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Norbury Brook River Revive Saturday, Thornton Heath, Sep 26

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🍂Our volunteer events at Oxleas Woods, in Greenwich, are back for the new season. 🗓️There will be three sessions next week: on 29th & 30th Sep, and on 1st Oct. Get active, meet new people and help us boost local biodiversity! book.plinth.org.uk/e/9TPs7t51Mk...

Autumn Big River Watch 2026 ends tomorrow night! You don’t need to be beside a river to take part. Explore trail camera footage from Beale Park and spot wildlife, plants, water changes and pollution. Thanks to support from Mend the Gap. 📱More info here: youtu.be/DWM5DRiAKOc?...

Autumn Big River Watch 2026 🌊 | Ends 24 September 2026 – Last Chance to Get Involved!

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🌊💙 You don't need to live near a river to help protect one. Watch trail camera footage from 🌿 Withymead Nature Reserve on the River Thames, record what you spot 🐦💧🚯, and upload your observations via the #BigRiverWatch app. Big thanks to Mend The Gap. 📹https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ex5QOXDYMiw

🌿💧 Ready to make a difference? Get stuck in, make new friends and help protect your local river this week! 💚 Everyone’s welcome. Find an event & sign up: thames21.org.uk/events/

#ThamesRdWetland managed by @thames21.bsky.social volunteers, has had 6 additional species of Odonata in the last 12 months, in part due to increased observer effort. Now at 20. We need occasional extra help managing vegetation - next session for this Fri 16th Oct book.plinth.org.uk/e/0WCJmk9xkz...

Thames Road Wetland: Help Manage An Important Wetland

<p><span style="color: rgb(36, 36, 36);">Despite its urban surroundings, </span><strong>Thames Road Wetland</strong><span style="color: rgb(36, 36, 36);"> which sits within the Green Belt, is part of ...

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🌊🔬 A huge thank you to all our volunteers who took part in our first 'microplasticblitz' sampling day across the River Brent catchment! We collected water samples from hotspots along the River Brent and its tributaries to understand where microplastics are ending up.⬇️🧵

🌊🧤 Join our Big Wet Wipe Count! Help survey sewage-based wet wipes on the Thames foreshore by Hammersmith Bridge on Sunday 11 October, 10am–2pm. Come help track pollution and protect our river! 💧🌿https://www.thames21.org.uk/event/big-wet-wipe-count-autumn-2026/

Fantastic to see our collaborative launch of a five-year action plan to improve the River Thames and its tributaries from Maidenhead to Teddington featured in the @maidenheadads.bsky.social. .🧵⬇️ 📷 - Maidenhead Advertiser

🌊 From the River Thames foreshore, meet Ken. Ken could have been playing computer games or watching the latest film on Netflix, but instead, he chose to spend his time helping protect his local environment. We talked sewage-based waste, and misconnections. Watch full video below.🌿

Environmental charity Thames21 and its partners have launched the Maidenhead to Teddington Catchment Action Plan 2026–2031 – a collaborative plan setting out an ambitious vision to restore the Thames and its tributaries between Maidenhead and Teddington. 🧵⬇️

🌊Want to learn how to spot the signs of a healthy river?Join our free Understanding Urban Rivers training course to explore river systems, ecology and the pressures facing urban rivers. 📅 Fri 18 Sept 2026 📍 Blue Garage, Lewisham 🕙 10am–4pm 🌿 More details here: www.thames21.org.uk/event/unders...

🍂 Our autumn e-newsletter is out now! Discover how you can join us safely on the riverbank, and find out more about the projects we’ve been working on across the Thames. ➡️ Read it here: shorturl.at/8cRwQ 📩 Sign up for future e-newsletters: thames21.org.uk/e-newsletter/

Pollution needs to be stopped at source. We want clean and healthy rivers. But we can’t tackle what we don’t measure. Microplastic data isn’t routinely collected, making it harder to show the scale of the problem and push for change. 🧵⬇️

Thames21’s EMPOWER Rivers Programme is supporting volunteer-led action for rivers and helping London’s rivers thrive.⬇️

Over the weekend, Thames21 brought together trustees, staff and volunteers at Riverside Studios in Hammersmith for our annual Volunteer Celebration – an afternoon of stories, chat, films and awards. 🧵⬇️

🌊 Join Thames21 on the Thames foreshore for a hands-on river citizen science litter survey! 📅 Fri 11 Sept | ⏰ 9.30–11am 🧤 Gather vital data and help build the evidence needed to lobby for action on plastic pollution. Register here: book.plinth.org.uk/e/pxzoD1DIPt...

