This year again, local leaders gathered their neighbours, built connections, and restored nature in projects big and small. The movement continues to expand, and we're pleased to share just some of these impacts in our 2025 Impact Report.
This guide walks you through how to start and grow a park group in Toronto, from planning your first meeting to organizing activities, reaching new people, and navigating City permits, funding, and support.
Explore low-cost, high-impact supports that park-based organizations can provide to equity-deserving communities to help make nature spaces and programs more accessible and enjoyable.
Parc Jarry in Montreal, Toronto’s waterfront, CRAB Park in Vancouver… People are coming together to protect the places they love.
What could Toronto’s parks look like in the years ahead? Our 2026 Parks Platform brings together ideas from Torontonians and four priorities for a more resilient, joyful and connected city.
Host free, community-led park activities in Toronto with the No-Fee Community Activations Booking. This hour-long virtual session will walk you through the booking: what's eligible, and how to apply step by step.
Hosted by Park People and World Urban Parks, this global gathering will bring together 450+ park leaders from Canada and around the world to share and explore practical and creative park and public space ideas, and seed new relationships, collaborations, and ways of working.
By donating to Park People, you’ll support vibrant parks for everyone.
We acknowledge the enduring presence and resilience of First Nations, Inuit and Metis people on these lands, and recognize their role as caregivers, stewards and storytellers across Turtle Island.
We believe that parks should play a vital role in providing shared spaces for all people and are an important space for reconciliation and decolonization.
We understand the infrastructure that lets us communicate digitally is physically located across Turtle Island, including on unceded territories.
Park People commits to the stewardship of these lands as Indigenous peoples have done since time immemorial, and to further recognize the history of colonization and commit to truth and reconciliation as a part of how we bring people together on common ground.
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