We treat Britain's parks as preventative health infrastructure.
Neighbourhood Health Parks is a small community interest company doing one stubborn thing: putting registered clinicians into local parks, every week, for free, so that movement, connection and clinical guidance happen before a GP appointment is needed.
Our mission
Shift health out of the waiting room.
The NHS spends roughly nine out of every ten pounds treating illness that has already arrived. We believe the cheapest, kindest medicine for most adults — gentle movement, daylight, a sense of belonging — is already growing in the park five minutes from their front door.
NHP exists to make that medicine programmable, safe, and bookable. We don't replace the NHS; we sit one step upstream of it. A walk leader in a hi-vis vest, a physiotherapist on a bench, a friend you didn't know you had: that's the prescription.
What we believe
Four principles, no exceptions.
Prevention first
We move people before they become patients. Every session is built around the evidence base for falls prevention, cardiometabolic risk and loneliness.
Park, not clinic
Outdoors is the treatment room. Daylight, soil, trees and neighbours are the active ingredients — not equipment we have to maintain.
Everyone, free
No referral, no postcode lottery, no paywall. If you can reach the park, the park is yours.
Clinically safe
Sessions are designed and supervised by registered physiotherapists, exercise physiologists and mental health practitioners.
Our story
A short, honest timeline.
- 23
2023
An idea in Leicester
Ayo Ajibola began running free Saturday balance walks in Abbey Park after seeing the same falls patients return week after week.
- 24
2024
C.I.C. incorporated
Neighbourhood Health Parks C.I.C. is registered in England & Wales. First ICB partnership conversation begins.
- 25
2025
Four cities, growing team
Active programmes in Leicester, Oxford, London and Manchester. First outcomes report published.
- 26
2026
A park in every neighbourhood
We're building toward 50 partnered parks by 2028 — the catchment area of the average GP surgery.
The people
Founder-led. Clinician-supported.
NHP is founded and run by Ayo Ajibola, supported by a growing network of certified clinicians and volunteer walk leaders across the UK.
Ayo Ajibola
Founder · Neighbourhood Health Parks C.I.C.
Governance
- Legal form: Community Interest Company (C.I.C.), England & Wales.
- NHS alignment: Independent of the NHS; designed to complement primary care.
- Asset lock: Surplus is reinvested into free park sessions and under-served areas.
- Safeguarding: All clinicians are DBS-checked and indemnified.
Where we operate
We currently run live sessions in Leicester, Oxford, London and Manchester, and accept park requests from anywhere in the UK. Use the park finder to see what's near you.
Find a park near youWant NHP in your neighbourhood?
Residents, councils and ICBs can request sessions in any UK park.