Jess kyle Lewisham Rivers, Thames21, Volunteer

River Pool Conservation Days

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Clearing the secondary channel in Ladywell Fields

Join Thames 21 for some fun clean up in the River Pool

Linear Park (Catford)
River Pool Conservation Days (Every Wednesday)

• Volunteer and discover the River Pool through Linear Park, Catford.
• Help shed more light on the river and improve its bio-diversity for plants and animals
• Maintain and improve the footpath along the river
• Build flow deflectors and berms in the river channel to increase flow diversity
• Other tasks include scrub removal, tree pruning and litter clearance
• All welcome, all equipment provided, just wear old clothes and bring lots of enthusiasm.

Every Wednesday, 10-3pm, stay as long as you like.
Tea provided all day

Meet 9.30 at Winsford Road Bridge on the Waterlink Way.

For more information on upcoming events please contact Vic Richardson
07973 442219

This Project is Sponsored by Lewisham Council

judithsimmons Lewisham Rivers

Volunteers work on clearing the backwater at Ladywell Fields

Volunteers have been clearing reeds from the backwater by the cafe at Ladywell Fields. We remove the reeds to maintain areas of open water for breeding. Species such as newts need these open water areas for mating. Of course, many of the reeds will be left to provide wildlife nesting areas and refuge for birds. This work needs to be done over the winter to minimise disturbance to wildlife and have the pond in top condition ready for next spring.

Jess kyle Lewisham Rivers, River Ravensbourne, Rivers, Volunteer

New RBSM Programme now available

Clearing the secondary channel in Ladywell Fields
Clearing the secondary channel in Ladywell Fields

The January – March 2017 RBSM programme is now available.  If you are new to the River Bankside Sessions, please check out our How to get Involved,  FAQ and River Volunteering pages where hopefully you will find all the information that you need.  If after reading this you have any other questions, please feel free to contact us.  You can also read a little about the team that you’ll be working with.

Jess kyle Lewisham Rivers

Citizen Scientists needed for Ravensbourne Catchment

2016 Citizen Science

We’re writing to invite you to sign up for training for an exciting new volunteering  opportunity – the Ravensbourne River Monitoring Initiative (RMI).

 Are you a Citizen Scientist in the making, fascinated by the wriggly creatures that anchor the ecology of a healthy river?  Would you like to learn and apply simple sampling techniques to monitor these invertebrates?  Are you prepared to commit to doing this regularly, to provide a continuous picture?

 Our local rivers – sometimes invisible or channelled into concrete, elsewhere happily restored – form the Ravensbourne Catchment.  The Ravensbourne, Quaggy and Pool rivers capture nature’s water and move it to the sea via the Thames at Deptford.

 RMI is a proven method of checking on our rivers, already used elsewhere in London and the UK.  We are organising an RMI training day in southeast London on Saturday 21st May 2016.  It will be run by Joe Pecorelli of the Zoological Society of London.  Volunteers need to be fit enough to stand in or near a river regularly and be prepared to work in a small team.

We’ve both had this training and are keen to start up an RMI scheme on the Ravensbourne Catchment.  RMI can flag up pollution, reveal ecological variety, and raise public awareness around rivers.  And it’s welly good fun!

We are happy to answer any questions and to speak informally to local groups.  Please see the attached flyer for details of the training day.