked figureheads over the Canal bridges will be linked to other interpretative signifiers for through routers to be inspired to stop and learn about the heritage of the Sydney Gardens.

With renewed planting and rejuvenated buildings and resources, an affordable Cafe Kiosk, playful interpretation inviting curiosity, through routers will be invited to pause.

4.10 Accessibility and Inclusivity

Over the Development Phase, we investigated specific disability and access barriers and needs. LDA Design is making the park design DDA compliant throughout and we are following the Design Council Guidelines for inclusivity.

Susan Palmer, Community Ranger 5 9 Sydney Gardens, Bath PP-16-00071 SD 2.1 Activity Plan 2018

Our priority over the Development Phase was to undertake on site research and meet with representatives and residents in person in the park, to look at infrastructure, design elements, routes, needs, barriers and future activities that will meet a diversity of disability and access needs to take forward to Delivery.

In winter 2017, a member of the public asked to meet with us as part of the public consultation into the design plans for Sydney Gardens, in relation to the needs and barriers to visiting the park for her severely Autistic son. The points from this tour and meeting are detailed SD 2.6 Disability & Access Report section 3. They also encouraged us to research putting in a Changing Places toilet, and over the Development Phase, we have built one into our plans as part of the new Cafe-Kiosk in the play area.

4.10.1 Making Sydney Gardens the first Dementia Friendly Park in Bath

One of the proposals from research in Round 1 is to make Sydney Gardens Bath's first Dementia Friendly Parks.

Early on in the Development Phase, conversations began with Frances Bennett, from Richmond Borough Council in South West London and Director of Let’s Go Outside and Learn, an outdoor environmental education provider, as a result of Frances’ development of a strategy called Friendly Parks for All for Richmond Borough green spaces. This research and strategy is designed to meet the needs of a diversity of people, including those with dementia, with autism as well as visual impairment in park and open space design. Of course, one design cannot meet every specific access need, but Frances’ research and work in this area seems to be unique in England currently, and has been trialed and installed very successfully in parks in Richmond Borough, London.

Frances was able to come and visit the park in early August 2018 and undertake an initial audit in relation to making the park Dementia Friendly in our Delivery Phase. Meeting with the Community Ranger and another B&NES Parks Manager, Frances made an initial map of a potential dementia friendly circular route around Sydney Gardens and examined barriers to visiting the park. For the audit report please refer to: SD 2.6 Disability & Access Report section 4.2.

During the Development Phase, we also met with the Chair of Bath Dementia Access Alliance Sarah Williams in Sydney Gardens, to tour the park and discuss access needs and designs to suit those with dementia. For notes from this site visit, refer to: SD 2.6 Disability & Access Report section 4.1.

4.11 Volunteering

During the Development Phase we grew the volunteer engagement in Sydney Gardens. The Friends of Sydney Gardens run monthly gardening sessions on the second Sunday of the month, weekly Litter Picks in the park. The Friends also offer tours to residents of the Bath Spa Hotel in return for the use of a meeting room once a month for their Committee Meetings.

Susan Palmer, Community Ranger 60 Sydney Gardens, Bath PP-16-00071 SD 2.1 Activity Plan 2018

Through consultation with the Friends and exploring the opportunities to test volunteer engagement, we trialled a model of 'learn and do' volunteering sessions in relation to horticulture, programming two sessions creating two new Wildflower borders in Sydney Gardens. These sessions began with a learning session about how to plan, select and sow a wildflower border, and then practical tasks to prepare the ground and sow.

New volunteers were attracted to these sessions and we had 18 participants in the second sowing session, more than double the usual number of participants at the Friends Volunteer Gardening sessions, plus families who were passing the activity stopped to join in for half an hour, their children drawn by our convivial activity. This model of 'learn and do' attracted more people, across age, and enabled a greater feeling of satisfaction from participants from conversational feedback with volunteers - refer to: SD 2.2 Activity Plan Supporting Database (Sheet 5) Activities undertaken in Development Phase (digital version).

From this model, we have grown the proposal of the Sydney Gardening Club, supported by the Horticulture Participation Officer running regular sessions which combine horticultural learning with doing, using the park as a practical learning resource, as well as enabling people to undertake physical activity. This has proved a popular idea in consultation, especially if open to people of mixed ages and abilities, with some sessions programmed for those with additional needs.

The Committee of the Friends of Sydney Gardens have invested a lot of time to the Sydney Gardens Project through Development, particularly through planning, organising and delivering the Community Day, and through communications and engagement. Gill Gazzard, the secretary, organised the Committee Members to specific roles for the Community Day event, ensuring its successful delivery, and organised all the attending stalls including Bath Bees, Cleveland Pools, Canal & River Trust and a visit from Bath Fire Brigade and a First Aid participatory demonstration by St John's Ambulance. Our project team partnered with the Friends in organising the Community Day (coinciding with World Heritage Day) bringing a BAPP play session, arts performance (bibliotherapy with Jane Austen) and a Stone Conservation demonstration by Sally Strachey Associates.

The Friends have demonstrated through the Development Phase that they are fully supportive of the project and willing to invest time and energy to support activities, co-organise public events across scale, and to assist with programming. Gill Gazzard has also participated in meetings with partners such as the Jane Austen Bath and Bristol Chair, in discussions about a statue of Jane Austen in the park. The Friends also circulated and publicised information about consultations and activities through their hand-delivered printed newsletter (on average to 300 houses and flats in the neighbouring vicinity of the park) as well as social media engagement.

Canal & River Trust volunteers have also been working in Sydney Gardens on the canal abutments, improving them in relation to stone conservation as well as views through to the park and along the canal. We have recently worked together to plan the long term management of these waterside spaces to increase and enhance the biodiversity of the water corridor through the park, especially given the bat roost in the Temple of Minerva.

Susan Palmer, Community Ranger 61 Sydney Gardens, Bath PP-16-00071 SD 2.1 Activity Plan 2018

Our Development Phase trial activities also enabled activity leaders with professional expertise to volunteer in leading walks and talks, supported by the Community Ranger. Examples included Lucy Delve, who led the Early Birds Walk and Talk in Sydney Gardens in May 2018. Lucy's approach and ability in teaching participants how to identify bird song was superb, and there was very positive feedback from participants and enthusiasm for a future series of sessions to learn about birdsong and habitat.

Professional mycologist and botanist Dr Alan Rayner led the Bath Natural Neighbourhood Watch as a volunteer, as did James Nash, an Arboricultural Officer working with the B&NES Parks and Trees Service. James' professional working knowledge of the trees in Sydney Gardens hugely inspired the fully booked walk and talk audience, and his knowledge of the circumstances leading to one of the old London Planes that had recently had to be felled in the park was especially useful, and he was able to show us maps and photographs of the internal condition of the tree.

The project team have also managed and led volunteer sessions: the recreation of the historic Labyrinth on the former Bowls Club Lawn. We worked with a group of volunteers, some new to the park, setting out and marking up the pattern on the grass in November 2017. To test out the format for documenting the restoration project, we made a moving image documentation of the process, to inspire future volunteers and to acknowledge those who helped on the day. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r24lYYE7TKE

Refer to: SD 2.2 Activity Plan Supporting Database (Sheet 5) Activities undertaken in Development Phase (digital version) for full evaluation of the activity.

Our trial activities, along with the commissioned research reports undertaken in relation to future participation have fed into our Activity Plan.

4.12 Training

The Heritage Intern has benefitted from many internal training courses offered by B&NES Council including Advanced Excel, Presenting Data Creatively, Resilience training, Web Authoring, Job Interview and Application training, as well as informal training through the work of the project team, supported by the Project Manager and the Community Ranger.

The Development Phase has enabled us to prepare the ground for the Gardening Apprentice (18 months, FT) and to plan with the relevant Council departments (Parks Service Nursery Manager, Parks Heritage Team) and Bath College, enabling an Apprentice to achieve an NVQ3 qualification and gain practical experience working alongside the Horticulture Participation Officer and assisting with volunteer sessions in Sydney Gardens, as well as practical tasks in the park.

Training for volunteers and participants tested out in Development was focused into two strands:

 training sessions for the Friends of Sydney Gardens Committee in event management, planning and safety, and also in volunteer management, boundaries, safeguarding and future policies needed for volunteering in Delivery

Susan Palmer, Community Ranger 62 Sydney Gardens, Bath PP-16-00071 SD 2.1 Activity Plan 2018

 training for residents, communities and park users in horticultural skills (pruning) and tree identification and management

We used these trial training activities to engage with participants about interest in themes and opportunities the park provides with reference to the built and natural heritage. We also evaluated our training sessions, and used that to build future training provision, alongside evidence from public consultation and commissioned research to inform the programme for Delivery.

4.13 How we created our Activity Plan

In previous sections, we have detailed the various audience groups, organisations and individuals who have contributed ideas, thoughts and needs to our Activity Plan, gathered through commissioned research, consultation and design exhibitions, feedback and comments following activities and events, over the past 18 months of Development, and beyond that.

SD 2.8 Evidence from Public Consultations for the Activity Plan S3e.1 Public Consultation and Design Exhibition Report

The Friends of Sydney Gardens and The Holburne Museum are the key partners that have contributed directly to designing this Activity Plan, supported by our project Steering Group. The Canal & River Trust, Julian House and Age UK Bath have also been part of the programming.

The Community Ranger has taken forward ideas and suggestions to form a comprehensive Activity Plan, one that integrates ambitious ideas and innovation, and drawn from professional experience in the creating creative programmes of public engagement.

Findings from our Development Phase trial activity and events have directly fed into the Action Plan for Delivery; learning and opportunities are being taken forward.

4.14 How we created our Interpretation Plan

Over the Development Phase, the project team undertook extensive research into the built, social and cultural heritage of Sydney Gardens.

This research was collated into two documents between September 2017 and May 2018: The Sydney Gardens Gazetteer compiled by the Heritage Intern and the ‘Interpretation Research’ as part of the Activity Plan Supporting Database (SD 2.2) by the Community Ranger.

Please refer to: AD 1.1 Sydney Gardens Interpretation Plan AD 1.2 Research for Interpretation S2 a.1 Sydney Gardens Gazetteer

Susan Palmer, Community Ranger 63 Sydney Gardens, Bath PP-16-00071 SD 2.1 Activity Plan 2018

Following this gathering of ideas and data around the opportunities for physical, printed and digital interpretation in Sydney Gardens, the project team wanted a fresh view and an experienced opinion to go forward for the Sydney Gardens Interpretation Plan.

Red Kite were commissioned (through LDA Design) to take forward the research that we had gathered to conclusive ideas with costings, and to bring a cohesive interpretation overview to the project. The consultants were asked to include a diversity of components that we could consider.

Red Kite’s Interpretation Plan includes a number of potential interpretation methods and cost levels, and we will be taking a ‘pick and mix’ approach when choosing which to use, based on appropriateness and cost at Delivery. However, there are key interpretation elements we will be using:

 A welcome board or lectern at key entrances  ‘Telltale Tiles’ – metal or resin icons set into the pathways  Orientation compass  Timeline frieze mural and ceiling painting in the Temple of Minerva  Loggia window and door murals  Model ponies (climbable, rideable figures) on the former Ride  Starter contribution towards a bronze seated Jane Austen Statue Crowdfunding campaign (in partnership with the Bath & Bristol Branch of the Jane Austen Society)  Magnifiers, Viewers and Lenses (Sneak a Peek)  Historic Labyrinth laid out and mown in grass  Downloadable and printed PDF trail sheets – for Jane Austen, heritage features, etc.  Downloadable and printed PDF learning resources for schools and self-led visits  Downloadable and printed PDF Tree Trail  Downloadable and printed PDF map / infographic for people with disabilities / needs  Enhanced and upgraded in-house ‘microsite’ within B&NES website rather than a custom site  Short moving image works (heritage restoration focus) made by volunteers  Podcasts of oral history collection, made by volunteers

We will also use interpretive activities which are detailed in full in the Activity Plan and associated budget. These include:

 Talks and tours of Sydney Gardens about built and natural heritage  Hidden History Talks & Walks  Stone Conservation talks and practical workshops  Ironwork Conservation talks  Re-creating the historic Labyrinth with volunteers  Community Archaeology Days with volunteers  Rediscovering the heritage of Georgian Reservoir  Commemorating the 100th Anniversary of the Golden Peace Oak  Jane Austen costume parade days  Steam Train celebrations ‘Theatre of Steam’

Susan Palmer, Community Ranger 64 Sydney Gardens, Bath PP-16-00071 SD 2.1 Activity Plan 2018

Many of the training and volunteering opportunities are built around interpreting, understanding and sharing the extraordinary history and heritage of Sydney Gardens.

Social media and online distribution will play a vital role in engaging the public and our target audiences with the interpretation we produce. Currently we have not committed to a digital interpretation ‘app’ for Sydney Gardens. We hosted a research visit from SPRYTAR in the development phase, but due to the fast moving nature of contemporary digital platforms, we have reserved commitment. Our priority is to develop a fully accessible free at point of access sustainable website, complemented by media (audio and visual) channels. We will revise this situation at the start of the delivery.

‘What a fantastic morning we had today! Lucy is so interesting and dedicated to Sydney Gardens and the birds! Could you tell me the name of the birdsong app you were using? Thanks again for arranging these walks.’

Feedback from attendee at the Early Birds Walk & Talk

‘It’s wrong that Bath neglects this area of history’ ‘Lovely talk. Very helpful re assimilating complex history’ ‘Excellent talk. There is significant interest in exploring our histories in more contoured, plural ways’

Feedback from attendees at ‘Bath, Slavery and Memoryscape’ A talk by Olivette Otele, hosted in partnership with the Holburne Museum

‘How did you hear about the event? A flyer put through my door Did you enjoy the Tree Walk? Yes - very much. Steady pace, interesting, local history, knowledgeable, thoughtful and presented well. What else would you like to learn about the trees in Sydney Gardens? What I was told last night is all I know! What else is there to know? Interested in the trees themselves and also life in the trees (insects, birds, mammals etc)’

Questionnaire feedback from attendee at a Tree Walk and Talk

Susan Palmer, Community Ranger 65 Sydney Gardens, Bath PP-16-00071 SD 2.1 Activity Plan 2018

5. Our Project

5.1 Project Aim and Vision:

Revitalise Sydney Gardens as a beautiful Pleasure Garden with peaceful and tranquil spaces, that achieves a renaissance as a unique, fun and restorative environment, for all ages; its remarkable built and natural heritage, people and events, told and experienced in witty and eclectic ways.

5.1.1 Seven key project drivers

Cultural Heritage: A Sense of Time – hidden and overt layers of history, distinctive with a depth of time, raising questions and pushing boundaries.

Biodiversity: Wildlife Refuge – linking in with surrounding green infrastructure, increase and diversify wildlife habitat and species.

Curiosity: A Pleasure Garden - fun, playful, entertaining, eclectic, inviting, stimulating, and restorative.

Participation: Valued Involvement - widening participation and improving use of the Gardens.

Inclusivity: Accessible – widening engagement and participation through connections, relevance and welcoming environment.

Innovation: Originality – challenge all aspects of the Gardens such as planting, participation, funding, partnerships and to seek to innovate.

Endurance: Sustainable Garden - play and enjoyment on into the future, through enduring project outcomes, maintained infrastructure and sustained financial support.

Susan Palmer, Community Ranger 66 Sydney Gardens, Bath PP-16-00071 SD 2.1 Activity Plan 2018

5.2 Design guides and principles for participation 5.2.1 Five design ground rules

1. Assemble rather than disperse; 2. Integrate rather than separate; 3. Invite rather than repel; 4. Open up rather than close in; and 5. Increase rather than reduce.

5.2.2 Design principles and approach

Associated with the five ground rules are a number of design principles which will be used to guide the developing masterplan and detail design, where appropriate:

A park should bring people together - proximity provides the social glue that makes it possible for strangers to converse - when many things are happening at the same time, opportunities for chatting arise and the park becomes more convivial - therefore,

 work with what is there;  offer niches as well as creating more extensive spaces  seek to create contact points;  arrange ‘use’ offerings close to each other to initiate triangulation; and  be welcoming to all – appropriate spaces draw people into the park who would not use it otherwise.

To generate successful event spaces, consider a performative approach throughout the scheme. Address the human scale and create spaces with life and a ‘buzz’. Promise relaxation, variety and surprise – therefore,

 orchestrate where people come together and where they can seek more peaceful areas;  consider orientation throughout the day (where is the sun / shade in early morning, day, and evening);  create appropriate outdoor ‘rooms’ so that different activities can be put on simultaneously;  install the necessary infrastructure to facilitate temporary events;  use a simple palette of materials;  be functional, but with an appealing aesthetic and locate sensitively;  consider the long term (can it be sustained); and  consider and embed opportunities for income generation.

