How It Started
Myatt’s Fields Park is a listed Victorian park run by a charity called Myatt’s Field Park Project (MFPP). Since 2000, the MFPP have dedicated their time and expertise to keep the park and community safe and vibrant. Between the years of 2005 to 2009 the area suffered high deprivation and now offers high quality amenities to people from very varied communities and income levels. It became a ‘Pioneer Park’ in 2015 achieving a significant degree of financial autonomy through hiring spaces, partnering with community groups and raising money from individual donors.
Our Vision
Gather and represent the diverse and vibrant community in Myatt's Fields, where community and nature grow together.
Our Mission
To protect and develop Myatt's Fields Park as a haven for wellbeing for our urban neighbourhood. We intend to be the go-to space in Lambeth for hosting local community events, reflecting our neighbourhood's rich diversity and vibrancy. We are committed to fostering inclusion by welcoming and engaging all people, ensuring that our park is a space for everyone to connect, celebrate, and grow.
Our Values
Bridging the gap between community and nature.
Providing local & urban communities with agricultural knowledge.
Helping the community grow sustainably.
Providing local & urban communities with agricultural knowledge.
Helping the community grow sustainably.
The Plan: 2019 - 2025
Our challenge
To find the money to protect the park in the short and long term.
Income generation
We continue to generate income by hiring out the bandstand, the football pitch, our tennis courts, the cafe, the compound, the Mulberry Centre and roundhouse. We want to generate new income for the park using spaces such as the cottage, the depot and the park’s largely unused compound. Other income generation will include legacy giving, paid for events, education offers (eg gardening courses) and corporate sponsorship. We also cater for events and make and sell produce from the greenhouse to raise funds for the park.
Volunteering and training
We want to use the greenhouse and park to provide volunteering and training programmes that engage all ages to make the park a better place for all users. Training and volunteering will help improve people’s mental and physical health and help support local people into work. The training programmes will have the added benefit of maintaining the park to a high standard. We will seek funding to pay for these programmes.
People are our greatest asset
We will design one hundred ways that people can help to protect the park – whether it’s taking litter home, making donations, running your own project, becoming a trustee or joining a task force to keep the park clean. We will strengthen community ownership of the park by ensuring a wide range of people can contribute their skills, knowledge and experience provide leadership for the park.
Depot development
Bringing it all together will be our new depot building with a large central eating/meeting space, training room, kitchen, foyer and views over the greenhouse. We’ll use this to generate income from hires as well as providing an incubator for enterprise. We hope the building will be complete by the end of 2025.
To find the money to protect the park in the short and long term.
Income generation
We continue to generate income by hiring out the bandstand, the football pitch, our tennis courts, the cafe, the compound, the Mulberry Centre and roundhouse. We want to generate new income for the park using spaces such as the cottage, the depot and the park’s largely unused compound. Other income generation will include legacy giving, paid for events, education offers (eg gardening courses) and corporate sponsorship. We also cater for events and make and sell produce from the greenhouse to raise funds for the park.
Volunteering and training
We want to use the greenhouse and park to provide volunteering and training programmes that engage all ages to make the park a better place for all users. Training and volunteering will help improve people’s mental and physical health and help support local people into work. The training programmes will have the added benefit of maintaining the park to a high standard. We will seek funding to pay for these programmes.
People are our greatest asset
We will design one hundred ways that people can help to protect the park – whether it’s taking litter home, making donations, running your own project, becoming a trustee or joining a task force to keep the park clean. We will strengthen community ownership of the park by ensuring a wide range of people can contribute their skills, knowledge and experience provide leadership for the park.
Depot development
Bringing it all together will be our new depot building with a large central eating/meeting space, training room, kitchen, foyer and views over the greenhouse. We’ll use this to generate income from hires as well as providing an incubator for enterprise. We hope the building will be complete by the end of 2025.
Policies and Documents
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