Nelson City Council

Founders Heritage Park is managed through the Community Services Division of Nelson City Council with the Founders Heritage Park Committee responsible for setting its strategic direction.

In July 2005, the Committee (then a subcommittee of the Community Services Committee) adopted a Strategic Plan for the period 2005-2010. A year and a half later in November 2006, this strategic direction for Founders was reviewed by the Committee which considered the paper 'The Future of Founders'. This paper argued that the vision and mission previously agreed were going to be very difficult to achieve. The paper suggested instead that Founders should refocus itself as a community park and present and develop an increasing number of community events principally for the benefit of local people. These events would be more attractive to attend because of the heritage ambience of Founders and could include some heritage-focused events each year. Founders would thus continue to have both heritage and community aims but, in future, the former would support the latter rather than the other way round.

The Committee agreed with this approach and decided to update the Strategic Plan to reflect this new emphasis in direction. This is the updated Plan which now runs for the five year period from July 2007 to June 2012 to coincide with the Council's financial years.

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Download the Founders Heritage Park Strategic Plan 2007 - 2012 (PDF @ 1.8MB).