The Parks
Trust
- Case Study: The Parks Trust - Web Application
The Parks Trust Progressive Web Application for Charity Asset Management
Milton Keynes boasts a vast amount of green space and parkland, balancing the common misconception that MK is all concrete and roundabouts.
- The Parks Trust is a local charity responsible for managing and protecting these areas, ensuring it stays in peak condition and recognising the importance of effective charity web development in supporting that mission.
The organisation embodies the idea that part of what makes Milton Keynes so unique is the unexpected environments you encounter around the next bend so making sure theres no big surprise around the corner as a bigger part of their remit than a lot of the public realise. While the Trust is responsible for keeping all of those areas safe and clean, their work goes beyond reactive maintenance. A new progressive web application, custom-built for The Parks Trust, now covers the whole of Milton Keynes, surveying and monitoring assets from the sculptures in a park to the trees on the verge of a roadside, offering a digital-first solution to improve efficiency.
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Project Outline:
Creative Strategy / Web Design / WordPress / Eco Hosting / Security / Website Support
The Trust has a fantastic public-facing web presence developed during a recent upgrade to their Visual Identity. However, they reached out to Makilo for a technical solution to one of the emerging challenges of looking after Milton Keynes’ green spaces and their transition to digital infrastructure for cataloguing and surveying all the assets they manage.
The Parks Trust needed a solution that could help streamline the current process and put a system into the hands of the Officers in the field, who better understand what’s unique about the MK environment and how to maintain the landscape proactively. Rather than relying on paper surveys and notes on-site, which would be written up and uploaded upon return to the office, they sought a more efficient, digital-first approach through a progressive web application.
“The Parks Trust had a clear idea of how to improve their working processes. Makilo aimed to test any assumptions that had been made and tailor the application to provide a flexible, scalable digital platform, a progressive web app that could be built out further as their needs evolved.”
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Solution:
After a period of consultation and a stakeholder workshop, we worked alongside the team at The Parks Trust to specify the requirements for a progressive web application that would address reporting and survey work at the required scale.
We adopted an online approach that prioritised clarity and addressed the realities of patchy signal, health and safety concerns, and challenging working environments. We chose the .gov design framework as an easy-to-use approach to formatting the complex survey structures and tens of thousands of instances relating to just the city’s trees. We also supported a management logic that allowed the entire team to not only keep track of the parkland in a more streamlined way but also focus on addressing Trees, Tree Groups, and Zones, alongside the distribution of staff resources and handovers between workers.
This project demonstrates Makilo’s expertise in both charity web development and the creation of progressive web applications that support operational efficiency, stakeholder engagement, and long-term management of charitable assets.
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