Welcome to Vauxhall Park – a small park with a big heart!

If you have a complaint about Vauxhall Park, please contact the Lambeth Parks Department (parks@lambeth.gov.uk). If there is an emergency in the park, please call 999. If you want to report something to the police and it’s not urgent please call 101

25 years ago…

The Friends of Vauxhall Park was started when a notice went up saying Are you happy with the state of this Park? Twenty Five years later we’re still working to honour the spirit of that meeting. We hope you will join us for the next chapter of our story. Click here to view a power point of our first 25 years.

The 2024 Trustees at the 25th Anniversary Celebrations

To round off our 25th Anniversary year we are delighted to announce two Awards:

In the Park of the Year Category, Vauxhall Park has been awarded a London in Bloom Gold Award

2024/25 Green Flag AND a Green Flag Heritage Site Award for Vauxhall Park

We would like to thank our wonderful volunteer gardeners
who’ve helped us to retain these awards by coming to work in the park in rain and shine throughout the year. Want to join them? Please email us (friends@vauxhallpark.org.uk) to be added to the WhatsApp group where dates are posted. No experience is needed and we provide all tools and equipment. Please bring your own gloves in you can. We meet regularly for an hour or two of work followed by a coffee at Parco

We would also like to thank Lambeth Parks Officers, Lambeth Landscapes staff and the support of our Councillors

A New Greener Green Building in Vauxhall Park

The Fentiman Road gate will remain shut during the building works whilst machinery and materials are moved in and out of the park The gate will reopen once the six modular parts of the new building are brought to the site. If you have any comments about this closure, please contact the Parks Department (parks@lambeth.gov.uk).

November Update: The demolition works and site investigations are now complete. We expect the modular building to be moved on to site during November and the fit out to be complete before the end of the year.

The Friends of Vauxhall Park worked closely with Lambeth Council to bring forward plans for a new, more sustainable building to replace the ‘green’ building near to the fountain. The old building was beyond economic repair and was too large for current usage. It is being replaced with a smaller modular, wooden clad building which will sit on the existing building’s foundation. There will be two fully accessible toilets (one specifically for playground users and the other for general park users), better facilities for Lambeth Landscapes operatives, secure storage for the Friends gardening group’s tools and a small kiosk.

We are proposing that the new building will be known as The Pavilion to remember the tea pavilion that originally stood near to this site.

In addition, we plan to redesign the play space at the back of the building to create a more inclusive play offer with neurodiverse children particularly in mind. If you could help us with designing this space or fundraising we would appreciate your help.

Table Tennis bats & balls are available free to use at Parco Cafe but please consider buying something when collecting/returning them. We thank Ardian and Mimoza at Parco for looking after them for us.

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Lambeth have published several important documents recently:

If you have any comments about any of these documents, please email them to: friends@vauxhallpark.org.uk

About Vauxhall Park

This Award winning park has been at the heart of our community for over 130 years. From its very beginnings its ambition has been to be a place of relaxation and enjoyment for people living, working or just visiting Vauxhall. We are very proud of our history (please see History page for further details) and delighted that one of our founders, Millicent Fawcett the great Suffragist, will be the first woman to be honoured with a statue in Parliament Square. We would love to get to know you – please do join us, it costs from only £5 (see the Join Us page), even if you don’t want to be an active member of the Friends we would like to have you as a member to hear views so that we can represent a broad a cross section of the community as possible. Please explore our website and let us know if you have any comments.

Vauxhall Park was opened on 7th July 1890 by Albert, Prince of Wales (read more about our history here). It is located in the London Borough of Lambeth on the South Lambeth Road (A203) at its junction with Fentiman Road (B301) and comprises about eight and a half acres of land. In 2020 we celebrated 130 years of Vauxhall Park with the completion of its first major upgrade!

The Park facilities include a playground catering for aged 12 and under, a multi use games area predominantly for basketball/netball, Parco Cafe, two tennis courts, two ping pong tables (free to use bats and balls held at Parco Cafe), the Fawcett Sensory Garden (including our brick labyrinth) , lavender field originally sponsored by Vauxhall Motors to mark their Centenary, the model village, an orchard, lavender mosaic (in the fountain basin), two fenced dog areas, a human sundial (in the lavender garden) and the Oval Montessori Nursery School.

Vauxhall Park has been awarded the prestigious Green Flag Award for nine years in a row. The Green Flag Award Scheme recognises and rewards the best green spaces in the country, meaning that Vauxhall Park is one of the best of 1,452 green spaces in the country!

About The Friends of Vauxhall Park

The Friends of Vauxhall Park is a registered charity (1166894). Find out more about what we do here. Our constitution is available here.

How to find the park

Be careful not to confuse us with Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens (formerly Spring Gardens).