Love Parks Week

If you do anything this summer, be sure to visit your local park. From energetic street dancing, cycling and boot camps to relaxing yoga, tai chi and tree listening.

Get an eco-buzz with bugs, bees and butterflies or for the more green fingered wildflowers, food growing and conservation volunteering. Make a splash with fishing, waterslides and pond dipping or for the creative, al fresco art and crafts.

Family fun days, global festivals, picnics, open air theatre and foot tapping jazz, blues and folk – the list seems endless!

Where else could provide so many different types of events for so many different people, other than our parks and green spaces? 

Love Parks Week celebrates just this and will be delivering over 1000, mostly free, events set to bring one million people together to experience new things, meet new friends, learn new crafts and explore our natural environment. (See fun A-Z guide).

Love Parks Week, now in its sixth year, is a campaign which aims to raise awareness and call for continual reinvestment of green spaces. This year the campaign is also running a Park Health Check to get people to really think about and assess the quality of their local park and encouraging a greater sense of stewardship by creating a Love Parks Club.

Find out what's on in your local area by visiting www.loveparksweek.org.uk, and whilst you're there don't forget to give your Park a Health Check!