Susan Palmer, Community Ranger 67 Sydney Gardens, Bath PP-16-00071 SD 2.1 Activity Plan 2018

5.3 Three Activity Themes

The Pleasure Garden:

cultural and built heritage: the park as a place to explore from and travel to; 'through routers' invited to pause; transport; walking; horses; canal; railway; paths, gateways, bridges; historic buildings; historic people; maps; architectural heritage; ways of seeing; perception; artistic interpretation; arts, arts and landscape; artists in residence; art in the park; contemporary making; history of art in relation to landscape and design, innovation; originality; sense of time; a place to take and to spend time, as well as to enjoy travelling through.

People & The Park:

play and wellbeing for all ages: the park as a space for play, games and social interaction; meeting; strolling; events; markets; food; flowers; physical activity; social heritage of Pleasure Gardens; entertainment; music; literature; inclusive; accessible; dementia friendly; welcoming to all; a place for socialising, meeting and learning; a safe place; a place for mental wellbeing; creative play.

People & Nature:

natural heritage: a place to be in green space; to learn about people and nature; increased perception and understanding of non-human and other species; make and learn about art and nature; the culture of nature; 'witness' heritage trees as portals to learning, trees as teachers (tree time); 'reading' the landscape; biodiversity; increasing and protecting habitat; gardening and cultivating; wildlife; living heritage.

A series of events and activities has been programmed from these themes, taken forward from Round 1 and detailed in 6.0 Action Plan. They meet HLF Outcomes across Heritage, People and Communities. Each strand usefully develops a focus to ensure important opportunities in relation to learning, engagement, inclusivity and participation are covered.

Susan Palmer, Community Ranger 68 Sydney Gardens, Bath PP-16-00071 SD 2.1 Activity Plan 2018

5.4 Activity Plan Principles

Connections between communities, people and place, insights into other worlds, and change over time, with the theme of the Cosmorama - a lens and portal to other places and times, drawing directly on heritage of gardens:

 Have fun, get and stay healthy, take pleasure in this landscape  Draw on heritage through using layers of time  Interpret it and animate it in a truly innovative manner  Increase diversity of use, and inclusivity of park  Work closely with partners and stakeholders  Collaborate with and support the Friends of Sydney Gardens  Build a legacy, a practical sustainable active park supporting communities, enabling volunteering and participation, and continuing partnerships

5.5 Summary of Action Plan for Delivery

Refer to: 6.0 for Action Plan in this Activity Plan (A3 size) including meeting HLF Outcomes and Timeable

The Pleasure Garden

- An Illuminations event to 'open' the park featuring projections, lit pathways, light sculptures, recreating Georgian 'illuminations' around the gardens - A 'Cosmorama' Arts and Nature Festival Weekend in partnership with the Holburne and Canal & Rivers Trust - Hosting city celebrations such as Bath Carnival - Small scale performances and concerts on the lawns and in the Temple of Minerva - acoustic, duets, quartets - Annual Community Day / Social Park Day with stalls, play, games, talks and tours and to connect to nearby projects: Cleveland Pools, Kennet and Avon Canal, GW railway, Bathscape, pleasure boats, walking and cycling routes and celebrating World Heritage Day - Theatre of Steam with trainspotting and celebration of the railway, hosting the 'Park Keepers' model railway display of Sydney Gardens - Events to coincide with the Jane Austen festival including literature and 'bibliotherapy' in the park, and others to celebrate historic pageants - Picnics in the park, food markets

Susan Palmer, Community Ranger 69 Sydney Gardens, Bath PP-16-00071 SD 2.1 Activity Plan 2018

Physical games and play & Mental Wellbeing for all

- Tai Chi in the park - Tennis, basketball, table tennis - Table tennis for the over 50s - Measured mile walks around the park, running routes, and measured distance posts - Teenage games and play - Supervised younger play and toddler outdoor play - Petanque - National Play Day Event - Bathscape Walking Festival activities - A Dementia Friendly Park - Mindfulness Walks - Social Breakfasts and Meets Ups - Mental health activities for young people - Dedicated activities for clients of Julian House DVA Service - A place to socialise, to take time

Learning about heritage

- Walks, tours and talks in the Gardens about the heritage of the garden: landscape design, railways and built infrastructure, the trees and lived social history, pleasure through the centuries in print and digital form - Trail celebrating the life and work of Jane Austen - Tree trail and learning about champion trees and significant species - Special open days and tours of specific sites such as the Edwardian Toilets, Georgian Reservoir. - Stone Conversation and Ironwork restoration workshops and activities - Learning and educational sessions for schools, home educators and self-led visits - Downloadable activity sheets and trails for children and families across age to explore the park - Digital interactive tool / platform to explore and interpret the park - Joint learning resources created with the Holburne Museum and other partners - Connecting to vocational courses in the region including stone conservation at Bath College, metal conservation, and Heritage MA at Bath Spa University

Susan Palmer, Community Ranger 70 Sydney Gardens, Bath PP-16-00071 SD 2.1 Activity Plan 2018

- Partnering with other projects and institutions to deliver joint training and volunteering opportunities - Bathscape Walking Festival and project, Canal & Rivers Trust, Holburne Museum - Oral history collection and documenting the heritage and restoration of the park through still and moving image, and podcasts - Documenting the restoration of the park - Wildlife in the park, habitat management and creation - Gardening and horticultural heritage and gardening for biodiversity - Botany - Archaeology - Painting, making art and drawing in the park - Hosting and partnering on arts activities with the Holburne Museum

A Community and Social Space

- A café / kiosk with affordable snacks and drinks for all - Meeting space for community use, children's parties and voluntary groups - Hosting clubs - Social breakfasts and wellbeing activities - Open space for dog walking, playing, moving and socialising - An inclusive and fully accessible public green space

5.6 Audiences

We will continue to work with and develop audiences as identified in Round 1 and developed through the past 18 months. We will work with existing audiences and continue to broaden participation and catchment to bring new audiences into the park.

Our Activity Plan meets our organisational aims and many of the strategic policies outlined in points 3.4 and 3.5. It also is built around encouraging social cohesion and well-being.

Point 4.9 and 4.10 detailed how we have worked with each audience strand through the Development Phase, both existing audiences and park users, and how we broadened and diversified participation. Our research commissions articulated in point 4.8 demonstrates how we have outreached to new audiences and participants, and have with established research outcomes that we can work from.

We are ready to work to deliver our Action Plan (6.0) with activities designed to engage:  Local children and their families  Teenagers and young adults

Susan Palmer, Community Ranger 71 Sydney Gardens, Bath PP-16-00071 SD 2.1 Activity Plan 2018

 Over 65s  Vulnerable people (Victims of Abuse)  People in poor health (physical and mental wellbeing)  Day visitors and tourists  Learners  Through routers

5.7 Priority / target audiences

5.7.1 Dementia

We will build on our research and work in the Development Phase to make Sydney Gardens Dementia Friendly, concurrently making the park 'friendly for all'; a dementia friendly space also matches guidance to fit with the Association of Aphasia, Autism and visual impairment, so it is not exclusive.

Bath Dementia Access Alliance, run by volunteers, has 36 members who are dementia friendly organisations, including the Holburne Museum with another 65 who are in process of becoming dementia friendly, so Sydney Gardens would join a growing network of provision.

Sydney Gardens will be a flagship project as the first park in Bath to become dementia friendly, and set a precedent for others. Our park design and activities could inspire other green spaces in the city and the area.

By 2050, two million people will have dementia in UK. Bath, with around 3000 people currently experiencing dementia and of course supported by many carers, has an older population, so it is important to address.

An initial audit has been undertaken and we will complete this in 2019, working on the park design and delivering activities and engagement to make a Dementia Friendly Park by Year 3 of our project:

 an identified entrance and exit welcoming those with dementia and their carers  a circular walk without a steep incline that includes clear routes off to the Cafe Kiosk, to the Temple of Minerva (our central point of interpretation), to the train viewing area and the ancient trees, and connecting through to the Holburne Museum  benches en route, marked out in a connecting colour  simple waymarking signage, for example, a line on the ground to follow along the circular route  fully accessible toilets  social meet ups for older people  activities designed for those with dementia and their carers

Susan Palmer, Community Ranger 72 Sydney Gardens, Bath PP-16-00071 SD 2.1 Activity Plan 2018

5.7.2 Julian House DVA Services (victims of abuse)

Our trial session with families and children, and planning with the Julian House DVA Services manager and caseworker, has mapped out a series of activities for vulnerable participants who can benefit from sessions that draw on the heritage of the park for creative activities.

We will partner with the Holburne Education and Learning Team, supported at all times by a Julian House Caseworker, to deliver a dedicated programme of 16 weekly sessions per year for clients (adults, families, children, up to 12 per session) of Julian House DVA Services:

 8 x 2 hr creative sessions working with Julian House clients (adults only) around arts and nature in Sydney Gardens  8 x 2 hr sessions with families (adults and children) scheduled at appropriate times through the year including after-school and in school holidays (Easter, Half Terms and Summer Holidays)  Additional Play-Day Sessions out in the park for families and children on an occasional basis

The Letter of Support from the Julian House DVA Services Manager (Refer to S3e.2 Letters of Support) clearly articulates the benefits of a programme of free to access creative supported activity for clients of their services, both adults and children, that encourages mental well-being, time out of everyday pressures, and enables the development of new skills.

5.7.3 Pathways to Wellbeing 2 - The Holburne Museum

The Holburne Museum will be applying for funding for its Pathways to Wellbeing programme (2). Sydney Gardens Parks for People is very supportive of this programme of carefully planned and thoughtfully produced arts and creative work with vulnerable communities. The Community Ranger has worked closely with the Holburne Education and Outreach Team throughout the Development Phase, to build a programme that both organisations can realise. This strand of work is dependent upon funding secured via Holburne Museum.

Mental health and young people: an important contemporary issue, this will be the focus of the programme. Creative sessions in the park and in the Gardener's Lodge working with young people with lived experience of mental health issues reaching up to 20 young people (10 per session), plus the Gardener's Lodge Art Group exploring the history of Sydney Gardens to inspire new artworks.

Mentoring: we have also allocated up to 6 places for volunteers and parks employees from the Sydney Gardens Project to participate in the Holburne's Mentoring Programme, for training as mentors in safeguarding, wellbeing, Mental Health First Aid and in relation to supporting those who need confidence to volunteer and participate in activities that we run in the park.

10 days of the Community Ranger's time is allocated to support this programme. No budget from our Parks for People Project has been allocated directly to sessions so that there is no financial implication if the funding is not secured.

Susan Palmer, Community Ranger 73 Sydney Gardens, Bath PP-16-00071 SD 2.1 Activity Plan 2018

5.8 A Changing Places Toilet in Sydney Gardens

Over a quarter of a million people need Changing Places toilets to enable them to get out and about and enjoy the day-to-day activities many of us take for granted.

The Changing Places Consortium launched its campaign in 2006 on behalf of those people who cannot use standard accessible toilets. This includes people with profound and multiple learning disabilities, motor neurone disease, multiple sclerosis, cerebral palsy, as well as older people. The toilet facility has specialist equipment including benches and a hoist.

There is only one other Changing Places Toilet in Bath, at Southgate Shopping Centre, in the city centre. The other nearest ones are in Keynsham and Trowbridge. For a city the size of Bath, alongside the significant number of visitors and tourists, another toilet is needed.

A Changing Places facility in Sydney Gardens would be the first of its kind in a park in the Bath & North East Somerset region, encouraging and enabling people with profound and multiple learning disabilities and needs to visit this public green space, and this area of Bath.

It would provide a fully accessible specialist toilet next to the new Café Kiosk, to cater for Bath residents, visitors and tourists to this area, and complement and add to the Holburne Museum provision.

We are fully committed to creating a Changing Places toilet in Sydney Gardens, as part of our project, and the facility will be funded through application to the Bath City Forum using Community Infrastructure Levy funding (CiL).

5.9 Volunteering Opportunities

We have designed a volunteer offer to engage at least 60 unique volunteers, some with professional skills as tour leaders and trainers, specialists and conservationists, others skilled as event organisers and walk leaders, and others to give time and support to a variety of practical and organisational tasks.

Volunteering opportunities:

 Tour guiding (built heritage) and Walk & Talk leading (natural heritage)  Writing and helping to design heritage trails for Sydney Gardens: Trees, Transport, The Georgian Pleasure Gardens  Researching and gathering documentation of the social life of the Georgian Pleasure Gardens  Horticulture, Cultivation and Gardening through regular gardening session in the Sydney Gardening Club  Events planning and management, community event delivery

Susan Palmer, Community Ranger 74 Sydney Gardens, Bath PP-16-00071 SD 2.1 Activity Plan 2018

 Supporting events and activities over the project, including walk and talks and larger scale public events  Becoming a Dementia Friend or a Dementia Champion  Communications: designing publicity, using social media, websites and digital platforms  Running and supporting a Crowdfunding campaign for the Jane Austen Statue  Archiving, heritage management, oral history collection  Documenting the restoration project over the three years  Creating podcasts about the heritage of the Gardens  Community Archaeology Days around the Georgian Reservoir, the Ruin (in the depot area), the Rockery and the Labyrinth areas  Built heritage conservation - stone and ironwork  Setting out, marking and mowing the historic Labyrinth in grasses  Practical sessions to increase biodiversity, species surveys and keeping records of species, habitat management  Mentoring others

In the Development Phase, we hosted a training session for the Friends of Sydney Gardens looking at volunteer management, safeguarding and boundaries, and planned the policies we would need put in place for Delivery - refer to SD 20.18 Volunteer Policy (draft).

5.10 Training Opportunities

Training is tailored to a number of different needs, to engage at least 65 unique trainees. It has been organised in response to trail training sessions in the Development Phase, and also in response to the needs of the project in Delivery across horticulture and biodiversity, communications and media, documentation of the restoration project, and in organising and supporting public events, including walks and talks.

We also have an opportunity for training for qualification with a Gardener Apprentice (NVQ3), and for two interns: a Landscape Management Intern (0.6) and a Communications and Participation Intern (0.4). Both interns will be able to take advantage of free training courses at B&NES Council and from informal training by the Project Manager and Community Ranger.

Training opportunities:

 Horticulture and Gardening including planting and garden landscape design sessions  Events planning and management, risk assessments and safeguarding  Communications and media

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 How to run a successful Crowdfunding Campaign  Historic conservation including Stone, Ironwork  How to make a Sedum Green or Brown Roof  Setting out a design on the ground and recreating the historic Labyrinth  Creating a podcast: recording, editing and uploading  Digital photography skilling up, in still and moving image  Archiving, heritage management, oral history collection  Tour guiding and leading walks and talks  Interpretation masterclass for 'Know Your Place' and generating digital content  Species surveys, habitat management and creation to enhance biodiversity  Tree identification, management and conservation  Dementia Friends training for the Parks Heritage Team, Friends of Sydney Gardens  Mentoring others: mental health first aid training, safeguarding and policies

5.11 Visionary Ideas

Over the Development Phase, we created a gathering point for 'visionary ideas'. Some of these ideas are incorporated into our Activity Plan and into the Interpretation Plan such as three climbable rideable pony figures on the Ride around the park, and some are stored for future projects and further opportunities.

One piece of infrastructure we plan to install, funded entirely through a Crowdfunding campaign targeted to the many dog walkers who use the park is a Dog Poo Biodigester, that turns dog waste into solar powered light!

5.12 The Bothy - 'a model of exchange'

Refer to: SD 2.10 Bothy Brief

Vision: a unique opportunity for public participation within the park

 For the Bothy to be a key facility in widening participation and learning in the park, in relation to learning, the arts, heritage and well-being  For this use to be facilitated and realised through an experimental and innovative ‘model of exchange’ programme (inspired by Vancouver's Fieldhouse Residency Programme, researched by the Community Ranger, Sue Palmer during an international Winston Churchill Travel Fellowship researching participation in public urban green space)

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The Bothy, currently an unused former gardeners store and base in Sydney Gardens, provides an opportunity to experiment with a participatory 'model of exchange' – a structured way of introducing innovative, sustainable public participatory and learning activity in the park; an exchange for a service, not a monetary exchange. The Bothy would be offered as an affordable ‘residency space’ for an artist / maker / educator, in exchange for a programme of free public participatory activity based of an equivalence of the rent due.

