Friends of Firs Farm is a group of friendly volunteers with a common goal of improving Firs Farm. Founded in August 2013 by Toni Guiver with the support of Gail Nielen and Geraldine Cosh. We set about talking to friends and neighbours to identify what we were looking for from our underused local green space, Firs Farm. We quickly found a number of interested local residents and began the process of how we would bring in more members and formalise the group. So began the process in which we hand posted more than 1200 letters to local residents, registered members, worked with the council to engage with the local residents as part of their flood relief scheme and our improvements project, elected our first committee of officers, wrote our constitution, signed an agreement with the local authority as a recognised formal Friends group in 2014.