Myatt's Fields Park Project
Myatt’s Fields Park is run by a charity called Myatt’s Fields Park Project (MFPP), in partnership with Lambeth Council
Our vision: in a vibrant and diverse neighborhood, Myatt's is a park where community and nature grow together.
Our mission: to protect and develop the park as a haven of wellbeing for our urban neighborhood.
Our values:
Welcoming: the park is a place for our diverse community and a force for cohesion and unity. We work to remove barriers both seen and unseen to accessing the park and to governance. The park is a platform for celebrating local cultural wealth.
Empowering: we are led by the community at all levels of our organisation. We listen to, and are accountable to, local people. We empower local people through programs that build skills and confidence
Growing roots: we value and celebrate the heritage of the park and of local communities. We steward the park sustainably for future generations, grow the park as a refuge for wildlife and promote biodiversity and local sustainable food. We collaborate with partners and build networks to bring about change for our community
MFPP aims
MFPP aims to:
Grow our place: Myatt’s is a well maintained, biodiverse space with facilities that meet local people’s needs in the 21st century
Grow People: Myatt’s brings our diverse community together and improves wellbeing. It increases people’s skills, prosperity and employability
Grow our Business: Myatt’s has resilient income to deliver the vision
Grow our Organisation: Myatt’s has open, sustainable, inclusive governance
Grow our Neighbourhood: Myatt’s promotes access to healthy, nutritious food and green space through food growing
While Lambeth looks after basic maintenance (including water play, repairs and maintenance, opening and closing and cleaning) we:
* employ people that work in the park and provide a point of contact for the public
* run volunteering in the park, keeping it clean and managing horticulture
* raise income for the park
* provide skills training, facilities and resources so individuals and organisations can run a diverse range of activities in the park
* offer routes to work through training and enterprise support
* run community events and activities with a focus on food and music.
MFPP was started by a group of park users in 2000, becoming a charity in 2005. In the past we worked alongside the council, managing additional activities, including the cafe, greenhouse and events. In the wake of budget cuts, Lambeth were looking at innovative ways of running green spaces and in September 2015 they began to hand over to MFPP.
Since then we’ve collaborated with the council to develop Myatt’s Fields as a 'Pioneer Park', receiving support to become financially sustainable by hiring out spaces for weddings and private events, working with businesses and partnering with community groups.
We’re proud of everything we’ve achieved. In 2010 we raised £3 million to renovate the park, providing a new playground, children’s centre and toilets. We've worked with local groups and individuals through our greenhouse and community programmes exploring world food history.
We bring together members of the community as trustees and employees to look after the park now and into the future.
Our vision: in a vibrant and diverse neighborhood, Myatt's is a park where community and nature grow together.
Our mission: to protect and develop the park as a haven of wellbeing for our urban neighborhood.
Our values:
Welcoming: the park is a place for our diverse community and a force for cohesion and unity. We work to remove barriers both seen and unseen to accessing the park and to governance. The park is a platform for celebrating local cultural wealth.
Empowering: we are led by the community at all levels of our organisation. We listen to, and are accountable to, local people. We empower local people through programs that build skills and confidence
Growing roots: we value and celebrate the heritage of the park and of local communities. We steward the park sustainably for future generations, grow the park as a refuge for wildlife and promote biodiversity and local sustainable food. We collaborate with partners and build networks to bring about change for our community
MFPP aims
MFPP aims to:
Grow our place: Myatt’s is a well maintained, biodiverse space with facilities that meet local people’s needs in the 21st century
Grow People: Myatt’s brings our diverse community together and improves wellbeing. It increases people’s skills, prosperity and employability
Grow our Business: Myatt’s has resilient income to deliver the vision
Grow our Organisation: Myatt’s has open, sustainable, inclusive governance
Grow our Neighbourhood: Myatt’s promotes access to healthy, nutritious food and green space through food growing
While Lambeth looks after basic maintenance (including water play, repairs and maintenance, opening and closing and cleaning) we:
* employ people that work in the park and provide a point of contact for the public
* run volunteering in the park, keeping it clean and managing horticulture
* raise income for the park
* provide skills training, facilities and resources so individuals and organisations can run a diverse range of activities in the park
* offer routes to work through training and enterprise support
* run community events and activities with a focus on food and music.
MFPP was started by a group of park users in 2000, becoming a charity in 2005. In the past we worked alongside the council, managing additional activities, including the cafe, greenhouse and events. In the wake of budget cuts, Lambeth were looking at innovative ways of running green spaces and in September 2015 they began to hand over to MFPP.
Since then we’ve collaborated with the council to develop Myatt’s Fields as a 'Pioneer Park', receiving support to become financially sustainable by hiring out spaces for weddings and private events, working with businesses and partnering with community groups.
We’re proud of everything we’ve achieved. In 2010 we raised £3 million to renovate the park, providing a new playground, children’s centre and toilets. We've worked with local groups and individuals through our greenhouse and community programmes exploring world food history.
We bring together members of the community as trustees and employees to look after the park now and into the future.
Our strategy: 2019 - 2025
OUR STRATEGY
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, community 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 in 2023.
The paperwork
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