Guest post: Volunteer opportunities with Haringey Water Squad in 2023
The Haringey Water Squad is a group of local people who act to improve the quality of local watercourses and work together to understand them…
Media Releases
Thames21’s response to Thames Water’s sewage investment plans
“We welcome today’s (27/02/23) announcement made by Thames Water that it will be investing £1.6 billion in the next two years on upgrading its sewage…
World Wetlands Day – The value of constructed urban wetlands to river health and fighting the climate crisis
This World Wetlands Day, Thames21 wants to cast a spotlight on constructed urban wetlands. These seasonally or permanently flooded areas are specifically designed to utilise…
Canvey Island flood anniversary: Interview with photographer Jack Delmonte
A free exhibition and film screening, ‘Below the Wrack Line’, will open on Saturday 28th January at Canvey Island’s War Memorial Hall from 18.30pm to…
Thames21’s response to Thames Water’s interactive storm discharge map
Thames Water recently published an interactive map that shows real-time raw sewage discharges. Thames21 Head of Improving Rivers John Bryden said: “We welcome the…
Below the Wrack Line: Marking 70 years since the Canvey Island floods
A free exhibition and film screening, ‘Below the Wrack Line’, will open on Saturday 28th January at Canvey Island’s War Memorial Hall from 18.30 to…
The Celia Hensman River Leader of the Year Award
We’re looking for Thames21’s River Leader of the Year! Can you help? Volunteers are at the heart of Thames21’s work, and we want to…
Farewell Spotlight: Michael Heath
Connecting our communities to the Thames is something that I value. I also valued looking after the staff as a personnel manager. It was great…
Single-use items make up 85% of plastic waste collected at biggest ever Thames ‘Plasticblitz’
Single-use plastic items such as wet wipes, sweet wrappers and plastic bottle tops were the most commonly littered items found in a recent clean-up of…
Volunteers pick up 64,000 wet wipes out of the Thames over five-year period
Around 64,000 wet wipes have been counted and removed from several small sections of the Thames foreshore by volunteers over a period of five years,…