Parks user groups

Get involved with Hackney parks

There are currently 21 active park user groups in Hackney. These groups contribute greatly to the life of parks and green spaces in Hackney through the voluntary activity of people who feel strongly about the care and improvement of Hackney’s green spaces.

Hackney Parks Forum is a voluntary body whose members are made up of park user groups and other environmentally based groups. The Forum represents user groups by working in partnership with Hackney Council in the preservation, conservation, maintenance and development of those spaces for the benefit of the whole community. It also supports individuals and organisations that use parks if they want to form their own user group.

Some of the improvements user groups have been involved in so far are:

• the regeneration of Clapton Pond
• the imminent improvement of the Mansion House in Clissold Park
• the restoration of the London Fields Lido
• the imminent restoration of Springfield Park Conservatory
• the planting of trees and plants plus other conservation projects
• public events such as the Well Street Common annual festival
• the creation of play areas

Existing user groups

• Albion Square
• Butterfield Green
• Cassland Crescent
• Clapton Common
• Clapton Pond
• Clapton Square
• Clissold Park
• De Beauvoir
• East and West Bank Nature Reserve
• Hackney Downs
• Hackney Marsh
• Haggerston Park
• London Fields
• Millfields
• Shoreditch Park
• Springfield Park
• Stoke Newington Common
• Well Street Common

If you are interested in joining a user group for one of your local parks use the links above or see the Hackney Parks Forum Hackney Directory page for general user group information.

Setting up a user group

If you are interested in setting up a new user group see our useful five-step guide on the Setting up a user group page.

Other local organisations

Tree Musketeers

Contact: Russell Miller at  trees@treemusketeers.org.uk
Website: Tree Musketeers

Hackney Environment Forum

Contact: Michael Calderbank at Michael.Calderbank@tiscali.co.uk
Website: www.hackneyenvironment.org.uk

Contact

Parks Development Team
Maurice Bishop House
17 Reading Lane
E8 1HH

Tel: 020 8356 4215
Email: info@hackney.gov.uk

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Page updated: 11 Mar 2010