For over 30 years, Clissold Park User Group (CPUG) has worked with park users, Hackney Council and park management to raise issues, represent local views and support and improve Clissold Park.

Here you can get involved with CPUG, find practical information about visiting and using the park, keep up with our news, events and activities, and discover our work to research, share and celebrate Clissold Park’s history and heritage.

Support CPUG

Help support CPUG by buying our merchandise. Sales are an important source of income and help fund our work and activities.

Get involved

Attend a meeting, join a litter pick, volunteer in the park or find other ways to help with CPUG’s work across the park.

Contact CPUG

Raise an issue or idea, suggest something for discussion, or get in touch about CPUG and our work.

Our work

See what CPUG has been working on, from volunteering and biodiversity to issues raised and discussed on behalf of park users.

Keep up with news from Clissold Park and CPUG, find out what’s happening in the park and read the latest CPUG newsletter.

Visiting the park

Opening times, directions, public transport, a park map, accessibility information and other useful information.

Facilities & activities

Playground, splash pad, wheelspark, sports, animals, the market garden and activities for children.

Food & drink

Clissold House, Fink’s café and the Pump House kiosk, including opening times and venue information.

A short history

Discover how Clissold Park developed from a private estate into the public park we know today.

Our heritage work

Find out how CPUG researches, shares and celebrates Clissold Park’s history through heritage projects and initiatives.

Saving the park

Discover the campaign that saved Clissold Park from development and led to its opening in 1889.