Black History Month – a historical trip along the River Thames
Black History Month is an occasion to recognise and celebrate the invaluable contributions of black people to British society. This year’s theme for Black History…
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Thames21’s response to London Assembly Committee’s ‘Swimmable Rivers’ report
Thames21 welcomes this report, which has 12 recommendations for creating clean and healthy rivers in London. These proposals strongly reflect our long-standing calls for action on…
Thames21 Volunteer Celebration Awards
We had a fantastic evening at our Thames21 Volunteer Celebration awards last week at Poplar Union in East London. We presented the third Celia Hensman…
Five million wet wipes dug out in clean-up of London’s ‘wet wipe island’
Port of London Authority, in collaboration with Thames Water and environmental charity Thames21, has completed a three-week project and removed about 5 million wet wipes…
Thames21’s social media giveaway
🎉 Thames21’s giveaway 🎉 🍂Big coat season is heading our way and our friends at Finisterre have offered Thames21’s followers and volunteers the opportunity to…
First mass wet wipe removal from a UK river launched to clean London’s ‘Wet Wipe Island’
Work has started on the mass excavation of London’s Wet Wipe Island in a first-of-its-kind river clean-up project to further improve the quality of the…
An exploration of London’s most iconic lost rivers
Rivers are the lifeblood of London. The capital has more than 600 kilometres of rivers and streams flowing into London’s greatest river, the River Thames….
Plasticblitz highlights the scale of plastic pollution in UK rivers during UN Global Plastics Treaty negotiations
Volunteers have spent 133 hours clearing litter and collecting data from rivers in England and Scotland during Plasticblitz 2025, which is an initiative led by…
Thames River Watch: celebrating collaborative efforts to protect our rivers
4,000! That’s the round-up figure of the number of volunteers that we have engaged in our Thames River Watch programme in recent years. These volunteers…
Thames21 calls on government to stop pharmacies selling plastic-based wet wipes online
Plastic containing wet wipes should not be sold online at pharmacies to help protect the River Thames, rivers across the UK, and the world’s oceans,…