In 2024, 2,227 parks and green areas throughout the UK have achieved the international standard for parks and green spaces. Sites all over the UK have raised the coveted Green Flag Award
When the first Green Flags were given out in 1997, the UK’s green space industry was in appalling condition. Many once-proud and lovely historic city center parks had become abandoned, dangerous, no-go zones due to decades of underfunding, and many other green spaces were either barely maintained or neglected.
The Green Flag Award® program establishes the gold standard for the management of recreational outdoor spaces in the UK and around the world by recognizing and rewarding well-managed parks and green spaces.
The UK Government Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government, Keep Britain Tidy oversees the Green Flag Award.
Objectives and goals
- to guarantee that, regardless of where they reside, everyone has access to high-quality green parks and other open areas.
- to guarantee that these areas are suitably administered and satisfy the requirements of the populations they are meant to serve.
- to create guidelines for effective management.
- to encourage and disseminate best practices within the green space industry.