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Resources to help bring nature into every neighbourhood

Browse highlights from a library of the latest evidence, case studies, guidance and expertise to help local authorities, community organisations and their partners to drive change.

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A lady stands in a lush urban garden, watering a raised bed of veg. The sunlight reflects off the watering can sprinkles, whilst gardening equipment and a greenhouse sit behind.

©National Trust Images / Rebecca Hughes

Get started in your town or city

There are many benefits to bringing more nature into urban areas. But as the saying goes, it’s not easy being green.

Nature Towns and Cities is building a library of resources to help local authorities, partners and community organisations take steps to improve green space.

Visit our resources library to discover guidance, tools and best practice from expert partners behind the programme, together with industry specialists and sector pioneers across the UK. Remember to check back regularly, as this library will grow to include many more success stories from places like yours.

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Tried-and-tested ways to bring nature home

Our ‘Get started with...’ packages offer tried-and-tested solutions to the challenges facing our sector.

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Case study

Guidance

Community guide to green social prescribing

21-10-2025

Hear from people running nature-based activities in local green spaces to support better health and wellbeing.
Communities, Health & wellbeing - Green social prescribing
A young woman with knitted yellow hat carries two large garden rakes across a field, with autumnal trees and fields behind her.

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Case study

Guidance

Unlock finance for green and blue spaces

12-02-2025

Discover ways to build a more diverse funding model for natural spaces in your town or city, to support wellbeing, nature recovery and economic growth.
Funding & finance, Nature recovery - Habitat banking
A group of teenagers sits around a large, having what looks like a fun and engaging discussion. They're dressed ready for the outdoors in coats and jumpers.

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Case study

Community food growers’ guide

13-10-2025

Hear from those in the grow about what it takes to create good food and good feelings together. A guide to community food growing, starting from nothing.
Communities - Community engagement, Community growing
A young man with a pink and yellow cap harvests an abundant crop of food in an urban community garden.

Meet the nature makers

Hear first-hand from people delivering benefits for people and nature across the UK.

Discover top tips and insights from people working across the country in local authorities and their partner teams to improve green and blue spaces. Discover how they overcame challenges, from developing high level strategies to delivering change on the ground.

Meet the nature makers
A person carrying a plant in a plastic pot.

©National Trust Images / James Dobson

Resources for accreditation

Our accreditation scheme recognises towns and cities in England that are putting mutual benefits for people and nature at the heart of their plans.

Guidance

Case study

Visioning together: a partnership approach

12-02-2025

How to work with partners to develop a strategic vision for nature, green space and communities.
Accreditation - Community engagement
Group of people in natural area outside of a set of flats

Guidance

Local authority guide to partnership working for people and nature

24-06-2025

Nature and people grow stronger by reaching up and out. Develop your local authority’s approach to partnership working with our explorer’s guide and toolkit.
Accreditation, Volunteering - Community engagement, Park foundations
Volunteers moving soil into a wheelbarrow.

Webinar

Getting started on your accreditation journey

01-04-2025

From the archive - this webinar detailed how to get started on your journey to becoming a nature towns or city through accreditation. Watch the recording and download the content shared.
Accreditation
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The Urban Forest Accelerator toolkit

Case studies, guidance and tools to help transform your approach to urban forest planning and management, and deliver equitable benefits for people and nature.

Urban canopy cover in grey areas is declining fast, meaning communities across the UK risk losing out on the social, economic and environmental benefits that city trees bring.

Local authorities are uniquely placed to help reverse this trend. From master planning to tree equity, community outreach to funding, the Urban Forest Accelerator toolkit has it covered.

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A person running along a tree lined path in a park.

©National Trust Images / Paul Harris