Principles of the Bothy Residency:

 provides affordable and usable space for a practitioner / artist / educator lead group, organisation or collective,  enables a skill or process to be made visible and open to the public that would otherwise be unavailable, for example, a working forge, a wood carver, a stone carver, a play designer demonstrating and teaching skills to the public  enables and delivers a free participatory activity for park users and local communities, organised by the provider, for example, weekly wood carving sessions or monthly film making workshops, or a regular after school ‘outdoor classroom’  would be the first of its kind in the UK, to our knowledge

Benefits of the Bothy Residency:

 A sustainable participatory programme built into the long term future of the park;  Delivers an inventive and integrated programme of activity built around a specific theme or material process that connects to the park  Partners and collaborates with the Holburne Museum as the key arts and education provider, who could take on overseeing the residency programme over the long term;  Utilises and energises the park with a consistent, known long term activity  Innovates creative participatory activity in the park;  Innovates ways of engaging with the public;  Provides a meeting point for groups using the park such as visiting school groups;  Enables further funding to be raised by the ‘resident’ using the 'in-kind' studio space as leverage;  Creates a model that will generate interest from other green space managers and providers;  Animates a building in an innovative way;  The Bothy ‘resident’ keeps a 'presence' in the park; and  Has a long term creative impact on the park.

Over the first year of the Delivery, this model of exchange will be explored and developed through a focus group, with a plan for the first residency to commence in 2021.

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5.13 How we will deliver our Activity Plan

The Community Ranger will oversee the Activity Plan in Delivery. A breakdown of the Community Ranger's time commitment in delivering activities, training and events is on Sheet 10 of SD 2.2 Activity Plan Supporting Database, and activities are programmed allocating specific days of work to ensure the Activity Plan is achievable.

The Horticultural Participation Officer will oversee the Sydney Gardening Club and volunteer horticultural sessions and training.

Professionals and session leaders will be brought in to lead specific activities and to deliver training. The Friends of Sydney Gardens will also be supporting activities, co-organising events, and publicising and communicating our project.

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5.13.1 Key Partners

The Friends of Sydney Gardens are a key partner for Delivery, and are fully supportive of the project and ready to take the project to Delivery.

The Holburne’s vibrant education service (based in part in the Gardener’s Lodge within the park) already explores and makes some use of the unique and rich history of Sydney Gardens within its programmes. Our project will partner with the education and participation service, and the curatorial and development team, to develop the park as both a key teaching and learning resource and a source of inspiration.

The Canal & River Trust is also a key partner for selected activities, events and volunteering connections. Strong relationships have been built with other keys partners such as Julian House DVA Services, Bath Area Play Project, Jane Austen Society, Age UK Bath, Bathwick St Mary's Primary School as well as the B&NES Council Departments engaged in this project such as the World Heritage & Arts Team.

The organisations, community and voluntary groups that we worked with and nurtured during the Development Phase are fully supportive, alongside the project Steering Group and Residents Associations.

5.14 Costs

The total cost of the activities element of our project of £135,000 (excluding any interpretive items). The activities element is comprised of:

Professional fees and sessional workers £70,000 Event budget £30,000 Equipment and materials (including printed materials) £25,000 Training for Volunteers £10,000

There is also money allocated for physical interpretation on site, for design, build and installation.

The costs are in proportion to the total cost of the project, demonstrating our commitment to engaging people with the built and natural heritage.

The Action Plan (6.0) has a break-down of costs including professional fees, expenses, materials, hires and additional venue costs. These are based on evidence from trial activities, quotes given by artists and service providers.

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5.15 HLF outcomes, measuring success & evaluation

The activities in our Action Plan have quantitative and qualitative measures of success, tailored according to the relationship to the HLF outcomes that we want to achieve across Heritage, People and Communities: see Action Plan 6.0 HLF Outcomes checklist table or refer to Sheet 6 a) SD 2.2 Activity Plan Supporting Database.

Evidenced on this checklist table are the ways that each activity meets each of the outcomes, with a good spread of results visible across our Action Plan. The primary outcomes are:

Heritage: will be better interpreted and explained People: will have developed skills People: will have learnt about heritage People: will have volunteered time Communities: more people and a wider range of people will have engaged with heritage

Our targets and measures of success are detailed for each activity using a diversity of measures including:

 numbers of participants or audience attending  numbers of new volunteers  quality of delivery of an activity  the success of any partnership delivery  participants learnt something new about heritage  participants have learnt a new skill  participants have a positive experience  participants engage or take part in an activity who don't normally visit the park or who haven't been to the park before  increase in audience  people joining Friends of Sydney Gardens  participation in volunteer gardening  diversity of people participating in volunteer gardening  diversity of people from BME communities use the park  participants with disabilities engage in the park and with activities  social media traction  outputs are met

We will evaluate the success and learning from the Sydney Gardens project against these measures. Evaluation methodologies include:

 questionnaires to activity participants  conversation exchange  questionnaire to partners, organisers or staff  records of numbers and demographic of participants  sample audience surveys

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 online surveys  observational surveys

Evaluation was undertaken at all the activities tested in the Development Phase - for an example please refer to: SD 2.5 Public Engagement Report.

The project will commission an external Evaluator to start in Year 1. Part of the evaluator's brief will be to revisit the targets and measures of success in relation to the HLF outcomes, and the evaluation methods and processes.

5.16 Longer-term benefits

Through Delivery, we will build a lasting legacy through strengthening the ties and connections between B&NES Council Parks Service and the residents and communities of interest around Sydney Gardens. This foundational project will enable a network of engagement that will bring greater social cohesion and participation, generating interest from residents and visitors, enabling a stronger sense of ownership from a wider and more diverse audience. The heritage of the Gardens, rejuvenated and shared with a wider audience, with a new play area and Cafe Kiosk, a Dementia Friendly design, will bring greater visibility, increased participation and therefore greater protection and care to this green space.

We will establish the long term legacy of a working partnership between the Council and the Holburne to ensure the heritage of the full footprint of Sydney Gardens is ongoing, protected and secure, for future generations.

The partnership and collaborative working that has evolved during the Development Phase is a key part of that future. The Holburne already cite the importance of the Gardener's Lodge building within the park as a key site of community engagement and learning delivery - it is often fully booked with relatively small groups (up to 12 participants) due to its size. Adding the Community Pavilion (the redeveloped modern toilet block) as a space for community engagement and learning expands the opportunities, capacity and long term community involvement in the park, enabling a richer programme of delivery for both the park and the Museum.

The investment of working closely with the Friends of Sydney Gardens, training volunteers in skills needed for the long term future of the park is vital. Our Activity Plan is designed to build the skill base for volunteers across horticulture, communications, event planning and delivery, and in supporting a wider range of people to participate in the park.

The Bothy ‘model of exchange’ provides a consistent, long term and dedicated relationship, using a building as a connector between a provider (the individual / group in residence in the Bothy) and park users and visitors.

The Sydney Gardens Project will generate interest, through the restoration project of this fascinating historic park. We will share the story through the resources we create: interpretation materials, podcasts, photos and moving image works.

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5.17 SD 2.2 Activity Plan Supporting Database - Excel spreadsheet

What is the Activity Plan Supporting Database?

The Activity Plan has a key strategic research document: the Activity Plan Supporting Database (Excel spreadsheet SD2.2). This document is a compilation of all the research and investigation undertaken in the Development Phase of the project, between July 2017 and June 2018. It represents the 'brain' of the project - all the research, ideas and activity plan data - compiled by the Sydney Gardens Community Ranger.

It is vital to capture all the back ground research about Sydney Gardens; to pull forward all the good practice, feedback and comments, public engagement and ideas about activity in the park. This application has been a long time in development (through all its various stages as outlined in the Introduction), and it was imperative we consolidated the research and good work done, as well as bring the latest contemporary ideas around heritage interpretation into the mix.

An Excel spreadsheet to capture all the ideas and research was devised as a result of conversations with our HLF mentor. This spreadsheet is a reference for the Development Phase of the project, as evidence and a memory bank for future projects too.

Due to its file size, the full database is not able to exist in entirety in print form. For full details of the collected evidence from the Activities in the Development Phase, please refer to the digital version of the Supporting Database.

The database is also the basis for our Activity Plan and our Action Plan (6), and allowed us to test costs, capacity and to edit down and refine our options from all the initial ideas, without the original research getting lost.

For example, 'Visionary Ideas' (Sheet 4) details ambitious ideas, some of which are being taken forward, some remain as a possibility for future development and requiring further funding.

Some 'cells', especially from the original research (Sheets 13 a, b and c, and early research 14 i, ii, iii) are incomplete; this is not a concern, due to the information and plan progressing and evolving into the Action Plan (6), where all the activities are detailed.

How to use the Activity Plan Supporting Database (as digital document):

Use the 'Sheets' or 'Tabs' at the bottom of the document to navigate through the Contents. The sheet numbers correspond with the Index on the left.

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Orientation and Contents of the digital document as a printed reference:

Themes and Contexts: 1 the overall themes and contexts of the Sydney Gardens Project with target audiences, volunteer and training opportunities Aims, Design and Drivers: 2 the 7 key drivers of the Sydney Gardens project along with design principles and considerations

Activity Summary 3 a summary of activity themes proposed in Round 1 taken forward to Round 2

Visionary Ideas 4 a place for ambitious ideas and projects for the park that may fall beyond the scope of the Parks for People Project, or that will need additional or independent fundraising to achieve Activities in the Development Phase 5 Activities and events run in the Development Phase to trail activities, test out partnership working, gauge interest, undertake volunteer training, outreach to new audiences, engage schools, work with target audiences, research and develop learning materials

6 Action Plan activities, events and training for the Delivery Phase 2019 - 2021

HLF Outcomes table 6a Table of planned activities meeting HLF Outcomes

7 Timetable of Activity Programme

8 Development Phase Costs and Budget Deployment of staff and interns 9 Community Ranger, Interns, Gardener Apprentice & Horticultural Participation Officer Record of Meetings 10 Community Ranger's Meetings with partners, voluntary groups, organisations and individuals through the Development Phase Public Consultations 11 Feedback and comments relevant to the Activity Plan Interpretation 12 Collated research and ideas around interpretation during Development Phase Pleasure & Leisure 13 a Activities for the Delivery Phase that focus on events and entertainment, and celebrate the heritage of the gardens People & The Park 13 b Activities for the Delivery Phase that focus on learning, play, volunteering, built and natural heritage, social cohesion and well being People & Nature 13 c Activities for the Delivery Phase that focus on nature, wildlife, species, biodiversity,

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gardening, trees and wellbeing in nature

Development Phase initial research mapping themes, activities and events across 14 I, ii, iii Development and Delivery phases

6.0

Our Action Plan

Our Action Plan details the activities, events and training for the Delivery Phase. It is organised under the three themes of:

- Pleasure Garden (PG) - People and the Park (PP) - People and Nature (PN)

A section of training activity is associated with each theme (T).

Each activity (ie PG 1) may be one event, or a series of workshops organised under one theme, for example, 'Hidden History' talks are under PG 13, but there are three talks in total, one per year. This is detailed in each activity.

The Action Plan is supported by: HLF Outcome Checklist Table A timetable of activities

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6. ACTION PLAN: Sydney Gardens: Activities & Training for Delivery Phase Years 1 -3 (2019 to 2021)

Ref. Activity: detailed description Audience Benefits for people Outcome Resources Timetable Targets & Measure of success Method of evaluation

Communiti THE PLEASURE GARDENS: Events and activities about the 'pleasure gardens', heritage shared and diversified, entertaining, social, enabling learning for all Heritage People es

Community Day' 2019 Numbers of audience attending: 1500 - run in partnership with the Friends of Sydney Gardens - establish event that Friends of Sydney Gardens can continue to run on various scales 15 New 'Friends' join FoSG Residents and visitors will enjoy the park as a multi-use Theme for 2019: Boats and Trains: space for all ages Community Ranger: 6 days 10 New volunteers recruited People will - in partnership with Canal & Rivers Trust Tally of visitor numbers (monitored by General public across age and ability: have learnt Yr 1 - hosting The Park Keepers Model Railway Display of Sydney Garden featuring the gardens in the 1960s Audiences will have an increased understanding of built, FoSG 20% of audience learn something new about volunteers) Friends of Sydney Gardens about heritage and to celebrate Brunel legacy (indoors at Holburne) natural and cultural heritage accessed through a range heritage of Sydney Gardens Park through-routers of activities More people Volunteers for organisation: 15 days Social media traction and engagement Visitors and tourists People will 2019: September: - stalls with local voluntary organisations (Bath Bees, Canal & Rivers Trust, local heritage projects) plus Heritage will be and a wider Positive feedback on the experience of the day with new 'likes' and shares Local residents have had an medium scale event to selected food stalls The Community Day will promote social engagement, better range of Volunteers running the event: 10 Children and young people enjoyable coincide with Steam PG 1 - Friends of Sydney Gardens public stall to recruit new Friends and volunteers civic cohesion and wellbeing for people of all ages and interpreted people will Quality of engagement in a number of activities Evaluation with activity leaders and Older people experience Train timetable and - play session with games and sports for all backgrounds and explained have engaged Comms Intern: 5 days providers Intergenerational model railway display - historic tours of the Gardens with heritage Success of partnerships Regional audience People will hosted at Holburne - open the historic Edwardian Loos Celebrate the heritage of the park within a regional / Canal & River Trust On site sample audience survey have Museum - Stone Conservation Demonstration & Ironwork Forge on site national / international context Engagement with local area inc businesses and volunteered - practical learning skill workshops for historic conservation Holburne Museum organisations Questionnaire to Volunteers time - miniature ponies from Bath City Farm, or Pony Rides - dressing up and costume box The Park Keepers (Model Railway) A well organised, safe and smoothly delivered - live music 'quartet' performance public event in the park, managed and run in - Rounders and Picnic in the park partnership with Friends of Sydney Gardens - use platform to launch future park activities e.g. music programme (FoSG)

Numbers of audience attending: 2500

25 New 'Friends' join FoSG Community Day' 2021 Residents and visitors will enjoy the park as a multi-use Community Ranger: 7 days - run in partnership with the Friends of Sydney Gardens space for all ages 10 New volunteers recruited People will - establish event that Friends of Sydney Gardens can continue to run on various scales in the future General public across age and ability: Tally of visitor numbers (monitored by have learnt FoSG Friends of Sydney Gardens Audiences will have an increased understanding of built, 20% of audience learn something new about volunteers) about heritage Yr 3 Theme: Sydney Gardens across history and design on World Heritage Day: April 2021 Park through-routers natural and cultural heritage accessed through a range Sydney Gardens Volunteers for organisation: 15 days Recreating popular pageant. Visitors and tourists of activities More people Social media traction and engagement People will Local residents Heritage will be and a wider Positive feedback on the experience of the day with new 'likes' and shares have had an Volunteers running the event: 10 - stalls with local voluntary organisations Children and young people The Community Day will promote social engagement, better range of enjoyable 2021: April: Large scale PG 2 - Friends of Sydney Gardens public stall to recruit new Friends and volunteers Older people civic cohesion and wellbeing for people of all ages and interpreted people will Quality of engagement in a number of activities Evaluation with activity leaders and experience Comms Intern: 5 days event hosted in - play session with games and sports for all Intergenerational backgrounds and explained have engaged providers partnership with B&NES - historic tours of the Gardens Regional audience with heritage Success of partnerships People will B&NES World Heritage Team Council World Heritage - Stone Conservation Demonstration & Ironwork Forge National audience Celebrate the heritage of the park within a regional / On site sample audience survey have Day - dressing up and costume box national / international context Engagement with local area inc businesses and volunteered Holburne Museum - live music performance organisations Questionnaire to volunteers time - Pageant and procession around the park Canal & River Trust - Bath World Heritage B&NES team additional events and activities A well organised, safe and smoothly delivered public event in the park, managed and run in partnership with Friends of Sydney Gardens (FoSG)

