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Our Values

At the very heart of the friends’ mission is a Nurture Strategy, with a focus for building community and embracing the environmental value of the park. We recognise certain values hold the key to that:

Amenity Value

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  • Furthering:

    • Enjoyment of the park:

      • Hosting fun community events

      • Facilities - we’re campaigning for:

        • A new cafe

        • Establishing new toilets for by the lower car park

    • Pathway quality, with a view to enhance disability access

    • Health and fitness, well-being and mindfulness

      • Red trail (walking/jogging route)

      • Children's Play area

      • Outdoor Gym

      • Lake and ponds

    • Strategies to limit anti-social behaviour in the park e.g. CCTV, 

  • Encouraging and supporting volunteering e.g. friends, Crawley Model Engineers, Wildlife Trust etc.

Conservation Value

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  • The park has various habitats e.g. grassland, woodland, meadow, lake, ponds, boggy areas 

  • We endeavor to work with Crawley Borough Council to develop and further a Habitat Action Plan

  • We recognize a need to:

    • Conserve and enhance existing habitats

    • Recover habitats which have been previously lost

    • Assist in survey work e.g. to support evidence based strategies for conservation

    • Consult local groups which have seen through projects e.g. Common Spotted Orchid establishment at Southwater Park 

    • Identifying uniqueness which is worth preserving

    • Identifying opportunities to create new habitats e.g. bug hotel

    • Establish strategies to encourage pollinators

    • Keep in mind resilience with climate change

    • Keep long-term maintainability as practical and minimal as possible

    • Look after soil health - soil erosion is a bane for all parks!

Cultural Value

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  • Providing a platform and comfortable space for community engagement to promote diversity and embrace multi-cultural values within Crawley e.g. like Community Picnic

  • Sharing a narrative around the history of Goffs Park and the surrounding area, to:

  • Enrich local knowledge and encourage enjoyment/appreciation of the park e.g. through:

  • Refreshed online presence - e.g. website/blog/social media space

  • Information boards around the park

  • Feature for Crawley Museum

  • Orienteering Adventure with posts and QR code points

  • Involving local groups which further cultural values e.g. Tangible Hands, Diverse Crawley, any local historical groups/institutions

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Horticultural Value

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  • Creating community spaces for horticultural activity

  • Creating horticultural points of interest e.g. by establishing:

  • A blossom trail e.g. with orchard, magnolias. 

  • A tree trial e.g. so people can find and identify listed trees.

  • Interesting feature points with plants to help enhance amenity value.

  • Heritage varieties e.g. apple trees in orchard.

  • Furthering the horticultural value would broaden grant opportunities for the park

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