London became the world’s first National Park City in July 2019, so that Londoners and urban nature could be better connected. With businesses, councils, and community groups we’re making our city greener, wilder and healthier!
We’ve launched our first ever pop-up visitors centre at 109 Fleet Street. In this shared community space we’ll explore how everyone can benefit and contribute every day in realising a city where all Londoners can connect with urban nature, supported by our 160 volunteer Rangers will lead outdoor activities, nature engagement, and climate actions. We’re open to the public during Wednesday, Thursday and Friday afternoons and by appointment.
You can support our Crowdfunder where every penny raised will directly support activities for the benefit of communities across London, enabled by or hosted within our new visitors centre.
We’ve been fortunate to get the space free of rent and rates thanks to our friends at the amazing charity ASTOP who help charities like ours access free space. But we do need to cover some costs like electricity, and we want to have funds available for resources and materials for each of the community events.
It’s never been more important to reconnect people with nature. To help more people recognise how wild and rich in biodiversity our city is with over 15,000 species, 8.4 million trees (nearly one for each of us), and almost half of the city comprising of green and blue space with our many wonderful, but at risk, parks, gardens, rivers, allotments and community spaces.
We really want to make the most of this unique opportunity, and realise our ambitions to make this first visitors centre THE place to bring all Londoner together to help make our city greener, healthier and wilder!
14th – 16th March, 13:00 – 17:00
A festival of fabric! The Fabric Lab collective from Dagenham will be taking over, sewing machines in tow. Expect sessions on sewing, mending and reusing and inspirational stories. Bring in any clothing items for mending or ideas for reusing fabric! This is the first of our Festival weeks and is supported by ReLondon and the wonderful legacy team at the Participatory City Foundation.
