my naturehoodwhat’s REALLY on your doorstep?

Why?

The problem

• We have fragmented wildlife

• We have fragmented communities

• People want to help but lack the tools and information

• People don’t believe their individual actions make a difference

What would make people get involved?

• People want to live in a “good” neighbourhood/community

• Empowers people to be responsible and have an impact in their patch

• Recognise that people can get involved in their way

• Personal recognition

• Local status e.g blue flag beaches, Britain in Bloom

• Bringing communities together

• Businesses can contribute to their communities

• Greater than the sum of parts

“naturehood”it’s as much about community as it is about nature

• High level overview of your neighbourhood including indexed score – community connection with and action for nature

• Profile of naturehoodbiodiversity

• Key data shown on map

• Tag nature sightings• Record actions for nature

• Individual• Community

• Layers including• Trails “mapmywalk”• Greenspace• Nature deserts

naturehood actionsindividual and community

Communities – recruitment and selection

Open call for communities

to get involved?

Ask Big Lottery for selection of

winners?

Ask communities

already engaged with

partners?

Communities - selection criteria

• Representative of ethnic/economic mix in UK

• Nature rich and nature poor

• Fast turnaround

• Strong community leadership or organisation to bring people together

• Urban to rural

Prototyping- next steps

• Involve community in co-creation

• Learning from previous projects – failures/successes

• Being clear about pour design principles (e.g. open data)

• List of MVP features• What data do we need?

Partners

• Swarm – bringing people together (community co-creation)

• mySociety – development and design

• NIU partner organisations – resources, strategy, contacts, data

• Data providers• OS

• Statutory bodies

• Media partner (could be part of benefits to community)

• Funders – Big Lottery, HLF…

Timeline

• Tomorrow – incorporate ideas from Swarm

• May – funding and planning

• June – rapid sprint. Develop mvp for testing and get access to seed communities

• July/August – pilot. Iteration based on community feedback

• September – wrap up, final design, funding applications, business plan