About Nottingham
Open Spaces Forum

NOSF is an independent charity which brings together all of the volunteer gardening groups in Nottingham, including Friends of Groups, community gardeners, partner organisations and other stakeholders to create a support network. We aim to work together and in partnership with Nottingham City Council and other public landowners to promote, protect, conserve, and enhance the open and green spaces of our City.

We have developed the Green Map of Nottingham to try to make sure as many people as possible have an awareness of and access to the beautiful green open spaces in our city and to share the best places to play on the swings, exercise the dog or simply enjoy a walk amongst the trees.

We now need your help to fill the map with as much useful information as possible about your favourite green spaces, please! The best people to ask about local green spaces are the communities that use them, so please get in touch if you are willing to help us – it doesn’t matter if it’s the biggest park or the smallest ‘space inbetween’, if it’s an important green space for you and your community, we would like to know where it is and what’s special about it, so please get in touch with us at info@nosf.org.uk

We appreciate that not everyone has access to electronic devices or is entirely comfortable with using the internet. Please be assured that a paper version of the Green Map of Nottingham will follow as soon as funding is available to us. If any businesses are willing to help us with funding the paper version, please contact us at info@nosf.org.uk

Thcharityobjects are:

  • To advance the education of the public in the enjoyment, understanding, application and conservation of open spaces within the city of Nottingham.
  • To promote for the benefit of the public the conservation, protection, and improvement of the physical and natural environment (including parks, play areas, sports fields, allotments, nature reserves, woodlands and cemeteries) within the City of Nottingham.
  • To enhance public health and wellbeing through access to and activity in open spaces.