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Friends of Wandsworth Park

Health

We want to install a drinking fountain to help reduce plastic waste in a park where extensive sport is played year round.

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About this cause

Friends of Wandsworth Park (FoWP) is a community organisation campaigning to conserve and maintain standards in our local park and to organise enrichment and educational activities. We meet several times each year to discuss issues of concern and relay the views of our members in hope of influencing policy and decision making by Wandsworth Council and their outsourced contractors. Recent successes include our campaign against a private proposal to lease the River Terrace in the northwest corner of the park and subsequently obtaining the designation of Asset of Community Value for the entire park. We are active on a number of issues, notably wildlife conservation, tree and garden maintenance, and policing and enforcement of park bye-laws.

How this cause brings people in the community together

With 1.5 million visitors a year, it promotes health, sport, outdoor activity and environmental benefits by reducing waste and plastic litter that is affecting our ecology and wildlife. The local sports leagues have identified their own concerns about the amount of plastic waste weekly and agree that we must take action. There is extensive community support for us to install a drinking fountain.