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WELCOME TO THE SENSE OF PLACE TOOLKIT A Site Map Glossary Index STEP 1: GET ORGANISED Step 1a: Form a Steering Group Step 1b: Tell people what you're up to Step 1c:Explore the options for recording, communicating and sharing Step 1d: Bringing it all together STEP 2: GET TO KNOW YOUR PLACE Step 2a: What's on your patch and why is it important Step 2b: Working with the wider community Step 2c: Drawing it together STEP 3: IDENTIFY ISSUES AND OPPORTUNITIES Step 3a: Investigate issues, threats and existing efforts to protect and enhance Step 3b: Identify your opportunities Step 3c: Refine your options STEP 4: GET PEOPLE ACTIVE

Contents 1 What does the toolkit do? 2 Get your Community Involved 3 Find out more about the landscape and environment 4 Map everything 5 Find out about the Challenges Facing your Environment 6 Develop an Effective Action Plan

What does the toolkit do?

There is a lot informtion available about on what's in your neighbourhood and why it's important. The problem is that there's so much, which makes it difficult to know where to go and how to pull it all together.

What the toolkit seeks to do is not only to tell you where you may be able to get this information, but helps you get the best out of all of the resources and put together a plan of action.

Everything in the toolkit is arranged in a series of steps aimed at producing an action plan and other documentation that is endorsed by the community - but that doesn't mean you can't dip into the appropriate bits to find out more about what's around you.

Get your Community Involved

The toolkit has been organised with a view to getting people to organise themselves into groups that will go out there, find out what's in their area and get involved in protecting and enhancing it.

All along the way there are instructions, hints and tips, thoughts and information on things you can do to get your community involved. The steps and why the toolkit is set up like this is all described in the overview.

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Find out more about the landscape and environment

This covers resources which enable you to construct a map of everything in your locality including:

• wildlife conservation areas
• landscape
• historical assets
• archaeology
• habitats
• walks
• and ..... more!
  
  

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Map everything

As well as providing you with a guide and step by step instructions on how to get the best out of all of the online information resources available to you, the toolkit also has suggestions and easy to follow instructions on how to:

• create your own online map and aerial photo
• draw out areas and pinpoint things that you find
• share your map with others
• collaborate on getting more information on the map
• ultimately provide a definitive map of everything in your Parish or community including anything from nice picnic spots to ancient woodland, if you wish!

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Find out about the Challenges Facing your Environment

As well as helping you to find things in your area, map these out and get your community involved, the toolkit has lots of information on finding out about the challenges facing your environment and practical things that you can do to help.

Indeed, the whole toolkit is structured around the idea that people will draw up a community action plan with a view to getting involved in protecting and enhancing the environment.

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Develop an Effective Action Plan

The toolkit aims to help people and communities organise themselves so that they can go out there, find what's in their area and get involved in protecting and enhancing it. One of the keys to a successful action plan is having the community involved and right behind it. To help you with this the toolkit has:

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