• Interview with ‘ADrift on The Thames’ producer Karina Townsend

    Earlier this year, we commissioned kayaker, adventurer and creative technologist Karina Townsend to create an underwater Thames soundscape called ‘ADrift’. Karina launched her kayak to…

  • Charity calls for urgent action on swimming spots after Oxfordshire river bathing sites get mixed wa …

    Environmental charity Thames21 is calling for clearer targets and more urgent action to clean up popular swimming sites after the Environment Agency announced that only…

  • Volunteer Spotlight on Chris Rose

    “Managing Thames Road Wetland is a year-round operation, with some seasonal changes, rather than being a discreet, compartmentalised ‘project’, so the ‘favourite experience’ is really…

  • 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.

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