River Litter Detectives - In Front of Hurlingham Club

<p>Come along and join Thames21 as a river citizen scientist on the River Thames. We will be collecting the litter we find and categorising it into sewage derived litter, plastic items, and other litt...

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Excellent to be at the River Summit and Festival at Henley yesterday. What a fantastic event! A full day of thought-provoking panels, practical workshops, inspiring talks and lively debate, all exploring the future of our rivers. 🧵⬇️

Water companies dumped sewage into England's waters for more than 43,000 hours during July and August, new data from campaigners Surfers Against Sewage (SAS) shows. news.sky.com/story/sewage...

Sewage dumped into English waters for more than 43,000 hours over summer

Across the August Bank Holiday weekend alone, sewage was discharged into bathing waters for the equivalent of 34 days.

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🗓️🦇Join us on the 9th September at Chandos Park for a guided bat walk. 🔎We’ll meet at 7:30pm for a walk around the park and along the Edgware Brook looking for the bats coming out to feed at dusk. 🔗https://book.plinth.org.uk/e/gAGTt5AU47UQQEhxDIB0 #thames21 #batwalk #chandospark

A black-headed gull perched on a riverside wall. #birdsoftheworld

🍂 Meteorological autumn is here! It’s the perfect time to get hands-on, help protect your local river, meet new people and make a real difference to your local environment. ➡️https://thames21.org.uk/events/🍀🧵⬇️

Brilliant Eel Fest event with @riverkennet.bsky.social in Marlborough today celebrating the European eel, with so many children discovering eels and other creatures of the River Kennet @zslofficial.bsky.social @thames21.bsky.social

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Nice weather for eels today at Eel Fest. Old and new faces discovered the amazing European eel and its importance in our rivers. Eel Fest is part of our Thames Catchment Community Eels Project Development Phase. @thamesriverstrust.bsky.social #ThamesEels #HeritageFund

Great news! The illegal waste site in Kidlington, Oxfordshire, has now been cleared. Alongside our volunteers and other environmental charities, we played a role in raising awareness of the issue through media coverage. 🧵⬇️

As World Water Week 2026 comes to an end tomorrow, we want to highlight the importance of understanding the rich history of our rivers to better protect their future.

Great to see our work featured on @itvnews.bsky.social online today. 📺 Thank you to ITV for covering our joint report with the @riverroding.bsky.social, which estimates that around 600 million litres of sewage-contaminated water enter the River Roding and its tributaries every year. 🧵⬇️ 📸 - ITV

This World Water Week, we want to draw attention to our rivers. We all want clean, healthy rivers and thriving surrounding landscapes, yet our rivers are under increasing pressure.🧵⬇️

Around 600 million litres of sewage-contaminated water are estimated to enter the River Roding and its tributaries every year via unpermitted and previously unmonitored outfalls, according to a new report by Thames21 and the @riverroding.bsky.social Trust.🧵⬇️

💧Learn more and gather data on plastic pollution in the Thames with us! 🗓️Join us on the 19th August at the historic Queenhithe site in the City of London for a hands-on citizen science session. 🔗https://book.plinth.org.uk/e/daoQGu8IVRurMy15LI8k #thames21 #citizenscience

📣We still have a few spaces left in our next Urban Riverfly training session! 🗓️Join us on the 18th August in Ealing to learn how to identify key pollution-sensitive invertebrates that are a river’s natural health indicators. 🦐 🔗https://book.plinth.org.uk/e/gPGZKYDM6CJ4z8dGnTCE #thames21