Fishponds Fields have been open to the public seven days a week all year round during daylight hours since 2021. Just seven minutes’ walk from the High Street, they are a flourishing green asset for everyone in Tooting – a resource promoting physical and mental health and community well-being, as well as contributing to sustainability and biodiversity.
A range of activities run by groups, clubs and schools take place on a regular basis. Low cost fitness classes take place most week day mornings – please refer to our Twitter or
Instagram accounts @ffishponds for an updated timetable or the physical notice outside the fields. Many sports clubs use the fields weekly, mostly football and cricket, but also touch rugby, hurling and lacrosse. The fields are the home practice ground for the Furzedown Lions – a local Football Club offering high quality football to players aged between 3 – 18 years old through daily practice sessions. https://www.furzedownlionsfc.co.uk/
Local people increasingly use Fishponds Fields for informal activity and recreation – whether it be a daily walk, meeting friends, having a picnic, or simply sitting and enjoying the sounds of birdsong. All this is a massive change from the recent past. Before 2021, the fields lay underused and mostly locked for decades.
Forever Fishponds, the community group that reaches out to local residents and works to develop the fields as a community space, led a campaign from early 2020 for consistent regular access to the fields. Success came in June 2021 when the Council agreed to open the fields every day and appointed Enable LC to manage them first on an interim basis, and then, in a further decision in 2023, for the long term. Since then Forever Fishponds has worked with Enable on its programme of activities to meet the needs of all users. Forever Fishponds is now recognised by the Council as the official ‘Friends’ group for Fishponds Fields on the lines of the Friends groups that serve our commons
The 2024 summer opening hours are:
Monday – Friday 9am until 9pm
Saturdays & Sundays 9am until 9pm
Fishponds Fields have always felt like the missing green heart of Tooting. Though there have been many steps forward, much remains to be done to get the fields better known and realise their potential as a green community space for everyone in Tooting and leader of good practice for biodiversity.
Working with local Tooting residents we have asked ‘What if Fishponds were a thriving green habitat for all in the heart of Tooting, for current and future generations?’ Forever Fishponds has produced a Vision Document to outline a future for the fields that serves this goals. It draws on the views you have expressed in successive consultations over the past few years. These are the foundations on which the vision rests.
We would love to hear from you, either to share your thoughts on the vision document or if you feel you could contribute to efforts to make the vision a reality. The Forever Fishponds team is a friendly, open group and welcomes new people taking part. Contact us at foreverfishponds@gmail.com to get to know us and find out more.
Read our Community Offer and Our Submission to Prize to Transform the Future hosted by London National Park City and South East AONB’s (Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty).
All are welcome to explore how sport, physical activity for all, biodiversity, mental health, outdoor learning and community connection can work together on Fishponds Fields. One day we may be able to wander or cycle the Tooting Green Way through Fishponds to Streatham Cemetery to Springfield Park and on up to Wandsworth Common. Why not?
Contact us at foreverfishponds@gmail.com to be kept updated on meetings and events.
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Forever Fishponds – imagining and sharing how Fishponds Fields can be a flourishing green community space in the heart of Tooting