Current Projects

As well as offering consultancy, Sensory Trust undertake short- and long-term projects which often include elements of research and dissemination of findings. The issues surrounding access to outdoor space and quality of experience in outdoor space are complex, and the diversity of the projects we are involved in reflects this. This page lists our current projects. For more in-depth information, take a look through our completed projects too.

Current projects include:

• Mote Park. Producing an Audience Development Plan and providing advice and recommendations on the Access Plan.
• Cornwall Care project. Working with residents at Trevarna House and Cornwall Care staff on a project that will involve them in the planning, design and re-development of their outdoor environment.
• User engagement and staff training day. As part of the Sensory Trust's continued program of furthering disabled people's access and enjoyment of the outdoor environment and public green space, we held an activity day at Lanhydrock House and Gardens.
• Eden Project. An on-going series of projects with Eden to develop inclusive experiences for visitors.
• New Ground. A project led by the Eden Project to develop events and community narratives as a focus of change in peripheral regions such as Cornwall that have lost their defining industries
• Accessible information. Improving access to public open space through the development and dissemination of accessible information.
• Ask. A one year consultation project involving disabled and non-disabled children in the evaluation of public outdoor space.
• Connect. This project connects older disabled people and people with learning disabilities with their local public spaces as a way of building lasting links between them and their wider communities.
• Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC). Looking at how the CWGC can make its sites more accessible.

Mote Park

From January through to July 2008 we are working in partnership with ACTA, a landscape architecture practice based in East Sussex that has won a tender to deliver a Conservation Management Plan, Access Plan and Audience Development Plan for Mote Park, Maidstone.

Our role is to produce the Audience Development Plan through our usual style of community engagement, alongside providing advice and recommendations to ACTA on the inclusive aspects of the Access Plan and the best approach to organising workshops for stakeholders.

Mote Park is 450 acres of Grade II registered historic landscape situated in Maidstone. Once a large estate, the park now offers a number of public recreational facilities; however there is now a need to update management plans for the park, creating a 21st century interpretation of the park’s historic content.

Cornwall Care Project

We are working with residents at Trevarna House and Cornwall Care staff on a project that will involve them in the planning, design and re-development of their outdoor environment; garden areas that currently provide very little in the way of sensory richness and fail to encourage them and visitors to make the most of their gardens.

Accessible information

This project is about improving access to public open space through the development and dissemination of accessible information. Involving people will be an important part of the work. People with learning difficulties, sensory impairments, physical disabilities, as well as young and older people, will be involved in planning and producing accessible information that can be used to make environments more accessible for everyone. More about the accessible information project.

Eden Project

Sensory Trust has a long-standing relationship with the Eden Project. We have worked with them since the beginning to provide accessible and inclusive experiences for all visitors to the site. More about our work with Eden...

New Ground

Sensory Trust is now collaborating on a project led by the Eden Project to develop events and community narratives as a focus of change in peripheral regions such as Cornwall that have lost their defining industries. The project partners believe that effective regeneration of areas that have seen the collapse of defining industries should be lead by a sophisticated understanding of community narratives rather than a focus on the built infrastructure and the attraction and retention of new businesses. More about New Ground...

Ask

Ask is a one year consultation project involving disabled and non-disabled children in the evaluation of public outdoor space. Proven techniques will be used to ascertain the needs of all people, to inform future design and management decisions. The project will involve four consultation programmes, at three sites in the UK and three in Japan, using proven techniques developed by Sensory Trust in the UK and the Association for Children’s Environment (ACE) in Japan. More about Ask...

Connect

This three year project connects older disabled people and people with learning disabilities with their local public spaces as a way of building lasting links between them and their wider communities. Both groups of people have been identified as commonly excluded from the benefits of using and getting involved in public green space and are often overlooked by public service providers. More about Connect...

Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC)

Looking at how the CWGC can make its sites more accessible. In phase one of the project Sensory Trust is looking at the processes for producing information across all media and looking at how this can be provided in a more accessible way. This phase includes looking at the CWGC policies and strategy for providing information. The ultimate aim is to improve accessibility of CWGC sites in UK and worldwide.

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