Parks: austerity has seen ‘disastrous reductions in staffing and maintenance’.

On 21 June, the first day of summer, a ‘Charter for Parks’ was launched and the UK’s political leaders asked to champion parks and local public green spaces across the UK to halt – and reverse – their decline.

The ‘Charter for Parks’ is backed by a coalition of 12 national organisations: Greenspace Scotland, Keep Britain Tidy, Fields in Trust, Friends of the Earth, Llais y Goedwig (the voice of community woodlands in Wales), The National Federation of Parks and Green Spaces, The Parks Alliance, The Parks Agency, The Gardens Trust, Unison and 38 Degrees.