• Road run-off pollution tool extends to the Upper Thames

    A pioneering online map tool showing which roads are most likely to cause river pollution based on collaborative research with environmental charity Thames21, Middlesex University…

  • Plastic Free Mersey – a cross-sector approach to tackling plastic pollution

    Tackling Plastic Pollution: The Plastic Free Mersey Project The River Mersey can be a place of beauty, but like many urban rivers it suffers from…

  • The River Roding needs you!

    Join Thames21 and the Roding, Beam, and Ingrebourne Catchment Partnership in helping to develop ‘The Roding Rises’- a multi-year National Lottery Heritage funded project, which…

  • Welcome to Thames21

    We reconnect people to nature by helping them enjoy, protect and enhance their local rivers.

    Whether it’s the Thames or one of its many tributaries, we offer inspiring ways for communities to get down to their local riverbank.

    Rivers, canals and stretches of open water are the perfect antidote to urban living – which is one of the reasons thousands of volunteers help us rewild and protect them every year.

    Our aim is to rebuild the relationship between communities and their rivers; restoring river health and boosting wellbeing and community cohesion in the process.

    Feeling inspired?  Find out more