🔥The 9th Round of Easy Loan, Earn $40 Reward is in progress❗️ ⏰ Promotion Period: January 15th - Feburary 15th, 2025 👉 Register now and check more details at gate.io/campaigns/358

Join Community BlueScapes at the CCC - also @castelnaucc.bsky.social every other Tuesday evening from 26 Nov for their Community Art Club 🎨 Take part in water-themed sessions of creativity and fun led by Anna, their friendly community art teacher! Register for an event here ⬇️ orlo.uk/pwH4o

Thank you to our many friends who attended our AGM yesterday. Many thanks to our Chair, Mike Hildesley and all the trustees whose dedication and enthusiasm is inspiring. Special thanks to our Conservation Manager, Will Dartnell for his informative talk on Saproxlic invertebrates.

Join us for a morning working in the Barnes Common community orchard on Wednesday 11 December and learn how to prune apple and pear trees. All tools and equipment will be provided, and there'll be plenty of tea & coffee to keep you warm. Register for free: eventbrite.co.uk/e/community-or…

Learn how to weave your own willow Christmas tree decoration at our special Christmas workshop led by Ellie Morgan on Saturday 21 December. Ages 5-99. All equipment & materials provided. Your ticket (£10) includes a hot drink and a mince pie. barnescommon.org.uk/eventbrite-eve…

Our December newsletter has now arrived in our Friends' inboxes. You can also find it on our website: Friends update with an introduction by our Business Operations Manager, Jackie Marie us12.campaign-archive.com/?u=23dbf39897c…

Our Barnes Common National Hedgehog Monitoring Programme #NHMP survey captured this snuffling hedgehog! 🦔 To see more moments like this, you can become a spotter by visiting shorturl.at/Zc1K9👈 Barnes Common People's Trust for Endangered Species Hedgehog Society ZSL Science

Our Health and Wellbeing team visited our friends at Barnes Common last week to learn more about the growing for wellbeing group. Learn more about the group & sign up to attend: barnescommon.org.uk/eventbrite-eve…

We've still got some places left for our Christmas wreath making workshop next week. Join us for a fun morning on Wednesday the 18th December and create your own festive decoration using natural materials. Tickets £35 inc. materials, hot drink & mince pie eventbrite.co.uk/e/natural-chri…

Protecting nature around us is a great way to create resilience to extreme weather 🐝 Join us at the OSO Arts Centre on Sun 19 Jan to learn more about our work in #Richmond and tell us what you think about upcoming restoration projects! Register 👉 orlo.uk/JJRZF

Want something to look forward to in 2025? 🤩 Our annual UK Moth Recorders' Meeting is back! Join us for a fantastic line-up of talks, from Charismatic Clearwings in mid-Wales to surveying Argyll’s rare moths. Book here 👇 butterfly-conservation.org/moths/uk-moth-… 📷: John Money #MothsMatter

Our Orchards for Schools grant is now open for applications! Get a free pack of fruit-bearing, wildlife-enhancing, carbon-storing orchard or fruiting hedgerow for your school! 💚 Apply here: treecouncil.org.uk/grants-and-gui…

Would you like your children to get out and about in nature more in 2025? We will be running after-school family sessions at the Growing Project every Monday during term time from 13th January onwards. Get your free ticket: barnescommon.org.uk/eventbrite-eve…

These 10 not-so-common birds might not visit every garden, but they’re worth keeping an eye out for this #BigGardenBirdwatch! 👀 Have you seen any of these visitors on your patch before? Sign up & get ready to count this January: brnw.ch/21wPOy1

New year, greener pastures? Certainly skies more blue... We are now on Bluesky and will be less active on the ex-bird app. Follow us there: bsky.app/profile/barnes…

Still time to register for our event in #Barnes this month! Discover more about 👉 the Brook restoration on Barnes Green 👉 citizen science for the family and more 📍Sunday 19 January 10am - 1pm OSO Arts Centre Register at orlo.uk/n69ZK

Help #hedgehogs with a single click! 🦔 Please #ShareToMakeAware!

Join us for a drop in session at the Ruils office to learn more about your democratic rights, register to vote and get an accepted photo ID to vote in person. Thursday 30th January from 10am - 1:30pm No registration needed. Find out more: ruils.co.uk/campaigning/ca… #NoVoteNoVoice

Thank you! We had an amazing time at our showcase event in #Barnes What's next? Find out more about our plans to restore the Beverley Brook on Barnes Green 👉 orlo.uk/jZPAU

If you've recently bought, made or been given a #hedgehog house, make sure you put it somewhere #hedgehogfriendly! 🦔 🏚️ 🍂 Place it somewhere quiet, shady, sheltered & dry (against a wall, fence, hedge or shed) & you may get a 'hog visitor! buff.ly/42bBZt2 📷 Ross McEwan

⭐️ Poet and author Tom Chivers takes a break, from his PhD in Thames Mudlarking, to present a talk for Chiswick Pier Trust 🎉 7pm, Tuesday 25th February. Everyone welcome! Find out about his creative connections with London’s most famous river. Tickets £5: buytickets.at/chiswickpiertr…