Friends of Bute Park
Important Notice
The Bute Park Friends Group is currently being reshaped and rejuvenated by a small committee.
Recruitment is underway for new members of the group.
If you would like to become involved with the Bute Park Friends Group please email
paul.barrett@newfriendsofbutepark.co.uk or ian.body@newfriendsofbutepark.co.uk
The Friends of Bute Park are passionate about improving the park and keeping it special.
The Friends work closely with the Bute Park team to:
- carry out conservation,
- organise litter picks,
- label trees, and
- remove invasive plants such as Himalayan Balsam.
To promote the natural and historic features of the park, the friends also organise:
- walks,
- nature rambles,
- bird watches, and
- wildlife surveys.
To represent park users, the friends group:
- provide feedback on new ideas and initiatives,
- offer advice and a park-user-perspective to the Council, and
- meet regularly to discuss and support the park maintenance and management plan.
If you want to know more about the group please contact butepark@cardiff.gov.uk
The Friends also have a noticeboard and letter box in the Secret Garden Café.
The Friends of Bute Park Constitution
The purpose of the friend’s group as stated in their constitution is to:
- Celebrate the environment, wildlife and history of Bute Park.
- Protect, conserve and enhance Bute Park as a place of freedom, recreation and safe enjoyment for the long-term benefit of all sections of the community.
- Promote Bute Park to the local and wider community.
- Increase, protect and publicise the biodiversity of Bute Park.
- Work in partnership to these ends with Cardiff County Council, statutory bodies and voluntary groups
- Inform and seek the views of local people and representative groups so that the park may best serve the local community.
- Ensure the actions of the Friends work with reference to Cardiff County Council’s Maintenance and Management plan for the Park.
