The Friends of Brompton Cemetery is a charity, working in partnership and close co-operation with the Royal Parks. We are an independent organisation with our own strategy, structure and governance.

Annual membership of The Friends of Brompton Cemetery costs just £15 for both home and overseas members, with the overseas members receiving their copy of the magazine as a pdf document via email.

Members receive three A5 magazines per year, with news about the cemetery and its management, Friends’ events and activities, biographical sketches of notable personalities, nature notes, reviews, anecdotes, poetry – anything and everything of interest to Friends of Brompton Cemetery. Donations are also very welcome to help us with our work! We are a Registered Charity, Number 1181027.

Donations are also very welcome to help us with our work! We are a Registered Charity, Number 1181027.

As an independent organisation entirely reliant on the work of volunteers we are always keen to recruit people with the time and energy to contribute actively to The Friends’ activities. There are many ways in which volunteers can contribute. For further information, please contact the Friends by email on: volunteering@brompton-cemetery.org.uk

We need volunteer support for the following roles:
• Manage Information Centre in North Lodge to greet and assist visitors to Brompton Cemetery. Currently, the Centre is open from 11:30 am till 2 pm Monday through Saturday and 12:00 till 2:30 pm on Sundays. With more volunteers we could expand the hours of operation.
• Steward events in the Chapel (art exhibition, music performances, lectures, book launches etc.)
• Strengthen our social media work
• Strengthen our communications and administration
• Contribute to our work with the local community, helping groups to find interests in the Cemetery which they did not know were there, and to take advantage for their own purposes of our facilities and spaces
• Serve refreshments in the Chapel
    
If you are interested, or know others who might be, please contact our Volunteer Coordinator, Ann Mulcare, at 
volunteering@brompton-cemetery.org.uk or by post to Friends of Brompton Cemetery, North Lodge East Wing, Old Brompton Road, London SW5 9JE. Even if you are able to offer as little as a half day or one day a month you will be welcome.

If gardening is of interest, sessions led by John Plant take place on many Wednesday afternoons all year from 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm. Contact John by emailing volunteering@brompton-cemetery.org.uk and saying you are interested in gardening. This involves weeding and clearing graves and scrub, and planting bulbs in the spring and autumn.

If you are interested in becoming a guide, please join one of our regular Sunday tours, and identify yourself to the Friends’ guide for more information.

The Friends of Brompton Cemetery participate in a Joint Working Group with the Royal Parks (who manage the cemetery) and representatives of the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea to develop plans for the care and improvement of the cemetery, and to assist with their implementation. The Friends occasionally help to maintain the cemetery and its monuments by leading corporate volunteer days; please contact us directly if your group would like to give a day’s work to clearing undergrowth.

The Friends offer a range of guidebooks, maps, postcards and other literature for sale from the North Lodge, after tours, at lectures and on Open Day. The Friends’ noticeboards, near the Old Brompton Road and Fulham Road entrances, display current information about tours, events and other items of interest to Friends and other visitors to the cemetery.

The Friends of Brompton Cemetery participate in a Joint Working Group with the Royal Parks (who manage the cemetery) and representatives of the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea to develop plans for the care and improvement of the cemetery, and to assist with their implementation. The Friends occasionally help to maintain the cemetery and its monuments by leading corporate volunteer days. Please contact us directly if your group would like to give a day’s work to clearing undergrowth.

The Friends offer a range of guidebooks, maps, postcards and other literature for sale from the Information Centre at the North Lodge, after tours, at lectures and on Open Day. The Friends’ noticeboards, near the Old Brompton Road and Fulham Road entrances, display current information about tours, events and other items of interest to Friends and other visitors to the cemetery.

The Friends of Brompton Cemetery are members of the National Federation of Cemetery Friends and the Association of Significant Cemeteries in Europe.