Friends of Basingbourne Park

Membership

Friends of Basingbourne Park is a non-profit organisation. We are local residents who wish to make a difference to the park and ensure that is utilised as best as possible.

Preserving the natural landscape for everyone’s enjoyment.

We would like to invite you to join us in supporting the park, woodlands and community by joining the Friends of Basingbourne Park. By joining the group for £2.50 per individual or £5 for a family you will be helping us to continue with our work.

Membership fees are use to cover our modest overheads and administration costs and provide insurance cover for working parties, action days and social events.

To join, please complete the membership form and bring it along to our next meeting or follow the instructions on where to send it.

We only use your data to send membership information such as notifications of events in the park and when subscriptions are due. However you can unsubscribe.

If you have any further questions about membership of Friends of Basingbourne Park please contact us.

Documents

These documents will tell you all about the group.

Membership Form

Membership Form to join FoBP

FoBP Constitution

Constitution

Development Plan

2017-2022 Basingbourne Park Development Plan

FAQs

How does being a member help the Park?

Membership gives you a voice to help shape the future of the park. Increased membership numbers allow us to apply for a bigger range of grants and to prove that more of the local community supports our aims. Membership fees are use to cover our modest overheads and administration costs and provide insurance cover for working parties, volunteer days and social events.

How does the group help preserve the Heathland?

The Heathland is classified as a “Site of Importance for Nature Conservation”. Keeping the SINC status also means this land will not be built on. Clearing the silver birch, goat willow and a few pines and oak trees which threaten to overgrow the heath, improves the prospects of retaining some of our rarer wet heathland plants and animals that give rise to our “SINC” status. Activities such as the “balsam bashes” hopefully rollback the invasion of these non-native plants too.

All of this helps preserve the Heathland and rare plants for the future.

What are the benefits of being a member?

Being a member allows your voice to be heard and gives you a chance to volunteer and be part of the improvements that the group makes. You can help decide which equipment should be installed in the park in the future. It gives you a chance to be involved with events at the council and to help raise money for further improvements.

You can play Table tennis in the pavilion. You can borrow the bat detectors and have your own bat walk.

You will get monthly emails and reminders of the events in the park.

Volunteering at our events gives you a feeling of satisfaction when you can see the difference that a volunteer day has made. You are surrounded by the cheerfulness of being greeted by the many people who attend our social events. There is the pleasure of seeing all of the happy faces at an event and that warm fuzzy feeling when you’ve achieved something new. Be part of the park community and make like-minded local friends.

How often will I be contacted?

Our main news is in a monthly email and a quarterly newsletter.

You are also welcome to follow us on Twitter/X and our Facebook page for reminders of forthcoming events.

Look out for posters in the noticeboards near the park entrances.