Features and benefits
GreenSTAT provides a comprehensive, versatile and cost effective method for gathering residents’ views, creating an evidence base and providing a variety of benchmarking opportunities. Find out more about the features and benefits of GreenSTAT.
Features
- Gathers the views of residents about their parks and open spaces
- Creates an evidence base to demonstrate a full and thorough understanding of the needs of visitors and the wider community
- A flexible, versatile and comprehensive package, adaptable to all circumstances
- Can be done on both a site by site basis and/or for whole parks service
- Provides a suite of comparable questionnaires for online, self-completion or interviewing, encouraging representative feedback across the community
- Easy to use online facility, accessible and convenient for the general public
- Views of non-users can be captured
- Any number of green spaces can be included on the system for each managing organisation
- Permits comparison of one green space with another within any local authority area
- Site audit section for performance management linked to PPG17 typology
- Creates mailing lists facilitating two-way communication between managers and customers
- Monitors change and progress overtime through use of a consistent system
- Provides evidence for celebration of improvement and success
- Developed for and endorsed by HLF for its ’Parks for People’ grant scheme - www.hlf.org.uk
- Endorsed by CABE Space as one of three quality assessment tools for green space, alongside Green Flag Award and SpaceShaper
- Clients receive advice and support in marketing the system, including customised templates for the production of publicity material (posters etc.)
Benefits
- Gives parks and green space managers the ability to benchmark against national and regional standards
- Provides opportunities to establish local benchmarking groups
- Provides opportunities to establish benchmarking groups between similar organisations
- Provides an evidence base for political and budgetary support as well as grant applications
- Proven tool – now being used by over 60 authorities and piloted in Reading
- Managed by GreenSpace, an independent organisation with a long-term interest in maintaining the integrity of the database and using the data gathered to the benefit of the parks and green space sector
- Will save you time and effort, eliminating the need to self-develop questionnaires and databases
- Will save you money
- knowing what your visitors want leads to more informed and effective spending
- developed and tested system
- Cost effective method of capturing high number of responses for an unlimited number of sites