This section of the website contains comprehensive extracts from the Green Flag Award guidance manual for your reference. You are free to use extracts from this manual if you wish, on the condition that you credit them to the Green Flag Award scheme.
The complete manual, ‘Raising the Standard,’ can be purchased directly from The Civic Trust for just £40. To register your interest in purchasing the manual, please complete the following simple purchase enquiry form, and a member of the Green Flag Award team will contact you to further your enquiry.
If you prefer you can download an electronic copy of the manual for free. If you would like to download the manual please click here.
The majority of local authorities now use the Green Flag Award criteria as part of their approach to managing their parks and green spaces. To help standardise this approach CABE Space with the Civic Trust, CLG and the Judges Association Committee has developed the Parks and green spaces self assessment guide: a guide to the self assessment of the quality of your parks and green spaces using the Green Flag Award criteria. Used in conjunction with Raising the standard and ideally with a judge, this guide can be used to self assess all or many of your sites. This will enable you to:
The guide will also be useful to prospective applicants in introducing the criteria.
If you would like to download the free guide please click here.
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