Green Flag Award 2025-26

Published: 18 July 2025

The Green Flag Award is the benchmark international quality classification for parks and green spaces, providing the high standards against which sites are measured, and which land managers, local authorities and volunteers pledge to achieve when applying for the award. Keith Jackson from The Friends of Stables Lane Group and Parish Councillor David Taylor were pleased to accept the award at the ceremony held on 15 July at Bradford Live.

2,250 parks and green spaces across the UK have reached the high standards required to receive a coveted Green Flag Award in 2025 – more than ever recorded before.

The scheme was launched 29 years ago, with the first awards given a year later, to recognise and reward the best green spaces in the country.

Congratulating this year’s winners, Keep Britain Tidy’s Chief Executive, Allison Ogden-Newton OBE, said:

“We are thrilled to see that an incredible 2,250 sites have met the standards required for a Green Flag Award, reflecting the tireless work of the people tasked with caring for and improving these crucial national assets.

“Our quality parks and green spaces make the UK a heathier place in which to live and work, and a stronger place in which to invest.

"Through the Green Flag Award and our campaigning as a charity, we will continue to advocate for good quality green infrastructure that maximises benefits for people and nature, whether that’s through exercise and wellbeing, or playing a part in helping us mitigate and adapt to some of the effects of our changing climate.

“The Green Flag Award sets the standard for caring for these sites amid growing recognition that our green spaces can be part of the climate solution.

“We know that the plants and trees in parks help to mitigate the harmful carbon emissions that are driving climate change. They act as cooling havens as we face hotter, drier summers and play an important part in climate change adaptation and mitigation, including helping to reduce incidences of flooding.”

The Green Flag Award scheme is managed by Keep Britain Tidy under licence from the Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government, setting the benchmark standard for the management of recreational outdoor spaces across the United Kingdom and around the world.

A full list of Green Flag Award-winning parks and green spaces is available here.