A charter for
playing fields
in London

Become a Playing Fields Champion and join our campaign to urge the Greater London Authority, local authorities and sporting bodies to adopt a long-term plan to protect London’s playing fields.

More than just open space, London’s playing fields are places where people’s lives are improved through sport and physical activity. And for the gifted few, like England footballer Harry Kane who started out at Peter May Sports Centre in Walthamstow, they are where careers begin.

But accessing these life-changing opportunities is difficult. There’s too few playing fields and not everyone can access them. To change this, we need a long-term plan to protect and use them fully.’

Our Charter for Playing Fields in London calls on the Greater London Authority, local authorities and sporting bodies to adopt 12-point call to action that will provide long-term protection for these precious spaces. It advocates for a more strategic approach to protecting playing fields from local and central government.

READ THE CHARTER and add your name to our list of Playing Fields Champions to recognise the contribution playing fields make to improving lives.

Email us with your name and organisation and we will add you to our list. Thank you!

Why you should support our Charter

• By signing up to our Charter for Playing Fields in London, you’ll be supporting for our work to:
• Call on people involved in the provision, protection and promotion of London’s playing fields to safeguard them so future generations can enjoy the physical and mental health benefits of getting active and playing sport.
• Persuade the Greater London Authority to update the 2006 report Offside: The loss of London’s Playing Fields, and provide a pan-London playing fields audit so we can better protect them.
• Call for a single, London-based website for playing fields information to help better protect and promote them
• Ask all 33 London boroughs to adopt our Charter for Playing Fields in London and develop a long-term strategic plan that recognises the value playing fields bring to local communities.
• Highlight the need for our Fields at Risk Register, which lists sites in imminent danger of commercial or residential development.
• Advocate the need for London boroughs to have up-to-date playing fields strategies so they can strategically protect them.

What you can do

Read our Charter for Playing Fields in London to discover the 12 essential actions we want public bodies to take to protect playing fields.

Sign up below to support the Charter. By adding your name to our list of Playing Fields Champions, you’ll recognise the contribution playing fields make to improving lives.

CONTACT US if you want to explore how you can support our work providing a place to play sport forever.