Riley Park Trust

Overall Info

Riley Park Trust is a green haven of tranquillity away from the hubble and bubble of the town centre.

The park is located at the back of Sainsbury's main supermarket in West Street and Riley Road, Oxford Road and Cambridge Road form its boundary roads.

Riley Park Trust is a registered charity and is run by a team of voluntary Trustees and receives no funding from the public purse.

The facility is used extensively by a very wide age spectrum of people, from formative children (we have a children's play area), up to retirement home people, along with sporting groups including youth football. This extensive usage of the park fulfils the objectives of the Trust Deed, set up in 1914 by the benefactor Mr Edward Riley, which states that the ground is left in Trust so that children can play safely off the streets.

Marlow has several jewels in its crown most of them rightfully protected and funded through the public purse. However, Riley Part Trust is not in this category and has to survive through support of its stakeholders, the Marlow Community and local businesses, and through fundraising, legacies and donations.

The Riley family’s generosity has served the community and youth well over the last 100 years – and a very interesting eight unit Heritage Trail installed to mark the Trust's Centenary in 2014

Let’s hope that with the community’s continued support the Trust will survive for the next 100 years and beyond.