Hydro Flask's 2022 Parks For All Grantees Announced

Hydro Flask elebrates five years of giving through its Parks For All programme, amounting to a total contribution of over $2.5 million (£1,842,228) to 151 non-profits. This year, the brand is pleased to announce its 2022 Parks For All grantees comprised oforganisations focused on building, maintaining, restoring, and providing more equitable access to public parks and green spaces globally.

“We are thrilled to celebrate five years of giving through Parks For All,” said Indigo Teiwes, Director, Corporate Responsibility, Housewares at Helen of Troy. “We believe that the outdoors and green spaces lead to healthier, happier and more fulfilled lives. Everyone deserves the mental and physical benefits that the outdoors can provide and we’re proud to partner with organisations whose work makes this a reality for so many.”

Parks for All is the giving platform for Hydro Flask. Through Parks For All, Hydro Flask supports non-profit organisations focused on building, maintaining, restoring, and providing more equitable access to parks. For us, parks represent a place we can all go to recreate, relax, or be inspired. From urban park excursions with our family to national park adventures in the backcountry, parks of all sizes and types help make us healthier, happier, and more fulfilled. Parks For All is our way of sharing the love we have for green spaces, and ensuring these special places get the attention and protection they deserve. As of January 2022, Parks for All has supported 151 non-profits, given more than $2.5 million and donated more than 68,000 bottles. For more information about Parks For All, please visit https://www.hydroflask.com/uk-en/parks-for-all.

Over the five years since Parks for All launched, Hydro Flask has focused its giving in three key categories: building new parks, park access and education, and park maintenance and restoration. Since 2017, Parks For All funding has helped more than 60,000 people spend 382,000 hours outside, including more than 35,000 kids. Additionally, more than 600 workshops and trainings have been held and almost 30,000 kgs of trash have been removed through the programmes of Parks For All grantees. Finally, Hydro Flask is proud to announce as part of its commitment to improving equity in the outdoors that over 13 of this year’s grantees are led by People of Colour and other historically marginalised communities, including womxn, LGBTQIA2S+ and Disabled people.

To learn more about current and past grantees, visit Parks For Allor watch Hydro Flask’s Let’s Go! video series on YouTube, which documents the inspiring people and groups who are helping to preserve, and make more accessible, the natural spaces that bring joy to us all.

This year, Hydro Flask will donate over $400,000 (£294,770) in cash and product donations to grantees globally to support projects such as building and maintaining parks, community education and more.

Through the 2022 grants, Parks For All is donating $205,000 (£152,103) to five U.S. national grantees, $99,500 (£73,393) to regionally focused U.S. non-profits and $15,000 (£11,064.97) to Canadian non-profit, Park People.

In Europe, four deserving organisations will receive grants: 

• Gate To The Arctic (Norway) Gate to the Arctic makes science reachablefor younger generations. Our inaugural Parks For All grant in Norway will provide $25,000 (£18,433) to help support an arctic adventure for twenty teens from around the world to become Ambassadors of the Arctic Ocean. Participants will travel by boat to Bear Island to clean beaches, study plastic pollution and learn about ecosystem balance in a marginal ice zone.  
• We Swim Wild (UK). We Swim Wild connectspeople to cold water swimming and environmental stewardship projects. A $12,000 (£8,849) Parks For All grant will provide swimming lessons and water workshops at the first annual LGBTQ2IA+ Wellness Festival, designed by queer women for queer women. Taking place in PembrokeshireNational Park in Wales, the festival will promote a greater connection to nature and physical and mental wellbeing.  
• Peak District National Park Foundation (UK). Peak District National Park Foundation is connecting with U.K. children from underserved cities surrounding the park to develop a life-long love of the countryside. A $12,000 (£8,849) Parks For All grant will provide transportation for eight schools to visit the park, along with outdoor experience kits packed with bug boxes, mini microscopes and waterproof suits and footwear. 
• Clean River Projecte.V.* (Germany). Clean River Project e.V. tacklesplastic pollution of rivers and oceans while reconnecting people with nature. During its second year as a Parks For All grantee, an $18,000 (£13,275) grant will support bi-weekly clean ups of the Landwehr Canal, which runs through the heart of Berlin. Clean ups will take place on foot and in kayaks, and trash is then turned into treasured artistic designer lamps.

*Denotes repeat grantee beneficiaries 

"The Peak District National Park Foundation is delighted to be chosen to join the Parks for All family. Hydro Flask’s generous grant will help us to connect children to nature across the National Park and beyond. We all know the importance of getting outside for young people from improving mental and physical health to confidence building and encouraging teamwork. We can’t wait to get started to help children discover the joy of the outdoors,”said Sarah Slowther, Foundation Manager.

“We are excited to join the Parks For All family,” said Hans Martin Halvorsen, Sailing Founder of the Gate to the Arctic. “The Parks For All Grant enables us to bring youngsters on an expedition to Bear Island situated in the middle of the Barent sea. We believe in the words of Jacques Cousteau - "People protect what they love" so we hope we can give them the same love and understanding of the Arctic as we have.”

To learn more about Hydro Flask Parks For All grantees and a full summary of the exciting projects, please visit https://www.hydroflask.com/uk-en/parks-for-all.