The new-look OSS website

There’s a new look for the website of one of the country’s oldest conservation groups.

The Open Spaces Society has revamped its clunky online presence and brought it up-to-date with an easier to navigate site, with pictures and links to information on topics which include village greens, rights of way and commons. There is also a short history of the organisation, founded in 1865 as the Commons Preservation Society.

Visitors can now join the OSS online, make donations and buy the society’s publications. The society’s factsheets are also available.

General secretary Kate Ashbrook said: “We want to tell everyone about the crucial job we doing to protect our precious areas of green space and our public paths, and how we can help you to save those places you hold dear.

“We hope our new website will do just that.”

The OSS campaigns regularly on behalf of communities wanting to register land as greens, protect common land and assert rights of way.