Case Study: Hyde Park Source

Hyde Park Source is a community organisation in Leeds set up in 1998. It runs a range of projects including a Design-and-Build service, Outdoor Education and Community Garden groups. It aims to improve health and wellbeing by working with local communities ‘to help them improve their surroundings, designing and creating attractive, exciting and safe places for people to live, work and play’. Co-production is very important to Hyde Park Source’s vision and all projects are run with, and for the benefit of, volunteers. However, it has a long waiting list of volunteers seeking to work on its community projects as well as many existing volunteers wishing to continue participating on a long-term basis. This creates a challenge when space and project capacity is limited. Hyde Park Source wants to manage the needs of both existing and new volunteers so they can support both groups in benefiting from the experiences on offer.