The Adelaide Park Lands Association will be going through a leadership renewal process in 2025.

Two long-standing members of our managing Committee are about to step down. If you Love Your Park Lands and want to help us secure their future, then 2025 is the time to step up.

Would you like to be a Tour Guide, to lead Guided Walks through your Adelaide Park Lands?

We are looking to recruit a handful of volunteer Tour Guides to help people "Explore" various parts of your Open Green Public Adelaide Park Lands.

One of the most-loved trees in your Adelaide Park Lands has died, after less than a third of what is regarded as a normal 400-year lifespan for the species.

The State Ombudsman has ruled that there is no valid reason for secrecy about a licence fee, paid by a charity to lease a garden in your Adelaide Park Lands.

How would it feel to win $20,000, for first prize in the 2025 Adelaide Park Lands Art Prize?

We asked previous winner, John Foubister, what his win in 2023 meant for him.

What are your Adelaide Park Lands for? Community, social sport on Open, Green, Public fields? Or commercial, professional sport on fenced, walled, privatised arenas?

We invited the elite sporting bodies located on your Adelaide Park Lands to put their case in this 5-minute documentary by Patrick Prior.

A meeting on 9 December at the Box Factory Community Centre has led to the formation of a new team of “Park Guardians” who from 2025 will watch and report on many of the Open, Green, Public spaces of your Adelaide Park Lands.

An advisory board, tasked with making recommendations about your Adelaide Park Lands, has come up with a wish list for projects that it would like to see funded in 2025.

Memo to City Councillors: Propping up a bar, or taking private function bookings, are NOT sports.

The Adelaide Park Lands Art Prize is not only for established, professional artists. It’s also for “emerging artists”. Is that you?

The City of Adelaide is offering licences of up to five years duration over sports fields and other facilities in your Parks 15, 16, and 17. One private school, a long-term Park Lands licensee, might be required to share its playing fields with other groups.

After our final Guided Walk for the year on Sunday 15 December, our Guides will take a break over the festive season, and resume on 19 January 2025 for what will be our biggest-ever yearly program of events.