Love Parks Week runs during the usual extended week of 27 July to 4 August.

Quality green spaces are essential to healthy, happy communities. And Love Parks Week celebrates and showcases just this as well as campaigning for continual reinvestment in green space.

And of course summer is the perfect time to visit your local green spaces and remember what it’s like to breathe outside of a city-fuelled environment and recall the heady days of childhood! Even better is that such visits can reduce illnesses — apparently a walk in the park every day reduces the likelihood of heart attacks, cancer and Alzheimer’s disease.

The Love Parks Week website lists over 400 events taking place across the UK — everything from sports days and picnics to brass bands and Shakespeare — so there should be something happening near you.