Community Partnerships

Community Partnerships

The Community Development programme across the parks in Kingston is well established and will be improved under Glendale. Our dedicated Community Development Manager, Andy Hallett is available to support your amazing projects in parks, open spaces and neighbourhoods throughout the borough.  

Andy is supported by the Glendale management team who will engage with groups and individuals to identify and develop suitable project activities for volunteers at a group and individual level. 

Andy is the first point of contact for any groups and individuals who wish to express an interest in community and volunteer activities.  

Andy will support new and emerging groups to develop their organisational structures and constitutions where required. If your local park is currently unsupported by a community group, and you would like to get involved, then Andy would love to hear from you. Please fill out the  Form to express your interest.

Following on from the Friends of Forum, We would like all of our groups to help us track the amount of wonderful volunteers that help out at the events around the  Borough. Please take a brief moment to fill out this Form  and please feel free to add pictures of your amazing work.

If any groups require additional support for upcoming events or volunteer days then please contact Andy on andy.hallett@glendale-services.co.uk  and we will try our best to accommodate your needs. We do request that you give us as much notice as possible to avoid disappointment. 

Andy can be contacted here

Glendale/RBK Community Newsletter 

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Newsletter - October 2024

Newsletter - September 2024

Current Active User Groups

Group Name

Barnfield Gardens Pocket Park

HAM

Focus/Tasks

Maintain of roadside shrub beds

Maintenance of nature reserves

Strategic development of the park

Community volunteering - litter picking with a focus on recycling

Strategic development of the park

Community volunteering - litter picking with a focus on recycling

Strategic development of the park

Community volunteering - litter picking with a focus on recycling

CROSS - Cromwell Residential and Open Space Society

NEW MALDEN

Maintenance of roadside planters Development of open spaces

Strategic development of the park Volunteer days and practical tasks throughout the park

Horticultural maintenance and improvements to the beds within the park

Friends of Churchfields Recreation Ground

CHESSINGTON

Volunteer sessions in parks with a focus on scrub clearance and litter picking

Volunteer sessions within the park, maintenance of beds and community orchard

Volunteer sessions in parks with a focus on horticultural works, clearance of scrub, wildflower meadow

Volunteer sessions in park

Volunteer sessions in the park with a focus on horticultural works

Volunteer sessions in park

Volunteer sessions in park with a focus on tree planting and the maintenance of shrub beds

Volunteer sessions in the park

Hailsham Close Resident

SURBITON

Maintenance of Wayside Gardens

Volunteer sessions in the garden

Kingsnympton Estate Pocket Park

NORBITON

Maintenance of Pocket Parks

Langley Avenue Resident

SURBITON

Maintenance of Wayside Gardens

Maintenance of planting and planters at the Mew Malden Station entrance 

Friends of Beeline Way

NEW MALDEN to RAYNES PARK

Maintenance of urban walkway, cycle path and woodlands

Royal Park Gate

KINGSTON

Volunteer sessions in the park with a focus on horticultural works

Work in Chessington area with a focus on the maintenance of green link/planters along Tolworth Broadway

Work across the Borough with a focus on ecology and biodiversity

TULF - Tudor Library Friends

KINGSTON

Maintain the beds outside the library

Maintenance of roadside planters 

A community orchard and group allotment since 1992