Our Parks

Founded in 2014 by fitness coach Born Barikor to harness the legacy of the London Olympics, with the purpose of ensuring that easy, barrier free access to quality exercise is available to everyone, uniting our communities.

It is our aim to ensure that easy access to exercise is available to you and your local community and Our Parks utilises a bespoke technology to enable residents to book and register on classes and communicate with other park users to provide a fitter and socially active community.

OUR PARKS AIMS:

• We aim to improve the health and wellbeing of our local communities.
• We aim to maximise the usage and benefits of amazing parks and open spaces that are present across all our communities.
• We aim to maximise the interaction of our communities across our website and mobile phone applications platforms.

From the moment you sign up for free, you join over 200,000 Parkers who have joined Our Parks to Turn Up Tone Up! Parkers are invited to Our Parks events including our annual Parks Off that see teams of Parkers take part in a huge, family sports day. We also hold meet ups and share as many opportunities as we can from our partners.

In 2014 Born Barikor founded Our Parks Ltd to deliver free, group exercise in parks and outdoor spaces. Our Parks is a unique initiative bringing free, group exercise classes, led by fully qualified instructors, to parks near you in partnership with local authorities. It is Born and his team's aim to ensure that easy access to exercise is available for all in the local community. By partnering with Local Authorities, Our Parks’ aspiration is to create a fitter community through the utilisation of facilities at local parks through a council funded initiative. Our Parks allows Boroughs to provide coached, exercise classes, free of charge for the community within a green surrounding and in 2021, now has over 200,000 Parkers (users).