Illumination! General Public 10 different 'groups' across educational A launch event in final year of restoration Park users Increase understanding of entertainment and cultural institutions and community groups engaged in - Film screenings Visitors and tourists" heritage All project team making light works, including those of diverse - A rocket! 3000+ people Yr 2: Engage event People will FoSG needs and abilities - Projections onto the Canal and onto the bridges manager, establish and Community groups and students creating new light have learnt Event producer (freelance) - Tethered balloon with projection Primary Schools, youth groups, older people, plan event, involve works for a significant public audience about heritage Artist Maker Educator (freelance) 5% of audience is new to the park Questionnaire to all participants who - Illuminated trees community groups to create some of the Heritage will be students, community Volunteers x 10 make works for the Illuminations event - Illuminated walkways and paths with lamps and light sculptures works through artist - led sessions better More people groups and schools in Experience the restored park and see the changes made People will Contributing works from target audiences - Information sheet produced especially for the event about history of illuminations in garden interpreted and a wider planning have had an Community Ranger x 8 days Conversations with participants and - Special content made for digital platform about Illuminations Bath Spa University Digital Design and and explained range of See the park in new ways through light, through lenses enjoyable High quality of engagement audiences PG 3 - Works made by Bath Digital Design students, schools and community groups led by artist in run up to Creative BA students people will Yr 3: Preparation for experience Aim to apply for Arts Council England the launch Heritage will be have engaged event Social engagement and civic cohesion Funding for £15K to make total budget High quality illuminated works Evaluation with activity leaders - Possible involvement of another culture - Chinese Moon Festival (15th day of 8th lunar month) - realised Bathwick / Widcombe primary schools identified / with heritage People will of £21K through partnering with Rui Chinese Restaurant beside the park King Edwards School recorded September or October Yr Celebratory have Features in national picture On site sample audience survey Local clubs 3: Illumination Event volunteered Canal & River Trust Research report undertaken by Prof Anthony Head (Bath Spa Uni Digital Design & Illuminate Bath) with Teenage groups Educational time 2000+ audience for the event possible plans and costings to different scales. Canal boat community Holburne Museum Ref SD 2.14 Report: Illuminations Launch Event Holburne Museum Variety and diversity - all welcome People learn about heritage they didn't know Canal and Rivers Trust & K&A Canal before Volunteers Bathwick Junior class of children engaged in a Peace / Tree dedication project

Learning about the significance of the Peace 'Golden' Community Ranger x 1 day Commemorating the 100th Anniversary of Peace Day in Bath Oak in Sydney Gardens General Public Quality of stone marker for the Peace Day Oak Questionnaire to school post participation - Designing and making a stone marker for the Golden Oak in Sydney Gardens with students from Bath B&NES Council WH team (+ £300 for Visitors and Tourists Press coverage of the event College Stone Conservation Course Making a resilient stone marker to replace broken materials) Park users Yr 1: Saturday 6th July Conversational feedback - Public event to rededicate the tree with Chair of Council, Mayor, and granddaughter of the Councillor wooden plaque Heritage will be People will Bathwick Primary School children (one class 2019 Engagement from residents and park users, as who planted it in 1919 in a better have learnt Bath College Stone Masonry students PG 4 project) well as visitors across age Press and social media coverage increased - Bathwick / Widcombe Junior Schools invited to do a learning project about the Peace Day and Increased knowledge and understanding of the heritage condition about heritage Bath College Stone Masonry Students traction dedicating a tree to an event and to participate in the unveiling of new stone of the park Family of Cllr who originally dedicated it One class of Primary School children engaged in - Use the event to plan to plant a succession tree in Sydney Gardens to replace the fallen London Plane. Council Chair (in diary) the project 50 people of all ages attending on the day Public event that increases knowledge and Plaque made by Bath College Stone understanding of Bath's Peace Day in 1919 students OR volunteer stone masons (already offered via Cllr's family connections PLUS additional funding if necessary)

More people Bath Carnival (large scale annual music and dance event running annually in July) General Public and a wider Community Ranger x 2 days People will 20% of people participating in our activity learn - Working with another entertainment event in the park brought in by other provider Visitors and Tourists Learning about the heritage of Sydney Gardens range of B&NES Events Team Yr 1 & Yr 3 (no Yr 2 due to have learnt something new about heritage of SG Feedback form at stall and activity PG 5 - Information stall about Sydney Gardens including dressing up and costume box for visitors taking Park users people will Volunteers x 3 construction works) about heritage inspiration from the pageants that were held in Sydney Gardens, e.g. King Bladud and the pigs have engaged Bath Carnival organising team with heritage

Increased visitor engagement Jane Austen costume parade day Community Ranger x 3 days New audiences understanding wider heritage of - Annual event in Bath over 10 days in mid September Heritage will be Jane Austen Society Sydney Gardens - Special readings in the park of Jane Austen works General Public People will Connecting to Sydney Gardens for international better Reader x 2 days - Tours of Sydney Gardens focused on Jane Austen Visitors and Tourists have learnt Yr 1, September Sample participant / audience survey PG 6 audiences and increasing visitor reach interpreted Volunteer Readers x 5 Crowdfunding campaign for JA statue launched - Launch of crowd funding campaign for statue Park users about heritage and explained Volunteers at Event x 3 successfully Ref AD 1.1 Interpretation Plan Jane Austen Centre, Bath Ref S2 a.1 Sydney Gardens Gazetteer 3 x new volunteers to promote Crowdfunding campaign

Crowd funding campaign to raise £30,000 to create and install a bronze seated statue of Jane Austen for Sydney Gardens Jane Austen Society People will - working with Jane Austen Society Heritage will be have - launch the Jane Austen trail / resource at the same time (written by Diana White, funded in print and General Public Statue in Sydney Gardens would bring people down from better Holburne Museum Yr 1 seed crowdfunder Popularity with public developed PDF by the project) Visitors and Tourists the City centre to the Holburne and the Gardens interpreted Yr 2 commission to skills Popularity of statue installed in Sydney - seated statue, reading, face veiled, seated on the long stone seat, one of the original features of the Bath Universities and Colleges and explained Community Ranger x 3 days sculptor Successful Crowd funding campaign Gardens re visitors monitored over 3 PG 7 park restored Park users Become part of the Mayor Guide Walks and Talks Install end of Yr 2 on People will months post installation of statue - design of statue allows visitors to be photographed seating beside statue (as is popular in other visitor Jane Austen Society Heritage will be Comms & Participation Intern to run the Long Seat when High quality statue designed and installed in the have contexts) International tourists and visitors Create a new landmark in the park identified / crowd funder and publicity campaign x construction complete Gardens volunteered - If the crowd funding campaign fails to reach its target then a Bath stone plinth with silhouette will be recorded 25 days time installed in the park (£2k from Interpretation Budget) - partner with Holburne re design, artist and installation

Popularity of statue installed in Sydney Gardens re visitors monitored over 3 Increase of tourists and visitors to the park months post installation of statue Unveiling Jane Austen Statue / Plinth General Public Connecting to Sydney Gardens for international Heritage will be Community Ranger x 2 days End of Yr 2 or start of Yr People will New audiences understanding wider heritage of - Special readings in the park of Jane Austen works and dedicated tour of Sydney Gardens Visitors and Tourists, including international audiences and increasing visitor reach, and marking Jane better Jane Austen Society 3, depending on Volunteers have a valuable experience as have learnt Sydney Gardens PG 8 Ref AD 1.1 Interpretation Plan audience Austen heritage in Sydney Gardens and context of the interpreted Walk / Talk leader completion of Long Seat readers about heritage Ref S2 a.1 Sydney Gardens Gazetteer Park users Pleasure Garden and explained Volunteer Readers x 7 and installation Young people (through local schools) learn Increased social media traction (by 20% about Jane Austen's work on the day)

Heritage will be Diana White Jane Austen Society to better write interpretation Increase visitor engagement General Public Jane Austen Trail in Sydney Gardens interpreted 100 people download PDF within 2 Visitors and Tourists (International and People will Prepare and write Yr 1 - Printed leaflet and downloadable PDF created about Jane Austen and Sydney Gardens Learning about Jane Austen in Sydney Gardens for and explained Community Ranger x 2 days New audiences understanding wider heritage of months of launch regional) have learnt Ready to launch / print PG 9 Ref AD 1.1 Interpretation Plan international audiences and increasing visitor reach Sydney Gardens Park users about heritage for end of Yr 2 Ref S2 a.1 Sydney Gardens Gazetteer Heritage will be Graphic designer x 2 days: £500 Students identified / Print: £100 Young people learn about Jane Austen's work recorded People will have learnt Most of costs to be covered by Roman about heritage Number of participants (aim 300) Encouraging engagement with a hidden / little explored Baths incl. marketing element of SG heritage: Roman Cemetery, Horse's Head More people Standard event cost Yr 1: To coincide with the Feedback survey with participants and Families from the local area - Roman Baths People will Enjoyment of participants plus locating Roman history of the area Heritage will be and a wider Possible project contribution to printing Festival of Archaeology in audience Archaeology Day usual audience for events have had an better range of of cut-out July 2019 Co-host Roman archaeology day in the park with Romans Baths outreach team in July 2019 Park users enjoyable New park users PG 10 Bringing heritage to life in the park - promoting SG as a interpreted people will Conversations with participants Ref SD 8 Archaeology Report Tourists and visitors experience venue for future events and explained have engaged Community Ranger x 3 days for (Organisation already in Young people and students New engagement with Roman with heritage organisation and delivery progress) Feedback invited from visiting staff People will heritage/archaeology by audience have Volunteers x 6 volunteered time

Yr 1: plan area to be used for Labyrinth, and People will B&NES Parks Service equipment to set research sustainability have out and mow Mown grass Labyrinth recreated on upper lawn Recreating the historic Labyrinth Volunteers and visitors will learn about the heritage of and planned developed in Sydney Gardens the park Heritage will be maintenance schedule Conversational feedback from volunteers skills Volunteers Setting out the grass mown Labyrinth with volunteers at the top of the park between Bothy and Tennis General Public better 10 volunteers engaged in setting out grass Courts, with Georgian Reservoir as one of the 'end points' of maze Friends of Sydney Gardens Volunteers and visitors will directly contribute to re- interpreted Yr 2: set out on upper Successful recreation of Labyrinth People will Project Manager x 3 days total Labyrinth Mowing in the Labyrinth design Park users introducing a lost feature of the Pleasure Garden and explained lawn near Georgian have PG 11 Creating an ongoing maintenance programme which includes volunteers Residents Reservoir, and mow into Maintenance of Labyrinth through Yr3 volunteered Community Ranger: 2 days total 6 volunteers undertake maintenance Students Creates a natural play and relaxation area for people of Heritage will be grass with establishment of management plan time programme Connecting the Grotto in Bath Spa Hotel Grounds with Sydney Gardens Labyrinth all ages to engage in heritage identified/ Horticulture Participation Officer: 8 days recorded Yr 3: maintenance of People will total Annual ongoing maintenance programme and Ref Training T2 Labyrinth undertaken by have learnt regime established volunteers working with about heritage Bath Spa Hotel Hort Part Officer

Yr 1: plan how to create 3 Ponies on the Ride (climbable figures x 3) People will learn about heritage connected to wider People will x climbable pony figures historical contexts have had an More people Project Manager x 2 days total 20% of audience at launch learn about heritage Installing (inc painting / weatherproofing and launching the 'Ponies on the Ride' General Public Heritage will be enjoyable and a wider Yr 2: design / source / of the park in relation to horses Photos posted on social media (aim for 50 Children & Families People will learn about history of horses in the park and better experience range of Community Ranger: 2 days total purchase in first month of opening) using Hashtag PG 12 Bathwick / Widcombe Junior Schools 'name the ponies' competition Park users city of Bath interpreted people will 3 climbable pony figures (of different sizes) are SydneyPoniesOnTheRide and explained People will have engaged Bathwick or Widcombe Primary Schools End of Yr 2: install and installed on The Ride Ref AD 1.1 Interpretation Plan People will understand their heritage with new have learnt with heritage test, including weather Ref S2 a.1 Sydney Gardens Gazetteer perspectives about heritage proofing / painting

Hidden History' Talks Programme General Public People will learn about heritage Invited guest speakers and presenters - - builds out from highly successful 'Bath Slavery and Memoryscape' talk hosted in Development Phase More people, Holburne Museum visitors one joint programmed talk per annually Conversational feedback - adventurous and expansive content focusing on social and lived heritage in relation to contemporary People will and a wider Attendance Park Users People will learn about broader contexts of the heritage Heritage will be culture have changed range of Yr 1, Yr 2 and Yr 3: one Students that influence the park across time identified/ Community Ranger x 2 days per year: 6 Questionnaire to audience at event PG 13 - focusing on diversifying heritage narratives their attitudes people will Talk p/ a 20% of visitors new to Sydney Gardens or the Tourists and visitors recorded days (would also affect what topics would be - expands understanding of Bath as a connected place globally and geographically / behaviour have engaged Holburne Museum Artists People will understand their heritage with new programmed) with heritage Historians perspectives Holburne Museum Curation Team Build on partnership with Holburne Museum for hosting

People will learn about heritage connected to wider historical contexts More people, Attendance General Public Guest researcher and walk leader People will and a wider Hidden History' Tour of Sydney Gardens and neighbourhood Holburne Museum visitors Heritage will Conversational feedback People will learn about historical contexts that influence have changed range of Yr 1, Yr 2 and Yr 3: one 20% of visitors new to Sydney Gardens - partner with Sweet Waters Walk Leader Richard White to lead walk that connects Sydney Gardens to Park Users be identified/ Community Ranger x 1 days PG 14 the Gardens across time their attitudes people will walk p / a neighbouring area and the social and economic history of Bath Students recorded Questionnaire to audience / behaviour have engaged 50% of visitors learn something new about Tourists and visitors Bathscape Walking Festival opportunity People will understand their heritage with new with heritage heritage perspectives

Sydney Gardens Trail Interpretation - Designed and printed leaflet and downloadable PDFs created about heritage of Sydney Gardens People will focusing on Georgian Pleasure Garden to include Brunel's Railway, Kennet & Avon Canal, Georgian People will learn about heritage Volunteer writers x 3 have Reservoir, bridges, features, Labyrinth, Ancient Trees: General Public 1000 downloads over first summer of trails Heritage will be volunteered Number of downloads over 6 months Holburne Museum visitors People will learn about broader contexts of the heritage Community Ranger: 3 days Yr 1: develop and write being launched better time 3 different downloadable PDFs in total, promoted as a series of 4 inc Jane Austen Trail): Trees, Transport Park Users that influence the park across time Y 2 - 3: design and PG 15 interpreted Online survey re what audiences have and Routes, Georgian Pleasure Gardens Students Freelance Designer publish New audiences understanding wider heritage of and explained People will learnt Tourists and visitors People will understand their heritage with new Sydney Gardens have learnt Sydney Gardens logo designed at start of this activity perspectives about heritage Ref AD 1.1 Interpretation Plan Ref S2 a.1 Sydney Gardens Gazetteer People will People will learn about heritage FoSG Volunteers have learnt More people 80% Full Attendance of tours Historic Tours' of Sydney Gardens General Public Heritage will be about heritage and a wider - 15 tours per year led by volunteers from Friends of Sydney Gardens for visitors, tourists = total of 45 Holburne Museum visitors People will learn in more detail about specific aspects of Historic Walk Leader better range of Yr 1, Yr 2 and Yr 3: one 25% of visitors new to Sydney Gardens Surveys for participants after selected tours over three years) Park Users history in the Gardens across time PG 16 interpreted People will people will Tour p/ a tours - 3 tours / talks per year led by specialist historian on specific historical aspects of the park Students Community Ranger x 4 days and explained have have engaged 70% of visitors learn something new about Tourists and Visitors People will understand their heritage with new volunteered with heritage heritage of the Gardens perspectives Bathscape Walking Festival opportunity time

FoSG Volunteers to research and People will develop system for notification and run have General Public off their website, as well as B&NES, as More people engage with history of the railway through developed Steam Train Celebrations and public timetables Holburne Museum visitors Heritage will be well as means of distribution to Age UK Feedback from visitors and participants about Sydney Gardens skills Positive feedback from users re now - establishing a system for public notification of steam trains passing through Sydney Gardens Park Users better Bath and Bath Dementia AA notification system Yr 1 knowing when steam trains coming PG 17 - establishing a communication portal for links between Brunel's work and Sydney Gardens Families interpreted More people will know about and come to see the steam People will through SG Older people and explained Assistant Designer for online Feedback from Age UK Bath trains passing through have Tourists and Visitors notification system volunteered time Community Ranger x 2 days

People will Stone Conservation People will learn about the stone conservation in the have 20 people engaging with practical conservation General Public park developed 3 x events and activities in the park relating to Stone Conservation (building on trialled event in Dev Heritage will be Stone Conservation Team to lead In coordination with activity Visitors and Tourists skills Phase) identified/reco activity building and restoration Bath Universities and Colleges and Stone People will understand how the built heritage has Feedback forms post events / activities PG 18 - active participation through volunteering rded programme, probably New skills learnt Conservation Courses changed over time People will - professional skill share re professional career paths Community Ranger x 2 days end of Yr 1, and 3 x Yr 2 Park users have - public talk and demonstration Heritage of the park understood People will volunteer their time and develop skills volunteered Ref SD 1.5 SG Condition and Rec - SS Built Heritage Assets time

