Love Your Park Community Fund – Green Match Fund Campaign Thank you so much for supporting our Big Give Green Match Fund campaign! This is a huge opportunity for us and we really appreciate your help. Love Your Park Community Fund Cherishing our parks into the future is so important. Time within a green space boosts our mental and physical wellbeing – clearly shown during the pandemic. It is even more important for those in Bristol or Bath without a garden of their own. Parks relieve the stress of city living, enable children to be free and help us all to form a personal connection with nature. When volunteers become involved at the grass roots a green space starts to thrive. Our Love Your Park Community Fund will help them do more, to reach out to others to join in and feel a sense of community belonging. Your local park group can apply to the fund to help your green space flourish. Volunteers really are our #parkheroes – helping care for nature, keeping parks litter free and making green spaces welcoming to all. The Green Match Fund – Double Donations! We have been selected to be part of the Big Give’s first Green Match Fund! We have set a fundraising target of £5,000. Every penny we raise up to £2,500 will be matched by the Big Give. If we hit our £5,000 target, we will be able to launch the first round of the Love Your Park Community Fund later this year. The campaign is open from 22-29 April. All donations have to be made through our Big Give campaign page here: https://donate.thebiggive.org.uk/campaign/a056900001oq3HvAAI How you can help… 1. Donate Please support the campaign financially, whatever the size of your donation, it will be doubled! There is no better time to make a contribution to our work. 2. Ask 5 people to donate Personal approaches to friends, family or colleagues can be the best way to secure donations. If you know someone who really cares about their park, loves running, has a family or is passionate about wildlife. This could be a great opportunity for them to connect with a charity that connects with their values. 3. Share the campaign Help us reach more people by posting the campaign across your online channels and social media feeds. These could include: - Sharing our posts from our Twitter feed and our Facebook page - Your personal feeds on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn - Your park group, neighbourhood groups or on Next Door - Through your e-newsletter - Your workplace intranet See the next page for suggested content. Resources See the next 2 pages for example emails, social media posts and e-newsletter copy. If there is anything else you would find useful, just let us know at info@bbpf.org.uk. 1. Email to send to friends, family or colleagues Dear <ENTER NAME>, Have you heard about the Big Give? It is a match funding campaign that doubles our donations to worthy causes. They have just launched their first campaign focused on environmental charities – the Green Match Fund! It launches this Thursday at midday, and I wanted to let you know as a charity close to my heart (Bristol and Bath Parks Foundation) has a brilliant opportunity to hit their fundraising target for their Love Your Park Community Fund. As a likeminded park lover, I know you will agree that spending time in nature in our parks and green spaces has been a lifeline during the pandemic and will continue to be as important for our future wellbeing. The Bristol and Bath Parks Foundation’s Love Your Park Community Fund will support the park volunteers, like me, who go the extra mile to support our parks with small grants, launching this summer. If you would like to support the campaign you can donate here: https://bit.ly/3gbkLYo (between 22-29 April) and it will be DOUBLED! A great way to mark Earth Day and World Urban Park Day, all happening this week. With very best wishes, 2. E-newsletter wording Our parks have been a lifeline during Covid and are now busier than ever. Time within a green space has been shown to be so vital to our mental and physical wellbeing and for us to connect with nature. Bristol and Bath Parks Foundation is taking part in the Big Give Green Match week 22- 29 April raising funds for the #LoveYourPark Community Fund supporting Bristol and Bath’s park volunteers – local people like us - who keep our park rich in nature, litter free and welcoming to all. During this time any donation will be doubled! To donate please click here https://bit.ly/3gbkLYo 3. Facebook/Linkedin Spending time in nature in our parks and green spaces has been a lifeline during the pandemic and will continue to be as important for our future wellbeing. There is an exciting opportunity to support the Bristol and Bath Parks Foundation’s Love Your Park Community Fund through the Big Give Green Match 22-29 April. The Fund supports park volunteers - like us - who go the extra mile to care for nature, keep parks free of litter and make them welcoming to all. Donate here https://bit.ly/3gbkLYo (between 22-29 April) and it will be DOUBLED! A great way to mark #EarthDay2021 the campaign goes live on Thursday 22nd April. 4. Tweets… Great news! @YourParkBB is taking part in the Big Give Green Match, 22-29 April raising funds towards the #LoveYourPark community fund for park vols who go the extra mile for nature and for our parks. Your donation will be doubled! https://bit.ly/3gbkLYo #GreenMatchFund 70% of people said that Parks improved their mental and physical wellbeing during lockdown. Donate during @BigGive to support park vols - the people who #LoveYourPark in Bristol & Bath. One donation twice the impact! https://bit.ly/3gbkLYo #GreenMatchFund Imagine wilder areas in our parks. Support our park volunteers who care for nature and keep parks litter free. Donate to the #LoveYourPark community fund during the Big Give 22-29 April & your donation will be DOUBLED! https://bit.ly/3gbkLYo #GreenMatchFund
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