The Wild Cities Coalition
London has all the elements for nature recovery and climate adaptation. What it lacks is the coordination to bring them together.
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Wild Cities is the neutral backbone that connects the partners, resources and expertise needed to deliver nature as essential infrastructure — starting with a 14-mile nature corridor across Haringey, Hackney, Tower Hamlets and Newham.
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A working blueprint for nature recovery at scale.
Wild Cities provides the connective infrastructure through three core functions:
Convene partners &
aggregate demand
Turn shared priorities into an investible pipeline
Acting as a neutral convenor bringing organisations together around shared priorities and identifying where collective action can add value.
Developing viable opportunities on the ground and connecting them to the funding, expertise and support they need.
Measure, report & share learnings
Building the evidence of what works, strengthening accountability and informing future investment.
Join the Coalition
No single sector holds all the assets, relationships or capabilities needed to deliver nature recovery at the scale and pace required to build resilience in cities.
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The Coalition brings together four domains — government & place, business & finance, community & culture, and science & expertise — aligning the capabilities needed to move from individual projects to coordinated delivery.
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Starting on 6 October, Wild Cities will run a 90-day sprint to work with these domains to shape practical solutions for accelerating nature recovery across Haringey, Hackney, Tower Hamlets and Newham.
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If you hold a piece of this system and want to help shape more liveable cities, register your interest today.
Land, permissions, planning levers, maintenance regimes, local convening power, funding
Government & Place
Capital; land and assets; expertise and networks where relevant
Business & Finance
Community & Culture
Local knowledge, relationships, participation, stewardship, cultural reach and public engagement
Ecological evidence, mapping, data, monitoring, technical expertise and methods
Science & Expertise
Who can join the corridor
Government & Place
​Parks, verges and street trees · roads and transport corridors · schools and civic spaces · housing estates · canals, waterways and wetlands
Business & Built Environment
Development sites · commercial and industrial land · buildings and rooftops · car parks · other underused or overlooked spaces
Community & Culture
Community gardens and greenspaces · allotments and orchards · resident-managed spaces · churchyards and cemeteries · cultural institutions · private gardens, balconies and window boxes · sports grounds