Community Archaeology Discovery Days People will 3 x events and activities in the park relating to working on specific areas of the park requiring further have learnt investigation and documentation in 3 areas about heritage Bath & Cammerton Archaeology Society 15 new volunteers engaging with practical Ruin (2) and Depot (3) People will learn in detail about particular aspects of B&NES Council Archaeology Officer conservation activity Georgian Reservoir heritage in the park People will Kirsten Elliott Bath Universities Conservation Courses Rockery (6) Heritage will be have 30 people taking part / volunteering in activity Park users Areas 5, 6, 7 are areas of interest) People will volunteer their time identified / volunteered Community Ranger x 5 days Yr 1, Yr 2 Feedback forms post activity PG 19 Residents interested in local history recorded time New skills learnt Students - active participation through volunteering People will understand their heritage with new Comms & Participation Intern Young people - professional skill share re professional career paths perspectives People will Heritage of the park revealed and new heritage Priority Audiences - detailed investigation of sites including Rockery, Labyrinth and Grotto (in Bath Spa Hotel), Ruin (in Depot have External consultant / surveyor identified and documented Area) developed Ref SD 8 Archaeology Report skills

Discovering and documenting Social & Cultural Heritage of the Pleasure Garden 4 x activities investigating hidden heritage in the gardens and extending archive, knowledge and People will understanding of the social history of the Gardens: Entertainments, Supper boxes, Social Breakfasts, The Heritage will be Volunteers x 8 per session People will learn about heritage have Ride, Toilets, and the designs of Adult Swings in relation to Merlins Swing (used to be at centre of better 10 volunteers engaged in process of research Heritage Students at Bath Spa developed Labyrinth), Georgian life, pleasure and leisure across time of the park interpreted Historian & Archaeologist Historians People will learn in more detail about specific aspects of skills and explained (sometimes working as volunteers) New knowledge gained re social history of the Park Users history in the Gardens across time Yr 1, Yr 2 Feedback forms post activity PG 20 Volunteer group would contribute knowledge to archive and trail leaflets and to the Temple of Minerva Park Students People will 'frieze'. Heritage will be Community Ranger x 4 days Priority Audiences People will understand their heritage with new have Led by Project Team with historians identified/ 10 new volunteers perspectives volunteered recorded time Research contributes to the FoSG and Volunteer Talks and Tours of Gardens (PG 16) Ref S2a.1 Sydney Gardens Gazetteer

People will have learnt People will learn about the Georgian Reservoir about heritage 7 volunteers engaging with practical Georgian Reservoir Talk and Tour General Public conservation and archaeology activity People will understand how the built heritage has People will Visitors and Tourists 3 x events and activities in the park relating to Georgian Reservoir: changed over time Heritage will be have Specialist historian In coordination with Bath Universities Conservation Courses New skills learnt - active participation through volunteering in clearing the area around entrances to Reservoir identified / volunteered building and restoration Feedback forms post activity PG 21 Park users - professional skill share re restoration People will volunteer their time recorded time Community Ranger x 3 days programme: Yr 1 / Yr2 Residents interested in local history Heritage of the park understood - talk and tour of site Young people People will understand their heritage with new People will 5 new volunteers perspectives have developed skills People will learn a new skill People will 7 volunteers engaging with practical Monoprinting from the Telltale Tiles People will create a symbol of Sydney Gardens to wear have learnt More people conservation and archaeology activity General Public or take home with them Heritage will be about heritage and a wider Artist (monoprint specialist) In coordination with 6 x events in the park teaching people how to monoprint onto t-shirts, cloth, tote bags and fabric using Visitors and Tourists better range of New skills learnt building and restoration Feedback forms post activity PG 22 the raised brass surfaces of the 'Tell Tale Tiles' - the interpretation symbols at each entrance to the park Young People The heritage of the park is used to create contemporary interpreted People will people will Community Ranger x 2 days programme: Yr 1 / Yr2 Priority Audiences designs and explained have have engaged Heritage of the park understood Ref AD 1.1 Interpretation Plan developed with heritage The public can use the park to create a souvenir to take skills 5 new volunteers away

The 'Garden Bandstand' People will Annual summer short programme of music concerts in different temporary 'bandstands' in the park, Small PA / amplification have learnt using the Loggia, Temple of Minerva about heritage - duets and quartets Encouraging high quality live artistic performance in the Community Ranger x 8 days Park users - young people's music public green space More people Popularity with public, esp 'through routers' Through routers invited to pause People will Yr 1, Yr 2, Yr 3 Conversation with participants and - acoustic sets and a wider Partner facilitators - Bath Studio College Visitors have had an 4 lunchtime duet / audience - programmed as unique events or as part of other significant events in the park Enabling platform for new talent range of Positive experience of musicians Young people enjoyable quartet concerts per year PG 23 people will Local youth and church choirs Musicians experience on a Saturday or Sunday Sample audience survey to meet targets Giving young people a platform to perform and reach new audiences Enabling small scale daytime entertainment have engaged Greater range and diversity of people brought College and University Music Courses through summer holiday of Outcome 11 Music and mental health explored with heritage Classical Quartets into the park as performers and audience Priority Audiences People will To be programmed in relation to partner organisations: Bath College, Holburne etc Young people have a platform for their music have Ref SD2.12 Report: barriers to participation for children and families Young musicians / buskers volunteered time

Fiscal success re profit making capacity B&NES Council Events Team Sustainability of the event re organisation and Annual Food and Artisan Market funds raised - Run in partnership with Holburne Museum in relation to the theme of exhibition and public programme The park as a host for food, drink and arts and crafts People will Quality of food stalls General Public Our local B&NES Parks e.g. Japanese Tokyo Olympics in 2020 have had an Visitors and Tourists economy will Holburne Museum Yr 2 & 3 No cost to park except Community Ranger time PG 24 - Celebrating local independent food providers Raising the profile of the park as a space for food and enjoyable Feedback from stallholders wanting to Park users be boosted to organise - giving a platform to nursery and garden suppliers 'market' type activity experience come again Community Ranger x 6 days - art and craft stalls Profit coming back to B&NES & Holburne Popularity with public

High quality online documentation of Documentation of the restoration project People will Cameraperson for timelapses and drone restoration project x 6 works hosted on project - mapping the restoration project through word, sound and image creating a written and digital image Heritage will be FoSG Archive created by multiple voices have imagery over 3 years x 6 events or website archive better More people Volunteers developed significant moments Archive of restoration project completed - a series of podcasts created by volunteers and students: lived social history of the park from 1950s to interpreted and a wider Park users Training for volunteers skills participants up for skills 10 podcasts created about: and available to the public by the end of current and explained range of Remote visitors documentation and archiving Volunteers trained to create media Yr 1, Yr 2, Yr 3 oral history 2021 PG 25 - about the restoration of the park and heritage discoveries people will Students and young people People will heritage discoveries - creating some time-lapse recordings of works in the park using a fixed point camera and moving image Heritage will be have engaged Older people Multimedia archive made of the 3 year Parks for People have Community Ranger x 10 days the restoration project works as a result of training Ref Training 7 - 9 identified / with heritage Priority Audiences Project volunteered - submission of restoration project documentation to Bath Record Office recorded time Comms & Participation Intern Still and moving image media created fro website, online sharing and social media

Visitors and Tourists Games in the park available on web-based free to access People will Park users Community Ranger x 6 days Creation of material for digital interpretation platform Digital interpretation of the park accessible to park users have Users downloading Sprytar (or other digital Families - 2 x local schools generating games and content and remotely developed platform) for use in Sydney Gardens Sample survey though digital platform to Older people Heritage will be SPRYTAR or other digital platform, but - Bath Spa University digital design students involved in generating content skills users Remote visitors better avoiding specific App, prioritising web - Bath Spa Heritage Students and other volunteers developing written content Events booking system integrated for future Yr 2, Yr 3 New audiences visiting Sydney Gardens PG 26 Students and young people interpreted based, free at point of access for user - Information and assistance for people with needs and disabilities sustainability People will Collection of statistical evidence from Back Hacked and explained (providing user has data allowance) have Social media traction through increased digital platform Access groups All information about the park in one place, including volunteered Hashtagging Bath DAA Comms & Participation Intern Changing Places info, Dementia Friendly info etc time Age UK Bath

All information about the park in one place Visitors and Tourists Sydney Gardens project website and social media platforms Park users Clear and accessible information for all park users - Microsite developed within B&NES Council system to exist sustainably with Parks Service & Heritage Community Ranger x 6 days Families More people Parks portfolio Increase online audience by over 100% year on Older people Hosts downloadable trails and learning resources Heritage will be and a wider - Develop and extend existing website B&NES CIS Team year over the project (from Development Collection of statistical evidence from Remote visitors better range of - in house upgraded design for heritage stories, media, social media platform connectivity and for event Yr 1, 2 & 3 Phase) digital platforms (as we have done PG 27 Students and young people Information re Changing Places, Dementia Friendly, and interpreted people will and activity booking Comms & Participation Intern through Development Phase) Back Hacked access for all and explained have engaged - Promotion of HLF Parks for People funding Engage and provide for priority audiences Access groups with heritage FoSG Volunteers Bath DAA Information and booking platform for events SD 2.17 Communications Strategy Age UK Bath Volunteering opportunities and policies

Volunteers understand the process of organising a small People will Training: 6 volunteers able to understand how to Friends of Sydney Gardens and new scale activity in the park have Evaluation of learning on completion of Running small scale events and activities in Sydney Gardens (Ref Community Day PG 1 & 2, Garden B&NES Events Team Yr 1 and Yr 2 organise and safely run a small scale activity in T1 volunteers developed training Bandstand PG 23 and other events) the park Volunteers are enabled to organise small scale activities skills Volunteers understand how to set up and run a Comms & Participation Intern Crowdfunding campaign People will Training: Friends of Sydney Gardens and new have 6 volunteers able to understand how to set up Evaluation of learning on completion of Invited guest presenter Yr 1 T2 Running a Crowdfunding Campaign (Ref PG 7 Jane Austen Statue) volunteers Volunteers are enabled to organise and run a developed and run a Crowdfunding Campaign training Crowdfunding campaign, and assist on the Jane Austen skills Online resources Statue Crowdfund & Dog Poo Biodigester Crowdfund

Sydney Gardens Project Team and Volunteers understand the process of marking out a Heritage will be People will Heritage Parks Team Training: Friends of Sydney Gardens and new pattern on grass better have Deliver in Yr 1 or start of 10 volunteers able to set out and mark up Evaluation of learning on completion of Setting out a pattern design on the ground: marking out the historic Labyrinth at the top of the park (Ref T3 volunteers interpreted developed Community Ranger x 1 day Yr 2 design on ground training PG 11) Volunteers learn about the historic Labyrinth heritage and explained skills Horticultural Participation Officer

9 x Volunteers 6 volunteers trained to give tours of Sydney Volunteers will feel more confident about structuring a Heritage will be People will 2 x half day each: 1 day total Gardens Training: guided tour for people of different ages and abilities and better have Evaluation of learning on completion of Friends of Sydney Gardens and volunteers Deliver in Yr 1 & Yr 2 T4 Leading walks and talks in and about Sydney Gardens for the public (Ref PG 16) using associated equipment eg iPad to accompany, and interpreted developed External trainers for tour guiding: 2 days training 3 volunteers trained to lead wildlife or tree to accommodate those with diverse abilities and explained skills total walks

External Trainer x 5 days @ 250 p/d People will (£125 per session x 10 sessions (not have More people Participants will gain a basic understanding of designing schools) Light sculptures created for Illuminations launch Volunteers, priority audiences and older developed and a wider and creating simple light sculptures for a public event event Training: peoples groups (Not schools, as schools skills range of Evaluation of learning on completion of T5 Materials from Illuminations Launch Yr 2 and Yr 3 Creating simple temporary light sculptures (Ref Illuminations Launch Event PG 3) covered by Illuminations Launch Event people will training Contributing to a major public entertainment event in Event budget People across age and ability involved including Budget) People will have engaged Bath 10 light works made by Priority Audiences learn about with heritage Community Ranger x 3 days heritage

Wider range of people have understanding of More people heritage of the park in relation to Stone Heritage will be People will and a wider Volunteers and participants will gain practical Training and session leaders fees part of Conservation and have practically assisted on Training: Volunteers and students better have range of Evaluation of learning on completion of understanding and knowledge of stone conservation restoration contracts x 6 half day Yr 1-2 conservation projects to restore the park T6 Stone Conservation on historic buildings in the park: Loggia and Temple of Minerva (Ref PG 18) Priority Audiences interpreted developed people will training relevant to built heritage in Sydney Gardens sessions and explained skills have engaged 20 volunteers participate in practical stone with heritage conservation tasks

Wider range of people have understanding of More people heritage of the park in relation to Ironwork Volunteers and participants will gain practical Heritage will be People will and a wider Training and session leaders fees part of conservation, and have practically assisted on Training: Volunteers and students understanding and knowledge of iron work conservation better have range of Evaluation of learning on completion of restoration contracts x 4 half day Yr 1 -2 conservation projects to restore iron structures T7 Conservation of Ironwork: Edwardian Toilets (Ref Conservation Management Plan S 2a) Priority Audiences relevant to built heritage in Sydney Gardens, specifically interpreted developed people will training sessions in relation to Edwardian Toilets and explained skills have engaged 10 volunteers participate in practical ironwork with heritage tasks

New skills acquired in learning to make a podcast: 10 volunteers trained in how to create a Heritage will be New volunteers recording audio, editing and production to online podcast identified / dissemination recorded People will Set up in Yr 1 Training: Young people, students One hour of high quality audio content created have External Trainer x 3 days Deliver in Yr 2 an Evaluation of learning on completion of Creating a podcast, and generating audio material for use in digital form about the built and natural Audio material generated for online and digital for online broadcast about the built and natural T8 Heritage will be developed continuing through Yr 3 training heritage of Sydney Gardens (Ref PG 25) Older people platforms. heritage of the Gardens better skills Community Ranger x 2 days p/a as necessary interpreted Priority Audiences Documentation of the park restoration project 6 volunteers trained and able to document the and explained park restoration through audio recording

Friends of Sydney Gardens and new People will 10 volunteers trained in generating high quality Training: volunteers Preparing high quality content for online platforms of have Set up in Yr 2 for Yr 3 content online platform about the built and Evaluation of learning on completion of External Trainer x 2 days T9 Digital masterclass in 'Know Your Place' and generating content for digital platforms (Ref PG 25) high quality including games and activities developed delivery natural heritage of the Gardens training Young people and students skills Community Ranger x 1 day

New skills acquired in learning to make digital still and Friends of Sydney Gardens moving images 10 volunteers trained in generating high quality People will still and moving images about the built and Training: New volunteers External Trainer x 3 days @£350 p/d Documentation of the restoration have natural heritage of the Gardens Evaluation of learning on completion of Digital masterclass in digital photography (still and moving image) on composition and using images to Yr 1 - Yr 2 T10 developed training document events (Ref PG 25) Young people and students Community Ranger x 2 days Generating short moving image documentation of park skills 6 volunteers trained and able to document the restoration, of events and activities park restoration Priority Audiences

Community Ranger total days: 118 Communiti PEOPLE & THE PARK: Participation for all, ages, for all abilities, play, socialise, community cohesion. Art; Experience; Learning; Interpretation. Heritage People es

Share The Space Soapbox - how can we all share the park? in partnership with Canal & River Trust B&NES Officers from Access and Public - Host a 'round table' soapbox in the park to address the issue of how we share public space, and to People of all abilities enabled to use the park Health, Highways and Environment, address behaviour change in public space, with cyclists, wheelchair users, dogwalkers, pedestrians, Cycling, Infrastructure Diversity of voices on the 'soapbox': 8 different parents, scooters, skateboarders, commuters, those with dementia Public and park users of all ages Community and social cohesion Our People will Canal and River Trust points of view / need - hear 4 minute representations from diversity of 'reps' community will Questionnaire to participants of the event have changed Holburne Museum - host discussion Defined user groups Democracy in action be a better Yr 1 April / May PP 1 their attitudes Dementia Action Alliance Good attendance from residents and park - plan and make allowances place to live, Impact on inclusive design in the park / behaviour Bath Hacked users: 50 people of all ages and abilities - practical outcomes Priority Audiences Better representation work or visit Bathwick School attending - a park 'table of representatives' to communicate and check on route and pathways. and to volunteer Cycle Bath practically Diverse voices around the table Ref SD 2.6 Disability & Access Report Community Ranger x 2 days Ref SD 2.16 FoSG Likes & Dislikes

