Richmond Park

The largest of The Royal Parks, Richmond Park is a vast green space which has changed very little over the centuries.

Even today, the landscape of hills, woodland gardens and grasslands gives a taste of medieval England and a haven for visitors to relax and connect with nature.

Richmond Park is home to 650 roaming deer and as you wander through the ancient trees, you may spot antlers through the bracken. The Isabella Plantation, the ornamental woodland garden is also a feature during any time of the year. For whatever reason you visit Richmond Park, you’ll take away memories to last a lifetime. 

As the charity for The Royal Parks, we work with them to enhance, protect and preserve this fantastic Park for future generations.

With your fantastic support, we’re able to reach out to make Richmond Park part of more people’s lives by raising funds for a wide variety of projects from wildlife conservation and landscape restoration, to community sport, education and art.

Every day, people, trees and wildlife benefit from our work. Play your part and Support the Royal Parks today.

Flourishing Night Life

Richmond Park covers almost 1,000 hectares (2,500 acres) of Greater London and supports over 100,000 trees making it an incredibly important site for bats. Potentially, it can support 11 of the UK’s 17 bat species, each of which are adapted to different niches within the woodland, grassland, parkland and wetland habitats of the Park. To find out which bats had made the Park their home, we funded trapping surveys in with a top bat expert

The aim of the survey was to build a solid database of records that could be used as a baseline for the future. Over ten nights, with the help of many willing volunteers, nearly 150 bats of eight species were caught in harp traps and mist nets before being safely re-released into the Park.

It’s vital that the Park is protected to ensure that the bats can continue to use Richmond Park as an island sanctuary within a sea of built-up London.

Taking up the Reins

With funds raised through our wildlife adoptions, we have supported the Shire horse team in Richmond Park  so they can deliver a programme at community events such as local fairs, schools, open days.

Pembroke Lodge Visitor Centre

Our grant towards fitting out the new centre and producing a guided walk leaflet has enabled park visitors to access more information about Richmond Park and encourage people to explore the park on foot and learn about its biodiversity.

Holly Lodge Centre

The Foundation has supported the Holly Lodge Centre in Richmond Park, funding an environmental artist to work with children and adults with special needs during the centre’s summer holiday club. We have also made a contribution towards a large new greenhouse so that volunteers, children and disabled groups can grow and tend plants for the community garden in a sheltered environment.