main content Become a park friend or volunteer

Friends groups are made up of volunteers who wish to have a say in how their local parks are maintained, developed and used.  These groups are constituted and organise entertainment and conservation activities in local parks.  They work in partnership with the local authority to help secure lottery grants for improvements and assist with public consultations.  It is free and easy to join a Friends group or to start one up from scratch. 

 Existing Friends groups

• Alexander Recreation Ground
• Betts Park
• Biggin Hill Recreation Ground
• Bromley Field Studies Centre
• Bromley Town Parks and Gardens
• Cator Park
• Chislehurst and St Paul's Cray Commons
• Coney Hall Recreation Ground
• Cray Valley Parks
• Croydon Road Recreation Ground
• Crystal Palace Park
• Darrick Wood (Countryside)
• Harvington
• Hayes Common (Countryside)
• Hayes Parks
• High Broom Woods
• Hollydale
• Jubilee Country Park (Countryside)
• Kelsey Park
• Keston Common (Countryside)
• Mottingham Woods
• Penge Recreation Ground
• Poverest and Covet Wood
• Priory Gardens
• Richmal Crompton Fields
• Royston Field
• St George's Churchyard
• St Paul's Cray Hill Country Park
• Scadbury Country Park
• Tugmutton Common (incorporating Farnborough Recreation Ground) 
• Warren Road
• Well Wood
• Whitehall Recreation Ground
• Willett Recreation Ground

How to set up a new Friends group

If you live close to a park that you care about and that has no existing Friends group they why not set one up yourself? The London Borough of Bromley has Partnership Officers who will help so you will get lots of support and advice.

Other volunteering opportunities

The Countryside Service is responsible for managing a range of publicly-owned local nature reserves, country parks and commons.

Countryside Officers oversee management of these sites supervising and working in partnership with relevant 'Friends' groups and other non-constituted groups, including the High Elms Volunteer Ranger Service, the Countryside Volunteer Ranger Group and Rights of Way Custodians. 

For further information or to join the:

Details of countryside volunteering opportunities

Contacts

Parks Partnership Officers
Parks Friends Groups
Telephone: 020 8461 7521 or 020 8313 4493
e-mail: landscape.helpdesk@bromley.gov.uk

Countryside Service
Other volunteering opportunities & Countryside Friends groups
Telephone: 01689 862815
Fax: 01689 861347
e-mail: countrysideandparks@bromley.gov.uk