Defined user groups Diversity and Inclusivity: Share The Space Research Group Making the park accessible and as user friendly as - bring together diversity of park users: visually impaired, hard-of-hearing, carers of people with Bath Hacked 6 representatives involved from different possible Our Park inclusivity designer fee to facilitate dementia, wheelchair users, those with challenges such as autism. People will abilities / needs: visually impaired, hard of community will - research and test out the designs and plans for the park re access, routes, levels and trails over 2 Priority Audiences have changed hearing, person with dementia, person with Detailed research report identifying Ensuring participation runs through all levels of design be a better Canal + River Trust Yr 1 and Yr 2 PP 2 sessions / meetings their attitudes autism, person with limited mobility and specific needs and planning place to live, - confirm access re Changing Places Toilet in Sydney Gardens Disability Support Groups Bath / behaviour wheelchair user work or visit Community Ranger x 2 days Ref SD 2.6 Disability & Access Report Establishing user system for Changing Places Toilet Red Activity Plan Reports Appendices SD 2.12 & SD 2.13 Barriers to participation Age UK Bath

Councillors from across Bath & NE Somerset Tour for Councillors & local businesses Raising the profile of the park within Bath and across - Project Team hosting a tour for councillors to ensure full support from Council and Councillors during Community Ranger x 1 day 7 Councillors Collected comments assembled from Businesses with a radius of a 10 minute walk region People will Delivery, and publicising the park and our work Project Manager Yr 1 Summer 13 representatives from local businesses participants with survey as to how we can PP 3 to Sydney Gardens have learnt - Invite all neighbouring businesses to hear about events and activities to ensure opportunities for FoSG Committee connect further Greater support and publicity for the HLF project about heritage connectivity are made

Creating a Code of Conduct about Homelessness and the park Pocket sized information card for volunteers Partnering with agencies to discuss Julian House Hostel Services Volunteers and FoSG have structure for responding to Visiting presenter from another urban and FoSG and Parks Service Meetings attracting key agencies inc Meeting with Homeless people to determine need and contexts B&NES Parks Service homelessness in the park People will park who deal with this issue e.g. Tower B&NES, Julian House Creating a code of conduct in relation to homelessness and substance abuse in the park: health and Other Bath based charities supporting people have changed Hamlets Cemetery Park Yr 1 - Yr 2 Agreed Code of Conduct between volunteers, PP 4 safety for volunteers and park users without homes / vulnerable to homelessness B&NES Parks networking with agencies their attitudes B&NES Parks and Julian House Feedback re information card after 12 Creating a pocket sized information card re what to do, how to respond, and who to contact: 2 x Julian House clients attending / behaviour Community Ranger x 3 days months safeguarding, signposting Clear strategy for dealing with complexity 3 meetings over Yr 1 -2

More people and a wider range of Dementia Friendly testing out in Sydney Gardens people will Visiting presenter who has established - analysis of design plans and way marking People with Dementia and their carers have engaged knowledge in establishing dementia Making Sydney Gardens Bath's first Dementia Survey re usage of park by those living - developing targeted activities for this group Making Sydney Gardens Bath's first Dementia Friendly DAA Bath with heritage friendly parks and activities Yr 1, Yr 2 Friendly Park using innovative and inspiring with dementia and their carers at end of PP 5 - 3 meetings over 18 months Park Age UK Bath users Our design and waymarking project community will Community Ranger x 2 days Ref SD 2.6 Disability & Access Report be a better place to live, etc

People will 75 children and families attending each session After school play sessions for children and young people For young people, children and families within Community Play provider have learnt a 10-15 walk of SG, for local schools, Weekly sessions from about heritage 20 new families and children attending per 2 x Community Play Rangers for weekly 2 hour session after school in the park particularly Widcombe and Dolemeads area, 2 x Community Play Rangers (inc all April to September in Yr 1 session Wide games / Team / Group games toddler and parent groups, parent and Identifies Sydney Gardens as a place for play materials, insurance etc) and organised according Feedback form at selected activities PP 6 People will Sessions drawn on heritage of the park for themes and ideas resident groups to park restoration in Yr 2 have had an Broad catchment area of engagement attracting Community Ranger x 2 days p/a and Yr 3 enjoyable children and families from Widcombe, Snowhill, Ref SD2.12 Report: barriers to participation for children and families Priority Audiences organisation = 6 days total experience Bathwick, and Bath Home Educated children Community Play Day for all ages For young people, children and families within 75 children and families attending each session - games a 10-15 walk of SG, for local schools, 1 x Annual Play day in Open access play - team events particularly Widcombe and Dolemeads area, People will Community Play Provider (inc all Easter Holidays or 20 new families and children attending per - play connecting to the heritage of the park ( the Cascade, Sham Castle) toddler and parent groups, parent and have had an materials, insurance etc) Summer Holidays in Yr 1 session Social cohesion Feedback form after activity PP 7 - play in the whole park resident groups enjoyable & Yr 2 with 2 x - All comers Rounders Picnic experience Community Ranger x 3 days Community Play Days in Broad catchment area of engagement attracting Provides 'drop-in' play environment Ref SD2.12 Report: barriers to participation for children and families For families in Bath and surrounding towns Yr 3 children and families from Widcombe, Snowhill, Ref SD 2.13 Report: barriers to participation for older people Priority Audiences Bathwick, and Bath Home Educated children

Enabling learning in the park that connects to the Led learning sessions for schools and home educators national curriculum External Artist Educator x 3 days p/a People will - for local and visiting school groups, home educators, youth organisations plus 1 day planning plus 1 day assisting Bathwick Primary have learnt More people Schools and learning groups engaged - led by an artist - educator Capitalises on 'outdoor classroom' for learning writing downloadable resources Widcombe Junior about heritage and a wider - co-creating downloadable resources with artist - educator to focus on specific aspects of history of the Bath Home Educators range of Yr 1, Yr 2, Yr 3 All sessions available taken up gardens connecting to the curriculum: Trees, Transport, The Georgian Gardens Sites the park as a place to learn across built and natural Half the sessions run in partnership with Questionnaire to schools and children PP 8 King Edwards Junior People will people will - Learning sessions run over 3 years heritage Holburne Education Team (part of HM Scouts & Guides have had an have engaged Positive feedback from schools and participants - run in partnership with Holburne Museum costs) Schools in Bath enjoyable with heritage post sessions Connects the Gardens and Museum together experience Ref: Appendix SD 2.11 Community Ranger x 10 days

Learning Activity Sheets (Printed and Downloadable PDFs) produced for self-led school, independent and family self-led visits to the park Bathwick Primary Enabling learning in the park that connects to the External Artist Educator x 5 days People will - Trees in the park - Witness' / Ancient tree and identifying them Widcombe Junior national curriculum have Quality of production of Saddle Bags - Boats and Trains: Rennie and Brunel Bath Home Educators Graphic Designer developed Yr 2, Yr 3 20 downloads per month of learning resources - Time Travel through a Maze across the last 200 years King Edwards Junior Creates an 'outdoor classroom' for learning skills 'Saddle Bags ready for post production Questionnaire to visiting self led groups Scouts / Guides Community Ranger x 4 days PP 9 school self led visits by Yr Design and production of 'Saddle Bags' for participating school groups which have lenses, magnifiers, art Local nursery schools Sites the park as a place to learn across built and natural People will 3 4 self led school visits to the park by young Response card inside Saddle Bag for materials, listening devices, tools, and activity sheets in them for self led visits (given to the Holburne Families heritage Designer for Saddle Bags: £300 have learnt peoples groups, by end of Yr 3 children to give a comment after the project for continuity) Visitors Production and purchase of Saddle Bags about heritage Women's Refuge Connects the Gardens and Museum together and contents: £400 Ref SD2.11 Report: Learning & Education Resourcing

People will have had an Wild Play Leaders Wild Play and Trees Scouts and Guides Children and young people will learn about nature enjoyable 8 children or tots attending sessions 15 x sessions in the park @ £150 per 1.5 - Led sessions in summer in wild play, nature play and trees Nursery Schools experience hour session Yr 1, Yr 2, Yr 3 Feedback form at selected activities PP 10 - Nature Tots (aged under 5) Wild Play Children and young people will learn about the park and Children coming from Snowhill/Widcombe and Forest school the natural heritage of the gardens People will Dolemeads postcodes Community Ranger x 3 days have learnt about heritage

Children People will New parks users participating in activities and Teenagers Sports and exercise coaching: have had an training Adults - Table Tennis for older people session and Table Tennis Tournament enjoyable Sport leaders / activity organisers Record of participation on formal play Older people Outdoor exercise in a safe and friendly environment - Basketball and table tennis for younger people experience Dementia Friendly Session leaders: 12 Older people participating sessions People with dementia - Measured mile and measured distance introductory sessions sessions p/a Yr 3 Visitor observation surveys PP 11 People with mobility issues Improving physical skills for physical wellbeing and People will People with dementia and their carers Occasional feedback forms and online Mental health and wellbeing groups and enjoyment through play and sports Ref SD2.12 Report: barriers to participation for children and families have participating questionnaire voluntary organisations Ref SD 2.13 Report: barriers to participation for older people developed Park users skills Community Ranger x 2 days Teenagers taking up new sport / game activity

Teenagers People will Adults have had an Tai Chi in the Park Older people enjoyable - Weekly sessions in the park with leader External Trainer @ £100 per session People with dementia experience Yr 1 funded, Yr 2 partly Record of participation - One hour sessions on the weekend over 2 months in the summer to establish a group Outdoor exercise improving mental and physical well Regular sustaining group of 10 people who drop People with mobility issues funded and then self Occasional feedback forms and online PP 12 being Community Ranger x 2 days in for sessions Mental health and wellbeing groups and People will sustaining questionnaire Ref SD 2.13 Report: barriers to participation for older people voluntary organisations have Age UK Bath Park users developed FoSG skills

Teenagers People will Bi-monthly sessions for up to 12 people at a Mindfulness Walks in the Park Adults have had an time from Spring to Autumn in the park (one at - Bi-monthly sessions for up to 12 people at a time from Spring to Autumn in the park (one at weekend Older people enjoyable External Trainer @ £100 per session weekend per month, and one on weekday per per month, and one on weekday per month from April - September People with dementia experience Yr 1 funded, Yr 2 partly Record of participation month from April - September - led by experienced Mindfulness Leader People with mobility issues Exercise improving mental and physical well being funded and then self Occasional feedback forms and online PP 13 Bathscape Walking Festival opportunity Mental health and wellbeing groups and People will sustaining questionnaire Sustaining group of regular participants across voluntary organisations have Community Ranger x 2 days age and ability Ref SD 2.13 Report: barriers to participation for older people Park users developed FoSG skills Older people: Series of participatory sessions programmed in the park People will External session leaders - weekly sessions for over 55s through the summer have had an Sessions are well attended Improving social cohesion - rotating content: seated exercise, learn ping pong or petanque, socialising, Mindfulness, Talk or Tour Older people enjoyable Record of participation Volunteer session or activity leaders - 20 week programme per year over Delivery Phase (with breaks) People with dementia and their carers experience Participants find the sessions and activities Occasional feedback forms Improving mental and physical well being Yr 1, Yr 2, Yr 3 PP 14 - Look at creating Men's Shed / Women's Shed in The Bothy, and use Bothy as interim gathering and People with mobility issues beneficial Occasional feedback requests to partner Bathscape Walking Festival opportunity meeting point until Kiosk built People will organisations Addressing loneliness have learnt Participants will have learnt about heritage Community Ranger x 6 days Ref SD 2.13 Report: barriers to participation for older people about heritage

People will have had an Community Ranger with FoSG Sessions are well attended Older people day care 'trips out' to Sydney Gardens enjoyable Volunteers x 3 sessions Age UK Day Centre Participants - people aged Record of participation - collaborating with Age UK Bath to host 2 x sessions per year for their day care 'trip out' sessions for up experience Session leader x 3 sessions 70+ Park as a place to host people who need to be outside Participants find the sessions and activities Occasional feedback forms to 20 people to visit the park. Yr 1, Yr 2, Yr 3 PP 15 but cannot get there by themselves beneficial Occasional feedback requests to partner People will Community Ranger x 4 days Those with mobility issues organisations Ref SD 2.13 Report: barriers to participation for older people have Participants will have learnt about heritage developed Age UK Bath skills

Park users with additional needs: Disabled, Dementia Friendly & Autism Friendly Map and Infographic People will of Sydney Gardens have had an Using green space for well being and socialising Our Designer Positive feedback from users - downloadable and printed map and plan of Sydney Gardens and full details of facilities for users with enjoyable Map / Infographic downloaded and used People with Dementia and their carers community will additional needs experience Reducing isolation be a better Disabled user groups End of Year 2 - early Yr 3 Online survey for completion PP 16 - details of Changing Places facility and Dementia Friendly circular walk Park users with disabilities across spectrum People with additional needs place to live, - things to see and do People will engaged with input into map Providing access to green space for all users work or visit Community Ranger x 2 days Conversational feedback - Map and infographic info prepared during PP2 & PP5 have learnt Ref SD 2.6 Disability & Access Report about heritage

Session Leaders x £160 (prep and People will Dementia Friendly activities annual programme delivery) x 6 have had an - walks Our Some events lead by volunteers after 15 people with dementia and their carers enjoyable Conversational feedback - tour of gardens and heritage Using green space for well being and socialising community will training engaged in using the park p / a experience - table tennis tournament People with Dementia and their carers be a better Yr 1, Yr 2, Yr 3 PP 17 Questionnaire to carers and relevant - picnics and socialising Reducing isolation place to live, Community Ranger x 4 days 8 dedicated events per year (art, walks, tours, People will groups / organisations at end of each year work or visit tree study) have learnt Ref SD 2.6 Disability & Access Report Bathscape Walking Festival about heritage Age UK Bath

Pathways to Wellbeing 2 programme in partnership with the Holburne Museum - mental health and young people - current progamme run by the Holburne Museum comes to a close in May 2019 - SG project to collaborate on P to W Programme 2 through support in kind (Community Ranger) - combine art, nature and the park People will 2 x 2hr creative sessions working with young people with lived experience of mental health issues ( have changed More people partnering with CAMHS and possibly Off The Record) in Sydney Gardens/ Gardener’s Lodge = reaching Improving mental and physical well being their attitudes and a wider Schools and Colleges in Bath max. of 20 young people (10 per session) / behaviour range of Evaluated through Holburne Pathways to Youth centres and clubs Community Ranger x 10 days Yr 1, Yr 2, Yr 3 48 people participating PP 18 2 x 1.5 hr sessions with Gardener’s Lodge Art Group – exploring Sydney Gardens/ history in order to Meeting others people will Wellbeing Programme inspire art work/ creativity – painting/ drawing w/shops in park = reaching 18 ‘vulnerable’ people, People will have engaged referred through community organisations/ mental health team Addressing issues of isolation, anxiety and depression have learnt with heritage 1 x 3 hr session with IMAGE (Peer led Museum’s Group) – exploring Sydney Gardens/ history in order to about heritage inspire group art work/ creativity and develop individual’s knowledge of local heritage = reaching 10 people with lived experience of MH issues who are developing independence through leading their own creative group and developing their creative skills Dependent upon funding secured via Holburne Museum

Music and young people People will - Activity to support running the Garden Bandstand programme (Ref PG 23) Teenagers have had an More people Session Leaders to work with young Conversational feedback - Meet up for young people in the park Schoolchildren enjoyable and a wider Using park for well being and socialising and creativity people - Creating duets for concerts Students experience range of Set up Yr 1, deliver Yr 2, 20 teenagers engaged in series of activities in Questionnaire to participants PP 19 - Researches the history of music in Sydney Gardens and in public parks Bath Universities people will Yr 3 relation to play, nature and music Learning about music heritage of Sydney Gardens - Compliments the Pathways to Wellbeing Progamme Community Choirs People will have engaged Community Ranger x 8 days Evaluation with session leader Bath Studio have learnt with heritage Ref SD2.12 Report: barriers to participation for children and families about heritage Julian House DVA Services A dedicated programme for clients and families of Julian House Refuge facility. Programme of 16 weekly sessions per year for clients of the Women's Refuge Service run by Julian House 8 participants per year Julian House DVA in arts and nature activities People will Improving mental and physical well being Julian House DVA Services support staff Services Clients (adults) = 24 total Evaluation with Julian House Caseworker / - 8 x 2hr creative sessions working with Julian House clients (adults only), with max of 12 per session have More people x 1 at every session session leader about art and nature, using Gardener's Lodge and the park developed and a wider Meeting others 12 participants per year Julian House DVA - 8 x 2 hr sessions with families (adults and children) after school and in school holidays Julian House clients - parents and children skills range of Session Leader Yr 1, Yr 2, Yr 3 Services Clients families and children = 36 total Confidential Questionnaire to PP 20 - Additional Play Sessions out in the park for families and children on occasional basis people will Learning new skills participants/ conversational collection of People will have engaged Holburne Volunteer Plus occasional play drop in = 15 p/a = 45 total feedback at the completion of each block NOTE: Absolute confidentiality: no publicity or communications about these sessions must be known have learnt with heritage Addressing issues of isolation, anxiety and depression of sessions about beyond the organising personnel: Community Ranger, Project Manager, Holburne Museum about heritage Community Ranger x 15 days Total participants over 3 year programme: 105 Education & Outreach Team and Julian House Caseworkers and Managers. Details of the programme in terms of specific dates, times and place must never be published in the public realm. No photographs to be taken of any clients, staff or any personnel.

