Saving Badgers Park

It's interesting to read about parks and their value to a community. Badgers Park, Old Bar isn't a city hub full of runners and readers. It is a very natural respite from the built landscape, frequented by Kangaroos and other wildlife. It's a free corridor to our magnificent beach and holds no signs of neglect or vandalism. This in itself if a sign of how residents with the help of our council value it.

The following is quoted from Understanding the Contribution Parks and Green Spaces can make to Improving People's lives.

"While well managed parks and green spaces can encourage visitors, and enhance social inclusion and cohesion, poor quality spaces, scarred by the evidence of vandalism and neglect, dominated by single groups and anti-social behaviour, can be a blight on any community. It is a measure of peoples‘ commitment to green spaces and belief in their importance that there are so many examples of communities working together to transform their local space."

And then this -  “Perhaps more significantly, the acts of improving, renewing or even saving a park can build extraordinary levels of social capital in a neighbourhood” This is our invitation.

Saving a park is an opportunity for this generation to reassert it's value and work to build new ways of community and commitment with what Council is trying to provide.  Old Bar already has many community groups who work well within their focus. But our natural environment which has been handed to us as generational heritage, such as the parks, have only us to defend it as it can't defend itself.