 Immediately upon its foundation the Society received from an anonymous trust the sum of £15,000 (equivalent to around £596,000 in 2016) to buy land for open spaces, the land later to be vested in the Birmingham Corporation.As a result, several areas of land were purchased, transformed into parks and handed over to the City authorities.In most cases the Civic Society has retained until the present the right to be consulted about the management of these parks.