Dear colleagues,

 

 

Botanic gardens through the Communities in Nature initiative are growing their social role. Join our Communities in Nature webinar to learn more how to make your site more accessible whether you work at a museum or any other heritage organisation.

 

Communities in Nature Webinars #1:

 

Making your Garden Accessible with Ian Edwards, Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh

Wednesday, 25^th May , 2016 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM BST

 

Do you want to make your garden more accessible? Are you interested in finding out about how to engage with new groups such as mothers from disadvantaged areas, young adults or people with dementia?

 

Join Ian Edwards, Head of Public Engagement at Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh as he discusses how they have broken down the barriers between them and some of their underrepresented audiences.

 

"The Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh welcomes all visitors and aims to provide best possible access to everyone in order that they enjoy their visit to our Garden whether it is for a walk, a guided tour, an event or exhibition, meal, meeting or conference."

Discover how they achieve this as well as tips for how to improve accessibility of your site. This interactive webinar will cover successful events that have engaged new audiences, the change in mind-set required to develop successful projects aimed at access and how tackling national priorities has led to a more sustainable future at RBGE. There will also be a Q&A so you can get advice catered to the work of your garden. Sign up now! http://app.webinarsonair.com/register/?uuid=1bce59bdc47d406eab542173bbfffa57

 

This is part of the Communities in Nature Webinars brought to you by BGCI on the last Wednesday of every month May-September. Others in the series include:

Bringing organisational change with Jennifer Schwarz-Ballard, Chicago Botanic Garden

Research and evaluation with Theano Moussouri, University College London

Working with diverse audiences with Poppy Szaybo, Diversity Heritage Group

Fundraising for social inclusion with Sharon Willoughby Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria

 

Communities in Nature supports botanic gardens to grow their social role and work with their communities on common issues of social and environmental importance, for the enduring benefit of those communities, the gardens themselves, and towards a sustainable future for our planet. Head to BGCI's website for more information about how to do this at your garden.