maintain and equip parks, gardens, landscaped areas, woodlands, open spaces, playing fields, playgrounds and recreational amenity spaces”


exception - the Trust’s money and its assets can only be used to pursue its social purpose, which is defined in the Trust’s Articles of Association. The Articles state that the primary object is to provide, maintain and equip parks, gardens, landscaped areas, woodlands, open spaces, playing fields, playgrounds and recreational amenity spaces within the Borough of Milton Keynes and the environs, for the benefit of the inhabitants and visitors to the area. This land is referred to as the green estate.


All the work undertaken by the Trust is for the benefit of the public. Here are some examples of what the Trust does:


- Nearly all of the 4,500 acres of green space the Trust owns in Milton Keynes is available to the public to use freely, every day of the year. The benefits of parks to society, to the economy, to health and well-being and to the local and global environment are well known and widely accepted.


- The environmental education and the events programmes, organised by the Trust, raise awareness of the parks in the local area and help people better understand and appreciate the green environment within the new city.


- Volunteers’ programme (around 150 volunteer groups) enables local people to become actively engaged in our work - helping us provide better facilities and undertake work we would not otherwise be able to do, and helping them by giving them meaningful and rewarding activities.


- The promotion of the Parks and of the Trust encourages the residents of Milton Keynes to use and to value their parks and to interact with the Trust, so that we may understand their needs and respond to their suggestions.


- The management of the Trust’s investments is undertaken solely for the purpose of providing the income and the long term financial security, so


that the Trust is able to carry out its charitable objects in perpetuity.


Management of the Trust


The Board employs a Chief Executive, who leads the management team. The Trust has around forty-three employees. They have a small Direct Works Team of seven staff, but most of the physical landscape management work is undertaken by independent contractors who tender for the work. The staff team comprises four sections:


Community - liaison with the community, organising events and activities to ‘animate’ the parks, management of recreation and leisure uses including licences, environmental education, volunteer management


Operations - the physical management of the green estate; inspections and safety checks of the parks, play areas and equipment and facilities; dealing with adverse possession


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“The primary object is to provide,


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