More people Food and drink in the park drawing on the historic events in the park, to create a social meeting point Enable social cohesion and community well being and a wider around food, creating a socialising stimulus Teenagers through food and drink People will range of Adults Using the Bothy in the park as a drop in Communities of interest active in the park have learnt people will Social Breakfast Club at the Cafe Kiosk Older people Provide affordable offer meeting place after its restoration New meeting groups formed about heritage have engaged - Social Breakfast in the park - Cafe Kiosk opens specially early for meet ups People with dementia Better social cohesion Conversational feedback with heritage Yr 2 experiments for - Student Park Breakfast Club People with mobility issues Social cohesion Partnership project with Café / Kiosk Tolerance and openness in the park PP 21 People will delivery in Yr 3 - Food as a mobilising socialising tool to address loneliness, social cohesion and address health issues Mental health and wellbeing groups and Participation manager in Yr 3 Reduced stress factors Occasional questionnaire to participants have had an Our - meets over summer months voluntary organisations Addresses mental and social well being New friendships enjoyable community will - seeded in final year of project, to be continued by Cafe Kiosk manager Park users Addresses loneliness Community Ranger x 10 days Stronger relationships experience be a better - session leaders to set up working closely with Community FoSG Brings people to the park place to live, work or visit Ref SD 2.13 Report: barriers to participation for older people

Artists Focus group for 'model of exchange' programme for Bothy Designers People will with interested partners and interested groups Makers Community Ranger x 2 days Enables participatory activity in the park have had an 5 organisations / artists minimum to attend Bothy Brief is completed and finalised for 3 x meetings open to all interested to discuss interest, potentials and ideas for Bothy Mental Health charities Yr 1 and early Yr 2 PP 22 enjoyable meetings to map Bothy 'model of exchange' first residency 'call out' FoSG Holburne Museum Inspires other models for park usage and provision experience Ref Appendix SD 2.10 Bothy Brief Volunteers Holburne curators

THE BOTHY

Model of Exchange for increasing use, diversity, participation and opportunity in the park

- Studio space 'model of exchange' for resident social artist group / design collective / material workshop More people Public and park users of all ages / environmental practice / educational practice and a wider First residency based on model of - free studio and work space (utilities paid by resident) in exchange for equivalent delivery of devised free Model of exchange enables free programme of activities range of Defined user groups Number of participants engaged in quality exchange is successfully started public participation programme open to park users - for example, a woodworker running 'open session' to continue beyond life of the project people will participatory activities during 2020 and 2021 once a week. People will have engaged Project Team Priority Audiences Heritage will be Volunteer base established at the Bothy - Initially run by project, then passed to residency manager - Holburne? Generates ongoing relationships between park users have with heritage Community Ranger x 12 days better Yr 2, Yr 3 Partnership working for FoSG and possibly Canal & River Trust PP 23 - 2-3 year contract developed Holburne Museum Artists managed Enables participatory activity in the park skills Our Maker in Residence Secure structure in place for ongoing Residency model is passed on to either Responds to key project themes: Art and Nature, Play and Parks, Cultural and heritage contexts, or community will Makers management post project B&NES or Holburne on completion of materials at work in park: wood, stone, iron for example Inspires other models for park usage and provision be a better project place to live, Designers NOTE: After the Bothy opens after restoration, it will could host school visits and be a meeting point for work or visit the park, until Community pavilion / Cafe / Kiosk are open.

Ref Appendix SD 2.10 Bothy Brief

10 volunteers from Friends of Sydney Gardens More people to become dementia friends Making the park Dementia friendly, and welcoming Training: People will and a wider Volunteer trainer from Bath Dementia Friends of Sydney Gardens people with dementia and their carers into the park Becoming a Dementia Friend have range of Action Alliance 20 employees from B&NES Parks Service and Evaluation of learning on completion of Other volunteers Deliver in Yr 1 and Yr 2 T11 developed people will Heritage Parks Team to become dementia training Parks Service employees Understanding of needs and spaces (inc public space Ref SD 2.13 Report: barriers to participation for older people skills have engaged RVP Nursery friends maintenance) with heritage 3 x volunteers to become Dementia Champions More people Training: People will and a wider Leading a walk or small scale activity for people with Dementia and their carers 6 volunteers able to lead Dementia friendly Friends of Sydney Gardens and new Making the park Dementia friendly, and welcoming have range of Deliver in Yr 1 and Yr 2 Evaluation of learning on completion of plus Dementia Friendly Audit and finakl design trials walks and small scale activities in Sydney T12 volunteers people with dementia and their carers into the park developed people will External trainer: 6 x half days and Yr 3 training Gardens skills have engaged Ref SD 2.13 Report: barriers to participation for older people with heritage

6 volunteers trained (3 FoSG / volunteers and 3 New skills in supporting others External Trainer and Mentoring x Parks Service employees) p / a trained as More people Management x 2 days provided as part Friends of Sydney Gardens mentors in safeguarding, wellbeing, and in Confidence in volunteering People will and a wider of Holburne Pathways to Wellbeing Training: relation to those wanting to find ways to have range of (funding dependent) Evaluation of learning on completion of Mentoring and supporting others to volunteer and participate Older people Deliver in Yr 2-3 volunteer and participate in public green space T13 Bridging the gaps between people who are skilled and developed people will training Through Pathways to Wellbeing 2 in partnership with Holburne Museum those who need skills skills have engaged Community Ranger x 2 days B&NES Parks Service employees 6 'mentors' active at the completion of the with heritage Sydney Gardens Project engaged in volunteer Social cohesion 6 volunteers p / a support in relation to Sydney Gardens

Friends of Sydney Gardens and new People will 10 volunteers trained in generating high quality Training: volunteers Preparing high quality content for online platforms of have Set up in Yr 2 for Yr 3 content online platform about the built and Evaluation of learning on completion of T14 External Trainer x 2 days Digital masterclass in 'Know Your Place' and generating content for digital platforms high quality including games and activities developed delivery natural heritage of the Gardens training Young people and students skills Community Ranger x 1 day

Training: Using social media, extending your audience and designing publicity: Twitter, Facebook and Instagram External Trainer x 2 days delivering 4 x 10 volunteers trained in using social media People will Creating an e-newsletter Better, safer and higher quality information and publicity half day sessions platforms to give information and to publicise Friends of Sydney Gardens and new have Deliver in Yr 1, Yr 2 and Yr Evaluation of learning on completion of Editing a website about the park and the restoration project and the events and activities, able to actively edit T15 volunteers developed 3 training Using Eventbrite legacy of the project Community Ranger x 2 days (4 half day website information and publicise an event skills Online leaflet and publicity design sessions) p / a online Image manipulation Ref SD 2.17 Communications Strategy

CR Total days: 122

Communiti People & Nature: learning, perception of, understanding, wonder, diversity, non human, living heritage, gardening Heritage People es

Annual Art and Nature Festival: A Cosmorama - inspired by Cosmorama: view scenes of distant lands and exotic subjects through optical devices that magnified the pictures: Cosmorama as a 'lens' through which to view close up, magnify, explore People from different disciplines working in - Art and Nature activities collaboratively run Capitalise on growing connections between art and People will Community Ranger x 10 days collaboration eg ecologist and artist - explore ways of seeing in nature and art; perception, imagination, understanding, ways of seeing nature have changed Bath Natural History Society - Art + Science collaborative working to create ways of interpreting nature, landscape, place, space Young people their attitudes Canal and River Trust Species recorded Survey with participants and audience to - Cosmorama inspires use of lens: magnifier, binoculars, microscopes and telescopes. Older people Heritage will be Contemporary subject area at the heart of heritage of / behaviour Holburne Museum New audiences who don't normally come to improve and focus the event annually - Improve habitat areas and species surveys Target groups better More people gardens Bath Society for Botanical Art nature events - people who don't normally - 24 hour nature watch (bats, dawn chorus, night sky, crepuscular activity) on weekend nearest Artists interpreted and a wider People will RSPB engage with nature in an urban park Conversations with participants midsummer Environmental groups and explained range of Yr 1, Yr 2 and Yr 3 - one Create innovative and experimental event and activities have Avon Wildlife Trust Quality of activities PN 1 - Photography, drawing, painting, observation FoSG people will event p / a volunteered Bathwick School Popularity of event: events well attended, or to Feedback invited from activity leaders and - Botanical illustration talk and demo Bath Natural History Society Heritage will be have engaged Focus on exploring the perceptions, ideas, connections time Widcombe School capacity staff - Flowers and gardening Naturalists identified/ with heritage between human and non-human Scouts and Guides - antithesis to the 'challenge' nature events: investigates perception and nonhuman Wild Play providers recorded People will Festival of Nature Focus shifted away from 'connecting' with Sample site survey during event - Talks from nature and culture writers Explorers Host talks, tours, installation, art activity have learnt nature or undertaking 'challenges' to all at meeting point between art and nature about heritage Volunteers experiencing nature, to perceiving nature and Holburne Museum + C&R Trust as key partners ongoing plus Festival of Nature re opportunity to connect learning about the non human through the lens blue and green space, species, canal art, portholes, otters, fish, waterway plants

Inspired by Berlin's Long Day of Urban Nature: start small scale in Yr 1 and grow the event with the assistance of volunteers and partners

National Tree Week People will Participants and visitors have learnt new things - Tree planting (succession planting of recently felled London Plane) with local school, and to have about the trees General public across age and ability: acknowledge HLF Lottery players contribution developed Friends of Sydney Gardens Heritage will be - Tree Walk and Talk skills Walk + Talk Leader x half day People attend who do not normally attend Park through-routers better - Tree identification learning session Tree ecology talk x half day events such as this Visitors and tourists Learning about the trees of Sydney Gardens interpreted - Trees and ecological relationships public talk People will Botanical artist x half day Local residents and explained Last week of November Drawing trees - talk and session from Bath Botanical Arts Society have Tree Trail downloaded and used from Yr 2 Sample audience survey PN 2 Children and young people Understanding the cultural and natural heritage of the Yr 1, Yr 2 - Launching of Tree Trail for the park volunteered B&NES Arboreal Officer x 1 day onwards Older people park Heritage will be - Creating resources from the fallen London Plane (a diagrammatic witness map using a circle from the time Intergenerational identified/ trunk of the tree Community Ranger x 3 days Events are well attended and fully booked or Regional audience recorded - Installing selected Tree identification tags People will nearly fully booked Priority Audiences have learnt Ref SD 13.1 Management & Maintenance Plan about heritage Diversity of ages and abilities Bath Spa University Creation of high quality work that enables Sydney Gardens Tree Library / Time Traveller Heritage will be People will Learning about the trees of Sydney Gardens 1 x local school learning across built and natural heritage Digital and physical interpretation that maps the rings of the London Plane tree or Beech Tree (thought Park users better have to be one of the original trees planted in Sydney Gardens) at the top of the park by Bothy into a historical Visitors and tourists interpreted developed Understanding the cultural and natural heritage of the Arboreal team at B&NES Council Engages users creatively Questionnaire to participants circular 'growing' timeline of the development of the park with historic features, living social history Local residents and explained skills park Yr 2, Yr 3 PN 3 alongside ecological and carbon data mapping change in the city of Bath (Jane Austen's breath is in the Children and young people Bath Society for Botanical Art Innovates interpretation Questionnaire to partners rings of that tree) Older people Heritage will be People will Understanding ecological connections between built and - engaging schools and universities in mapping and digital design Intergenerational identified/ have learnt natural heritage Community Ranger 3 days Involves young people in generating and - end product ideally located in park as physical object and also into fold out interpretation map Priority Audiences recorded about heritage understanding content and form Comms Intern

People will have A Tree Trail developed around the park identifying the significant trees, species, identification details, habitat, living history People learning about the natural living heritage Heritage will be skills B&NES Arboreal Team - Printed leaflet and downloadable PDF better Residents Community Ranger x 2 days Creation of Tree Trail that is informative, Number of downloads of Tree Trail Expanding understanding of capacity of trees as interpreted FoSG People will popular and inspiring, and creatively designed - Trees as ' teachers' 'teachers' and explained All ages have Volunteers Yr 2, Yr 3 Feedback form post Tree Trail tours PN 4 - Tree Trail also can become part of a park tour Visitors and Tourists volunteered Bathwick School / Widcombe School More people informed and aware of heritage of - Witness trees as having seen events unfold in the park - living heritage - what have they seen? Greater understanding of the benefit of trees Heritage will be Bathwick Primary School time trees in Sydney Gardens Questionnaire to participating schools - Relationship / exchange with humans re biology, materials, identification, facts and figures identified/ - Trees in park added to Treezilla Learning new skills recorded People will - Bathwick Primary School to generate some material have learnt - Bath Botanical Arts Society to generate drawings and illustrations about heritage

People will High quality new garden borders that are Open to design competition: have manageable for volunteer gardeners, increase New flower gardens - design competition run through local community groups to design pocket areas The new garden is created through community To schools for child sized garden component developed biodiversity and species Number of entries in Garden Design of Sydney Gardens for specific purposes collaboration To all: for disabled access and sensory garden skills Competition (aim for min of 30 for each - Presenting the Georgian Garden as an inspiration and inviting contemporary designs Horticulture & Participation Officer component Seed late in Yr 1, Design Bring pleasure to people visiting the gardens 'pocket' area) - child sized garden The new garden is planned with the assistance of Heritage will be Gardening Intern Horticultural courses and garden designers People will competition early in Yr 2 - community growing volunteers creating ownership better Sydney Gardening Club have for construction and Increase time spent in gardens by park users High quality innovative designs for special PN 5 - disabled accessible gardening beds interpreted Volunteers Volunteers volunteered completion in Spring of Yr pocket areas of the park - planting for scent Promotion of gardens and gardening for well being and and explained Sydney Gardening Club Bathwick Primary time 3 Increase visitors coming into the park from - planting for biodiversity health FoSG Widcombe Primary Holburne People engaging in the gardens who have King Edwards School People will not engaged previously Ref SD 13.1 Management & Maintenance Plan Promotion of Sydney Gardens as garden for everyone Priority Audiences have learnt Increase access for people with additional about heritage needs

General Public Horticulture & Participation Officer Friends of Sydney Gardens People will Gardening Intern Areas of overgrown Cherry Laurel removed Removal of Cherry Laurel and large scale volunteering activity Large scale volunteering is inspiring and engages park Overgrown Cherry Laurel removed Park users have from Sydney Gardens (around and below - City Challenge or similar event with volunteers and Parks Service to remove the overgrown Cherry users directly in the park and in the future of the Yr 1 PN 6 Residents developed Volunteers Loggia, around Georgian Reservoir, above Laurel at key locations around the park Gardens Volunteers have a satisfying time Students skills Sydney Gardening Club Canal)

Horticulture & Participation Officer General Public Canal & River Trust & Sydney Gardens Abutments Gardening Apprentice Friends of Sydney Gardens People will Canal Abutments managed for - Working with Canal & River Trust volunteers to create waterway wild flower 'mats' on canal abutments, Heritage will be Canal & River Trust Canal Abutments turn into biodiverse Park users Canal & River Trust connects to Sydney Gardens Project have biodiversity clearing vegetation from stonework and bridges, and cutting back or removing Yew trees on abutments in a better Yr 1 manageable habitat and good for biodiversity PN 7 Residents directly through volunteering and heritage context developed - Removing fallen soil from abutments and managing them so they do not deteriorate further condition Volunteers for canal corridor Canal & River Trust Volunteers skills Volunteers have a satisfying time Ref SD 13.1 Management & Maintenance Plan Sydney Gardening Club

Sydney Gardening Club monthly sessions continue and develop through starting a club, encouraging and enabling training, skills People will exchange, horticultural 'ownership' of the gardens, biodiversity. have Build and sustain a group of gardening - weekly gardening session led by Horticulture Participation Officer run through the Spring and Summer Bi-monthly check in re focus of the developed volunteers (10 per month average) gardening club skills Sydney Gardens is for people who don't have gardens as well as those who do: plant exchanges, seed Residents More people Mental and physical well being Improve the planting in relation to horticultural swaps, edible planting too FoSG and a wider Horticulture & Participation Officer One of FoSG to monitor Heritage will be People will significance Gardeners range of Gardening Apprentice Yr 1, Yr 2 + Yr 3 and Learning new skills in a better have PN 8 - maintaining dedicated borders People who want to learn to garden people will Volunteers ongoing Volunteer feedback forms for selected condition volunteered Increase species to support pollinators - wildflower sowing All ages have engaged FoSG sessions Pleasure of growing plants and gardening time - selected habitat management Priority Audiences with heritage Community Ranger x 3 days Produce a guide to planting in relation to - participates in the Garden Design Competition Participants who have not belonged to a People will timeline of the garden and a list of plants found - gardening for all abilities Volunteer Gardening Club before have learnt in the gardens about heritage Create a Sydney Gardening Guide to Planting / Garden Design and Volunteering in the park Ref SD 13.1 Management & Maintenance Plan Hosting a visit to garden by user group with additional needs

