Volunteer Walking Tour Leaders

The Royal Parks (TRP) is a charity created in March 2017. We manage over 5,000 acres of diverse parkland, rare habitats and historic buildings and monuments in eight Royal Parks across London. These are: Hyde Park, Kensington Gardens, The Green Park, St. James’s Park, The Regent’s Park and Primrose Hill, Greenwich Park, Richmond Park and Bushy Park. We also manage other important public spaces including Brompton Cemetery and Victoria Tower Gardens. Our eight Royal Parks and other public spaces are among the most visited attractions in the UK with over 77 million visitors every year.

The Royal Parks’ Learning Team works to create meaningful lifelong learning and engagement opportunities so visitors of all ages and backgrounds can discover, understand and ultimately value and support The Royal Parks. We achieve this through inspiring curiosity, providing inclusive, enjoyable and unique high-quality experiences across nature, heritage and wellbeing for people of all ages, backgrounds and abilities.

First launched in 2022 the volunteer walking tour leaders allow us to expand the walking tour offer to help meet public demand. We’re currently recruiting for our next cohort of volunteer walking tour leaders.

We are looking for friendly and knowledgeable volunteers to deliver guided walks and talks on nature, heritage and wellbeing in the central Royal Parks (Hyde Park, Kensington Gardens, St James’s Park and The Green Park).  As a walking tour volunteer, you will support our charitable goals by giving our visitors a warm welcome, helping them to understand important context around our work to conserve and enhance the parks, and through some tours by helping us to generate income. Volunteers will be provided with information outlining the themes we want to cover but we encourage volunteers to supplement this with their own research, and also welcome applications from volunteers with existing relevant expertise.

To find out more, take a look at the Role Description below. 

Applications closed on Friday 23 February 2024.