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.
Ready to rally your crew and make a visible difference in your local park? This guide walks you through everything you need to host a successful community clean-up in Toronto
Creative ways to connect people to nature, community, and care for ravines in Toronto.
Parc Jarry in Montreal, Toronto’s waterfront, CRAB Park in Vancouver… People are coming together to protect the places they love.
Learn more about green social prescribing, an evolving practice that encourages individuals to reestablish connections with nature and one another to enhance their mental, physical, and social wellbeing.
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.
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We help our partners to engage communities, create quality programming, measure public space use, and apply innovative governance models and partnerships — all necessary ingredients to create dynamic parks in the 21st-century city.
As Canada’s national city parks organization, Park People’s services and approach are rooted in our leading research into park planning, policy, and engagement and our extensive network of park enthusiasts across the country.
Our broad definition of parks — from more traditional parks to hydro corridors and downtown parking lots — and our experience with cross-sectoral partnerships, help us think differently about what’s possible for parks and public spaces.
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Park professionals need new ways to plan, design, manage, program, govern and fund city parks. We can help!
We’re Canada’s experts in public life studies. Informed by your needs, we’ll design the public life study, recruit and train volunteers, and make sense of and amplify the insights.
There’s no one-size-fits-all solution when it comes to park governance. We’ll surface and sort through partner strengths and recommend governance models that build solid foundations for productive park relationships.