16-05-2014: Of eels and algae

Wednesday was a day for exploring the river, the lovely weather had the clouds of insects flying over the Hogsmill and the surrounding bridges for the majority of the day and students out in force enjoying the weather.

Joe explains how to wrangle small eels for monitoring

09-05-2014: Meeting the Sopranos

Students, staff and local residents visited Seething Wells halls of residence on a bat walk with local ecologist Alison Fure from the London Bat Group to see what we might see and hear feeding in the skies around the halls on a Friday night.

Molly listens for bats through a detector

01-05-2014: Monitoring the Hogsmill with a little help from our riverine friends

We started April in the river planting up the new renaturalised bank by knights Park, and we've ended the month learning to monitor the state of the Hogsmill and the species in it with a little help from our riverine friends and the team at ZSL.

02-03-2014: Hogsmill River transformed into wetland wonderland!

Volunteers turned out in force to see the culmination of our Hogsmill habitat improvement project at our Knights Park campus. Today's task was to plant up the new riverbank areas with marginal plants ready to take advantage of the spring warmth.

Iaroslava cradles her little plant bundles of joy!

15/16/17-03-2014 : Riverbank building gets underway at the Hogsmill

The big weekend finally arrived - and what a three days it was! Blazing summer sunshine, crowds of eager volunteers and heaps of team spirit saw us through our huge task - to build up a riverbank area next to the concrete wall at Knights Park.

A happy gang at the Hogsmill work on the new riverbank structure

26-02-2014 : Dorich delights once again

We had a full class for this year's orchard maintenance afternoon at Dorich House with the London Orchard Project.

Lewis McNeil from the London Orchard Project enthuses about the need for healthy soil

24/25-02-2014 : Volunteers stake-out the River Hogsmill!

The poor weather of late magically (and thankfully!) relented to allow volunteers to enter the Hogsmill River and begin our biggest volunteer project to date - to renaturalise the River Hogsmill at our Knights Park campus.

Having a laugh in the River - who said hard work wasn't fun?!