Friends of Newlands Park

Friends of Newlands Park (FoNP) is a community volunteer group, formed in January 2020 by local residents. Friends of Parks groups play a vital role in enhancing local parks and open spaces, and in helping local people have a greater say in how their green spaces are maintained and developed.

Glasgow’s local parks are essential places that provide a welcoming green environment for people of all ages, backgrounds and abilities. They are spaces for relaxation, recreation and play, supporting health and wellbeing and community cohesion. They also provide a welcome green oasis in our cities for wildlife and biodiversity, bringing people closer to nature. 

Glasgow City Council (GCC) has overall responsibility for the maintenance of the park, including for grass and hedge cutting and tree surgery; maintaining infrastructure such as paths and play facilities; and emptying litter bins. Many other routine gardening activities such as weeding, planting, maintaining shrubberies, etc., are conducted by Friends of Newlands Park volunteers under a formal agreement with GCC. 

Friends of Newlands Park acknowledge that it is not realistic to maintain the park as it was in years gone by. The resources simply are not available to sustain the status quo, and the needs and interests of the local community are constantly evolving.

We, as a community group, are therefore working to develop a clear, inclusive vision and strategy to sustain and enhance Newlands Park, considering the needs of ALL park-goers, now and into the future.

Please help us by completing this short survey to share your views. It should only take you 5 minutes*.

If you would like further information and some background on how we plan to develop our strategy, please take a look at this short document.

*We appreciate that you may have completed our earlier surveys which were specifically focused on play facilities and on potential demand for a pétanque piste. Your responses have provided information that has been critical for both of these projects and we hope that you will see some positive progress soon. This survey is designed to provide us with important new information about how people currently use the park and how they would like it to be in the future.