Identify a user group who could benefit from a specially supported visit to Sydney Gardens to participate More people in Horticulture session Mental and physical well being Horticulture & Participation Officer and a wider Host the group during Yr 3 to assist with planting and maintaining the garden Gardening Apprentice 3 groups come to Sydney Gardens to participate Small visiting group with particular need eg People will range of Feedback form for the activity to group or Work with community groups to identify group who are most interested and would benefit from a visit Learning new skills Yr 2 + Yr 3 in Horticulture and gardening who wouldn't PN 9 hard of hearing have learnt people will partner leaders, and to participants e.g. Hard of hearing or Visually Impaired Community Ranger x 2 days normally have the opportunity about heritage have engaged 3 sessions over project Pleasure of growing plants and gardening with heritage Freelance session leader as support Ref SD 2.6 Disability & Access Report Ref SD 2.13 Report: Barriers to participation for older people

A 'Dog Poo Bio digester' in Sydney Gardens Crowd funding campaign to raise £10,000 to buy and install Environmental Community Ranger x 2 days - bio digester turns dog poo into renewable energy (power up to 2 hours light per day) Dog waste recycled impacts will be Successful Crowdfunding Campaign - working with Dog Walkers to raise funds reduced Dog Walkers Seed crowdfunder early People will - innovative and new contribution to the park Reduction of dog waste in Sydney Gardens Yr 2 Successful Crowdfunding campaign have changed Dog poo powered light in Sydney Gardens - generates renewable energy and recycles waste Dog Walkers Our Comms & Participation Intern PN 10 their attitudes works! - sets example for other parks in Bath Positive responsibility from dog walkers community will Biodigester installed end Reduction of dog waste in bins / behaviour - Light to be placed in suitable location in park - near main entrance? be a better FoSG of Yr 2 Popularity with public Communication with dog walkers and dogs! place to live, Renewable Light in Sydney Gardens - 3 x activities to engage dog walkers to see benefit / demonstration and to collect pictures of dogs that work or visit Crowdfunding Platform use Sydney Gardens to make a 'dog wall' on line

People will have Learning Bat Walk and bat species recordings in Summer and Autumn over the project Residents developed Community Ranger x 1 day p / a Number of Bat species recorded is consistent Heritage will be Feedback forms post activity - monitoring the Bat species in the Temple of Minerva and along the canal corridor FoSG skills Bath Nat Hist Soc Yr 1, Yr 2 and Yr 3 - one New experiences identified / PN 11 - 2 x walks and public monitoring events per year Natural historians Canal and Rivers Trust Ecology Officer event p / a New people engaged in natural heritage of the recorded Species records - 1 x Talk about bats and bat habitat People who want to learn People will Volunteers park Interaction with and understanding of natural heritage have learnt about heritage

People will Number and diversity of Bird species recorded, Learning Birds in Sydney Gardens have relating to previous records Community Ranger x 2 days p /a - Annual Dawn Chorus / Early Birds Walk and species recordings of birds resident in and visiting Sydney Residents developed New experiences Heritage will be Bath Nat Hist Soc Feedback forms post activity Gardens FoSG skills Yr 1, Yr 2 and Yr 3 - one New people engaged in natural heritage of the identified / Canal and Rivers Trust Ecology Officer PN 12 - Annual learning session of bird song and identification Natural Historians event p / a park Interaction with and understanding of natural heritage recorded Bath RSPB Species records - 3 x Talk about supporting birds in urban habitats People who want to learn People will Volunteers have learnt Greater knowledge about bird species and how Increased skill about heritage to identify them

People will Number of different plant and invertebrate have Horticulture & Participation Officer Increasing habitat and biodiversity in Sydney Gardens species recorded is consistent FoSG developed Gardening Intern Feedback forms post activity Working with volunteers from FoSg, Sydney Gardening Club and Bath Natural History Society to create Park users Increasing habitat Heritage will be skills Environmental Bath Nat Hist Soc series of good habitat for birds and pollinators (dense, small pockets, biodiverse, shrubberies) Yr 1, Yr 2 and Yr 3 - four New people engaged in natural heritage of the Garden Volunteers in a better impacts will be Canal and Rives Trust Ecology Officer Species records PN 13 Keeping a record of species sighted in the garden events p / a park Public Biodiversity condition People will reduced Volunteers One event per quarter / season Children have FoSG Area of biodiversity increased Ref SD 13.1 Management & Maintenance Plan Areas of biodiverse habitat increased by 25% for volunteered Community Ranger x 4 days pollinators time

10 volunteers trained in tree identification and People will Training: about the significant trees in Sydney Gardens have B&NES Tree Officer x 2 days (no cost) Tree identification and management developed - learn about the heritage, how to identify and manage the ancient, champion and significant trees in Friends of Sydney Gardens and new Information for the Tree Trail generated Better understanding and knowledge of the trees in the skills External Trainer x 1 day x 2 half day Evaluation of learning on completion of Sydney Gardens volunteers Yr 1- 3 T16 park, the significance, heritage and succession plan. sessions training - contribute knowledge to Treezilla online tree recording platform Priority Audiences Tree Trail produced with support of 4 x People will - assist in promoting and publicising significance of trees in Sydney Gardens volunteers have learnt Community Ranger x 2 days p / a - 2 sessions per year in Spring and Autumn about heritage

People will Better understanding and knowledge of the birds have Training: resident in and migrating through the park and how to developed Bath Natural History Society Volunteer Annual programme of 2 Bird identification & surveys Friends of Sydney Gardens and new support habitat both in the park and in surrounding skills Leaders sessions per year through 7 volunteers trained to collect data across 2019- Evaluation of learning on completion of - learning about the birds that live and migrate in Sydney Gardens volunteers gardens T17 Delivery phase from Yr 1 - 2021 on bird species and habitat in the park training - learn to identify birds by their song Priority Audiences People will Community Ranger x 2 days p /a 3 - learn how to do a bird survey to record species People skilled in surveying an area for birds and in have learnt identification of birds through song and calls about heritage Sydney Gardening Club formed and sustainable, with consistent pool of 8 - 12 volunteers External Trainer x 20 half day sessions working throughout the year on designated Training: People will Friends of Sydney Gardens and new Environmental planting areas. Horticultural Training: Skills in horticulture, planting design and maintenance have Other sessions and ongoing training Evaluation of learning on completion of volunteers impacts will be Yr 1 and Yr 2 T18 pruning, planning a perennial border, wildflower borders, edible flowers, fruit tree care, plants and for application in Sydney Gardens developed provided by Horticulture & Participation training Priority Audiences reduced Participants / volunteers include diversity of pollinators, flowers all year round skills Officer in Yr 2 and Yr 3 ages and experience and abilities, with 25% of sessions dedicated to children and young Community Ranger people

Wider range of people have understanding of Understanding of planted and natural heritage of the People will the design and planting influences across time, Training: Heritage Landscape Design Volunteers and students External Trainer x 1.5 days @ 300 p/d Yr 1 - 2 Evaluation of learning on completion of gardens and influence of culture on garden design and have learnt and how to support planting in Sydney Gardens T19 Horticultural Training: planting and landscape design across the history and heritage of the park 3 x evening sessions training planting culture about heritage Community Ranger 20 volunteers per session

People will Training and session leaders fees part of Environmental Participants learn about innovative technology Training: Participants will gain a basic understanding of the have build contracts x 1 day session Evaluation of learning on completion of General Public impacts will be Yr 2 in supporting biodiversity and reducing carbon T20 Creating and managing a Sedum / Green / Brown Roof principles of creating a green roof developed training reduced through installing a Green Roof on Café Kiosk skills Community Ranger x 1 day

CR Total days: 45

Total Cost of Action Plan: £125,000 (including professional fees) Total Community Ranger Days: 292 days over 3 years allocated and programmed £10,000 Training Total: £135,000

Sydney Gardens PfP Supporting Database PP-16-00071 (August 2018)

6 a) HLF Outcomes: table of planned activities meeting HLF Outcomes

11. 12. Communities 3. Heritage 7. People 8. People 10. Communities 2. Heritage 4. Heritage 6. People 9. People More people 1. Heritage Heritage will be 5. People People will have People will have Communities Your local Heritage will be Heritage will be People will have People will have and a wider Ref no Activity Heritage will be better People will have changed their had an Environmental area/community in better identified learnt about volunteered range of people better managed interpreted and developed skills attitudes / enjoyable impacts will be will be a better condition /recorded heritage time will have explained behaviour experience reduced place to live, work engaged with or visit heritage

PG 1 Community Day' 2019 ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔

PG 2 Community Day' 2021 ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔

Illumination! PG 3 A launch event in final year of ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ restoration

Commemorating the 100th PG 4 Anniversary of Peace Day in Bath ✔ ✔

PG 5 Bath Carnival ✔ ✔

PG 6 Jane Austen costume parade day ✔ ✔

Crowd funding campaign Jane PG 7 Austen Statue (Launch) ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔

Unveiling Jane Austen Statue / PG 8 Plinth ✔ ✔

PG 9 Jane Austen Trail in Sydney Gardens ✔ ✔ ✔

Archaeology Day PG 10 Co-host Roman archaeology day ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔

PG 11 Recreating the historic Labyrinth ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔

PG 12 Ponies on the Ride (install) ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔

Hidden History' Talks Programme PG 13 with Holburne Museum ✔ ✔ ✔ 11. 12. Communities 3. Heritage 7. People 8. People 10. Communities 2. Heritage 4. Heritage 6. People 9. People More people 1. Heritage Heritage will be 5. People People will have People will have Communities Your local Heritage will be Heritage will be People will have People will have and a wider Ref no Activity Heritage will be better People will have changed their had an Environmental area/community in better identified learnt about volunteered range of people better managed interpreted and developed skills attitudes / enjoyable impacts will be will be a better condition /recorded heritage time will have explained behaviour experience reduced place to live, work engaged with or visit heritage

Hidden History' Tour of Sydney PG 14 Gardens and neighbourhood ✔ ✔ ✔

Sydney Gardens Trail Interpretation PG 15 x 3 ✔ ✔ ✔

PG 16 Historic Tours' of Sydney Gardens ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔

Steam Train Celebrations and public PG 17 timetables ✔ ✔ ✔

PG 18 Stone Conservation - 4 activities ✔ ✔ ✔

Community Archaeology Discovery PG 19 Days ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ Discovering and documenting Social PG 20 & Cultural Heritage of the Pleasure ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ Garden x 6

PG 21 Georgian Reservoir Talk and Tour ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔

PG 22 Monoprinting from the Telltale Tiles ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔

PG 23 The Garden 'Bandstand' ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔

PG 24 Annual Food and Artisan Market ✔

Documentation of the restoration PG 25 project ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔

Creation of material for digital PG 26 interpretation platform ✔ ✔ ✔

Sydney Gardens project website PG 27 and social media platforms ✔ ✔

Training: T1 Running small scale events and ✔ activities in Sydney Garden 11. 12. Communities 3. Heritage 7. People 8. People 10. Communities 2. Heritage 4. Heritage 6. People 9. People More people 1. Heritage Heritage will be 5. People People will have People will have Communities Your local Heritage will be Heritage will be People will have People will have and a wider Ref no Activity Heritage will be better People will have changed their had an Environmental area/community in better identified learnt about volunteered range of people better managed interpreted and developed skills attitudes / enjoyable impacts will be will be a better condition /recorded heritage time will have explained behaviour experience reduced place to live, work engaged with or visit heritage

Training: T2 Running a Crowdfunding Campaign ✔

Training: T3 Setting out a pattern design on the ✔ ✔ ground: the historic Labyrinth

Training: T5 Creating simple temporary light ✔ ✔ sculptures Training: T6 Stone Conservation on historic ✔ ✔ ✔ buildings in the park Training: T7 Conservation of Ironwork: ✔ ✔ ✔ Edwardian Toilets Training: T8 Creating a podcast, and generating ✔ ✔ ✔ audio material

Training: Digital masterclass'Know Your Place' T9 - generating content digital ✔ platforms

Training: Digital masterclass in digital T10 photography (still and moving ✔ image)

Share The Space Soapbox - how can PP 1 we all share ✔ ✔

Diversity and Inclusivity: Share The PP 2 Space Research Group ✔ ✔

Tour for Councillors & local PP 3 businesses ✔

Creating a Code of Conduct about PP 4 Homelessness and the park ✔

Dementia Friendly testing out in PP 5 Sydney Gardens ✔ ✔ 11. 12. Communities 3. Heritage 7. People 8. People 10. Communities 2. Heritage 4. Heritage 6. People 9. People More people 1. Heritage Heritage will be 5. People People will have People will have Communities Your local Heritage will be Heritage will be People will have People will have and a wider Ref no Activity Heritage will be better People will have changed their had an Environmental area/community in better identified learnt about volunteered range of people better managed interpreted and developed skills attitudes / enjoyable impacts will be will be a better condition /recorded heritage time will have explained behaviour experience reduced place to live, work engaged with or visit heritage

After school play sessions for PP 6 children and young people ✔ ✔

PP 7 Community Play Day for all ages ✔

Led learning sessions for schools PP 8 and home educators ✔ ✔ ✔

Learning Activity Sheets (Printed PP 9 and Downloadable PDFs) ✔ ✔

Sports and exercise coaching PP 11 ✔ ✔

Tai Chi in the Park PP 12 ✔ ✔

PP 13 Mindfulness Walks in the Park ✔ ✔

Older people: Series of participatory PP 14 sessions programmed in the park ✔ ✔

Older people day care 'trips out' to PP 15 Sydney Gardens ✔ ✔ Park users with additional needs: PP 16 Map ✔ ✔ ✔

Dementia Friendly activities annual PP 17 programme ✔ ✔ ✔

Pathways to Wellbeing 2 PP 18 programme - Holburne Museum ✔ ✔ ✔ leading

PP 19 Music and young people ✔ ✔ ✔

PP 20 Julian House DVA Services ✔ ✔ ✔

Social Breakfast Club at the Cafe PP 21 Kiosk ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ 11. 12. Communities 3. Heritage 7. People 8. People 10. Communities 2. Heritage 4. Heritage 6. People 9. People More people 1. Heritage Heritage will be 5. People People will have People will have Communities Your local Heritage will be Heritage will be People will have People will have and a wider Ref no Activity Heritage will be better People will have changed their had an Environmental area/community in better identified learnt about volunteered range of people better managed interpreted and developed skills attitudes / enjoyable impacts will be will be a better condition /recorded heritage time will have explained behaviour experience reduced place to live, work engaged with or visit heritage

Focus group for 'model of exchange' PP 22 programme for Bothy ✔

THE BOTHY Model of Exchange PP 23 Residency ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔

Training: T11 Becoming a Dementia Friend ✔ ✔

Training: Leading a small scale activity for T12 people with Dementia and their ✔ ✔ carers Training: T13 Mentoring and supporting others to ✔ ✔ volunteer and participate

Training: T14 Collecting oral history ✔ ✔

Training: T15 Using social media ✔

Annual Art and Nature Festival: A PN 1 Cosmorama ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔

National Tree Week PN 2 ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔

Sydney Gardens Tree Library / Time PN 3 Traveller ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔

A Tree Trail PN 4 around the park ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔

New flower gardens - design PN 5 competition ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔

Removal of Cherry Laurel and large PN 6 scale volunteering activity ✔

Canal & River Trust & Sydney PN 7 Gardens Abutments ✔ ✔

PN 8 Sydney Gardening Club ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ Hosting a visit to garden by user PN 9 group with additional needs ✔ ✔

A 'Dog Poo Bio digester' PN 10 Crowdfunder ✔ ✔ ✔

PN 11 Bat Walk and bat species recordings ✔ ✔ ✔

Birds in Sydney Gardens PN 12 ✔ ✔ ✔

Increasing habitat and biodiversity PN 13 in Sydney Gardens ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔

Training: T16 Tree identification and ✔ ✔ management

Training: T17 Bird identification & surveys ✔ ✔

Training: T18 Horticultural Training: ✔ ✔

T19 Training: Heritage Landscape Design ✔

Training: T20 Creating and managing a Sedum / ✔ ✔ Green / Brown Roof