SEARCH ON UK'S FAVOURITE PARKS

Charity Fields in Trust has announced that its search for the UK’s Favourite Parks is back this summer and is calling for nominations.

The campaign has returned for the first time since 2019 and intends to shine a light on the nation's green spaces.

Having acted as sanctuary to so many over the past few years, Fields in Trust say they are bringing back the campaign to find the UK’s Favourite Parks to ensure that they continue to be celebrated in a post-pandemic world.

The charity recently commissioned a study which found that almost half of us have visited local parks more often than we used to as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic. Coupled with research that has shown that access to nature was one of the main ways people have supported their mental health during lockdowns, Fields in Trust is determined that this year’s campaign celebrates the spaces that we relied on.

Chief executive of Fields in Trust, Helen Griffiths, said, “At a time when things were so hard for so many, these places provided respite; now, through our UK’s Favourite Parks campaign, we want to give people the chance to show their appreciation for the green spaces that were there for them.”

The search for the UK’s Favourite Parks is now open. Nominations run until Tuesday 5 July, before the chosen parks go head-to-head in a public vote.

The UK’s Favourite Parks was first awarded in 2015 and has handed out the title to three parks from across the UK: inaugural winner, Telford Town Park; Rouken Glen Park in 2016; and Blackpool’s Stanley Park in both 2017 and 2019.