East London Waterworks Park is a charity that has raised £2m towards buying land from the Department for Education to transform the 14-acre Thames Water Depot on Lea Bridge Road on the border of Waltham Forest and Hackney, into a new biodiverse park with natural swimming ponds, forest schools and community spaces.  We will benefit the environment, wildlife and people including our identified priority audience groups:

Young people; Disabled people; People with global majority heritage; People from lower socio-economic groups; LGBTQIA+ people; Older people.  

We will benefit a wide range of people by creating a thriving community hub, designed by and for local people, with free access to natural swimming ponds comparable in terms of scale to Hampstead Ponds and London Fields Lido, a biodiverse park teeming with wildlife, and learning and community spaces which lead the way toward a sustainable future.