Thames21 has once again joined forces with the Environment Agency and Rotary to call on volunteering, community and environmental groups to come forward and sign up to the Plasticblitz 2024 and take part in a mass cleanup of waste from water bodies between Sat 22nd June to Sun 7th July 2024. This year we are aiming for the Plasticblitz to be bigger and better than ever, and we would love your support!
Join Thames 21 for a river wade along the Ravensbourne River in Beckenham Place Park. Learn about your river while making a positive difference with other locals.
With thanks to the Quekett Microscopical Club. We thought your post was so great we wanted to share it with our readers. You can find our more about Quekett on their website. They write...(Report and most photographs by Alan Wood) London Rivers Week is an annual event run by the environmental charity Thames21. As a contribution to London Rivers Week, CPRE London coordinated an event involving the Friends of Chinbrook Meadows, the Quaggy Waterways Action Group, the Chinbrook Action Residents Team, Glendale and the Quekett Microscopical Club – providing a free and family-friendly Nature Discovery Day.
A WaterBlitz is a water sampling event that helps provide a snapshot of pollution issues across a river's catchment area. This event is for local people and citizen scientists to take water samples of points of interest to them across the Ravensbourne Catchment (which includes the Ravensbourne, Pool, Chaffinch Brook, The Beck, Quaggy, Kyd Brook) to identify ongoing pollution issues impacting the catchment's water quality. This event will also be an important opportunity to sample areas in the catchment that generally have relatively good water quality to understand how poorer quality stretches of our rivers could perform throughout the catchment in the absence of pollution challenges.
London Rivers Week is a week-long annual campaign inspiring the public to celebrate London’s rivers and the projects taking place to rewild and renaturalise them and connecting them with their local communities.
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Thames 21 writes.... London Rivers Week Do you cherish rivers and enjoy exploring them? Do you love the wildlife that roams our countryside? Do you want to learn about what’s being done to protect London’s life-giving rivers and how you can help? Then join us for the third annual London Rivers Week, running from Saturday … Continue reading London Rivers Week – Saturday June 23 to Sunday July 1
The first 3 Rivers Clean Up planning session will be taking place later this week. We hope that by the end o it we will have confirmed the dates for this year’s festival. We hope that will be able to overlap with London Rivers Week. This will be the 10th year that we have been … Continue reading 3 Rivers Clean Up 2108
Volunteers are needed urgently to help with a clearance of sediment from the secondary channel in the North Field this coming Wednesday (28th). Meet at 10am by the 10,000 Hands cafe in the North Field. We will be working from 10am-3pm with a group of volunteers from Thames 21 to try to make the river … Continue reading A call to arms – part deux
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