GoParksLondon

Want to find out about parks in your area? Want to know more about park friends groups? Would you like to volunteer in a local group? Do you just love a map?! Then GoParksLondon is for you.

We’ve been running the GoParksLondon project for over five years, in partnership with the London Friends of Green Spaces Network. We do this because community involvement with parks helps to ensure they are well managed and deliver maximum benefits for local people – which in turn decreases the likelihood of them coming under threat from development (being built over). When parks do come under threat – friends groups are critical to fighting to save them. Find out more about our work, helping local groups to save London’s parks and green spaces.

As part of this we have:

• mapped and created listings for over 4,000 parks and green spaces, on an attractive, interactive online map – also arranged by borough for convenience
• worked with over 250 park friends groups to created detailed listings for each park
• helped each borough and local friends promote their parks, their group, and the social and volunteering opportunities they offer, from nature walks to volunteering days
• supporting the development of local borough networks (networks of friends groups local to each borough)
• run the London Friends of Green Spaces Network, sending regular bulletins, and organising meetings and events to keep London’s (approximately!) 900 London park friends groups up to date with the latest news, views and practices.

Explore London’s parks and the friends groups near you GoParksLondon.