National Park City

Who we are

London National Park City is a vibrant and active convenor of practical grassroots and community-led action to support local nature recovery in neighbourhoods across the capital. 

Our Charity, The National Park City Foundation (1173267) coordinates and supports our grassroots movement across London, to deliver the shared commitments and ambition outlined in the Charter for London National Park City. We celebrate and support the work of thousands of individuals and organisations actively making London greener, healthier and wilder.

We attract, recruit, empower, and support a diverse community of volunteer Rangers within every London Borough capable of supporting communities and making their neighbourhoods greener, healthier and wilder.

In doing so our aim is to make our city a place where people and nature are better connected, by building the capacity, reach, resource, skills and confidence of our volunteer Ranger community in every London neighbourhood.

Our culture and values

London National Park City is about the whole place and landscape, taking into account all of the human and non-human activity across each of London’s 33 Boroughs, encompassing the green belt, the watersheds of the 41 rivers across London, and the 49.7% of London that can be classed as green and blue space. 

As a National Park City, London has taken the lead in helping to connect people in cities with nature. This is especially urgent, because the climate and biodiversity crises are significantly driven by people’s disconnection from nature, especially in cities.

The National Park City story helps us to recognise just how valuable, important and significant urban ecosystems can be.

When people and communities are connected with nature, they are more likely to exhibit pro-environmental behaviours and take action to mitigate climate change and biodiversity loss. Re-connecting people and nature is therefore a crucial and timely intervention

Our aim is to grow a generous, active, participatory, community of empowered citizens, each of whom is capable of leading nature and biodiversity enhancing activities within their own communities, working with other Rangers, and supporting the local groups they work with.

Equality, diversity and inclusion policy

Diversity is key to the success of our movement and we’re keen to hear from people with different perspectives, backgrounds, skills and experience. We believe everyone should have an equal voice in the future of our cities and everyone should benefit from easy access to high-quality urban greenspaces. 

We continue to extend our commitment to diversity and inclusion, and we explicitly operate as an anti-racist organisation, and each year contribute to the RACE Report which seeks to address the under-representation of minority ethnic people in the environmental sector, and to improve how we represent the communities we serve.