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Northampton's Active Quarter

Local people and organisations working together to make our great outdoor spaces easier and more enjoyable to use.

Being outdoors is great! Northampton has lots of great outdoor spaces, and the Active Quarter partnership (focussing on the south side of town) aims to make them even better. This website brings together partnership updates, activities to take part in, and places visit. Use it to learn more, or just feel more confident getting outdoors.

What is the Active Quarter

Ways to get involved

Places

Use our map to discover brilliant outdoor spaces to visit. There’s something for everyone to enjoy.

Discover places

Activities

Our partners offer a range of events and activities. From sport and wellbeing, to creativity and more!

Explore activities

Community

If you (or your organisation) care about helping more people enjoy being outdoors, get involved!

Get involved

Research

Learn about our latest research and see how we’re working to develop the Active Quarter.

Read more

Latest updates

Places

Abington Meadows

Forest School

Cripps Recreation Centre

Waterside Campus

The Washlands

Barnes Meadow

Activities

Padel Social House

Phipps Running Club

Walking Tennis

Let’s Ride from British Cycling

Caffeine & Kilometres free female social run club

Delapré Abbey ParkPlay

Community

Help establish a juniors cycling club

ParkPlay volunteering

Semilong Community Garden

Wildlife Trust work parties

University of Northampton parkrun volunteering

Northampton Bike Park volunteering

Research

Delapré Abbey shares social prescribing journey

April 29, 2026

Northampton’s most-visited greenspaces of 2025

February 26, 2026

Active Quarter partnership showcased in Parliament

November 28, 2025

Providing traffic insights for the Brampton Valley Way

July 25, 2025

Evaluation report published for new pathways

July 22, 2025

Traffic monitoring supports success of The Griffin Trail

July 7, 2025

Other updates

New YouTube channel celebrates cycling across Northampton

March 19, 2026

Looking back at Autumn 2025

December 16, 2025

100+ new benches mapped!

December 12, 2025

Take the West Northamptonshire Parks survey

December 12, 2025

Share your views about Northampton Racecourse and Pavilion

October 29, 2025

East Midlands in Bloom Awards Success

October 17, 2025

A deeper connection: how learning about nature amplifies its wellbeing benefits

July 29, 2025

Looking back at Spring 2025

June 5, 2025

Share your story in our gallery

October 10, 2024

Share your views in our parks survey

October 9, 2024

Share your views about parks at our events

October 9, 2024

West Northamptonshire Parks Development Strategy

July 16, 2024