GoParksLondon aims to encourage you to enjoy London’s parks, share with the world why you love your park, why parks matter to you, and get involved in your local park friends group. Think of it as Love Parks Week, but all year round!
In particular we aim to:
- Promote London’s huge diversity of parks, particularly the less-well-visited ones, and encourage both residents and visitors to get out and discover them
- Raise awareness of the critical role ‘friends’ groups play, promote their activities and events and encourage people to get involved
- Support friends groups to flourish through advice and publicity with our newsletters, webinars and bespoke support.
Working to generate public support for parks helps us to protect them for future generations. London’s parks and green spaces are under more pressure than ever so we need to continuously demonstrate why we must protect them.
Our parks provide an unparalleled range of opportunities for recreation, play and sport, health and well-being, attractive and safe travel routes, nature appreciation, education and heritage and community get-togethers.
They support eco-systems, helping with water management and air cooling.
They are crucial for our wildlife and biodiversity.
In London there are around 900 parks friends groups – groups of volunteers – getting together to protect, improve and bring communities together in their local parks.
You can support our work by making a donation today!
#GoParksLondon is made possible with the support of the City Bridge Trust, the Mayor of London and The National Lottery
City Bridge Trust is the funding arm of Bridge House Estates. It was established to make use of funds surplus to bridge requirements and provides grants totalling around £20m per year towards charitable activity benefitting Greater London.
The Mayor of London is the executive of the Greater London Authority. The current mayor is Sadiq Khan, who took up office on 9 May 2016.
The National Lottery Community Fund distributes over £600m a year to communities across the UK, raised by players of The National Lottery.
Contact Us
We'd love to hear your comments and feedback. Find our contact details over on the Contact Us page.
The Big Green London Map Consortium
The Big Green London map consortium comprises: CPRE London, London Friends of Green Spaces Network, London Gardens Trust, Greentalk, and National Park City Foundation.
CPRE London is a regional branch of the national environmental charity, Campaign to Protect Rural England. The CPRE London branch campaigns to save Green Belt, Metropolitan Open Land and other green spaces within Greater London, and to make our capital city a better place to live for everyone.
London Friends of Greenspaces Network (LFGN) are the network for the 600+ local Friends Groups and borough-wide Friends Forums for public green spaces across London. We share information, good practices and work to ensure parks and green spaces are adequately resourced. We also actively promote the development of strong Friends Forums for every London borough.
Having successfully campaigned to make London a National Park City, the National Park City Foundation is a registered charity established to bring the idea of National Park Cities to life both in London and internationally.
The London Gardens Trust is a registered charity, affiliated to the national Gardens Trust, that champions all of London's historic green space in the planning process based on knowledge which we cultivate through extensive research by volunteers and capture in our Inventory, made available to the public through London Gardens Online. We also celebrate the beauty, horticulture, history, ecology and value of green space, including through our main fundraising event, Open Garden Squares Weekend.
The consortium's digital and geospatial solutions partner, providing community and map-driven solutions delivered through their Greentalk platform. Connecting people and landscapes.
Data, Copyrights and Acknowledgements
Mapped spaces are based on the Spaces to Visit dataset. Dataset created by Greenspace Information for Greater London CIC (GiGL), 2022 – Contains Ordnance Survey and public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0
SINC data is based on the GiGL SINCs Open Data dataset. Dataset created by Greenspace Information for Greater London CIC (GiGL), 2022 – Contains Ordnance Survey and public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Map also contains data © MapBox, © OpenStreetMap contributors.
Icons made by Freepik, Vignesh Oviyan and Smashicons from www.flaticon.com are licensed by CC 3.0 BY
All code © Greentalk Limited.
All other park and open space information is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
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