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We’re looking forward to working with the wonder We’re looking forward to working with the wonderful @culpepergarden to provide two free workshops for 11-16 yr olds on the river next week! There are still places left, link to sign up in the bio ☝️☝️☝️ 💦Come and join Surge Cooperative on the Channelsea River in Stratford, to learn about the ways we are working with the river to create cooperative boat moorings, improve biodiversity and get to know the other species we’re sharing the space with. Build a floating habitat to help clean the water and provide nesting for birds, create amphibian dens to attract toads, snakes and other creatures to the ecology garden on the river bank, get your hands dirty with an experiential talk about mud and river ecologies with Prof. Kate Spencer, and connect with the soundscapes of the river and its surroundings through a listening session.💦
This week we’re celebrating our 4th birthday! Fo This week we’re celebrating our 4th birthday! Four years since we waded around in the mud, clearing rubbish from the riverbed before bringing the Madorcha upstream from Cody Dock to our site on the Channelsea. It’s been an adventure so far, and we’re still having fun and embedding ourselves deeper into the ecologies around us, finding more ways to live in harmony with our surroundings and meeting so many amazing people along the way! Thanks to all who’ve been involved so far, here’s to many more years of cooperative river living and loving 💦💦💦
Deadline for #newhamcommunityassembly voting is to Deadline for #newhamcommunityassembly voting is tomorrow! It’s easy to vote, just head to the link in our bio, register on the platform, then add our project to your basket! You can add up to £100,000 worth of projects, and there’s so many great ideas to support - @lovelondone15 @_abbeygardens @ambition_aspire_achieve and many more! ✅✅✅✅✅✅✅ We are applying with a trio of inter-linked projects that will support our community’s care of and engagement in the green blue spaces around the Channelsea river, and at the Long Wall Path Ecology Garden. A workshop series at the garden will build our volunteer network, establishing a regular group for the community orchard we are planting, and also (in collaboration with soil and composting cooperative @compost_mentis_coop) using creative activities to learn about alternative methods of waste management, and the role we play in the diverse ecosystems around us (local priorities 1&4). We will also design and build a welcome archway for the garden, including an engagement workshop for the design process. The archway will mark the garden as a space for collective action, helping to reduce the litter and anti-social behaviour on site (local priority 2) by establishing a sense of value for what the garden offers in return for its creation. 🌿🌿🌿 We will also purchase a new green solar charged propulsion system for our safety boat, greening-up our access to the waterspace, to help us reduce our impact on the immediate environment (local priority 1). This will engage more people in the work we’re doing on the waterways, creating partnerships that benefit local communities by showing stakeholders and community groups around the river and giving us access to maintain the Channelsea Floating Islands and undertake biodiversity surveys (local priorities 1 & 4). 💦💦💦
A few more of @lydiathornley’s sketches from the A few more of @lydiathornley’s sketches from the event last weekend, capturing the dynamism of our litter picking and bug hunting! 🐛🦟🐞 Don’t forget to VOTE FOR US in the #newhamcommunityassembly this year - so we can do more workshops like this one! Link in the bio 👆
Here are some of @lydiathornley’s beautiful sket Here are some of @lydiathornley’s beautiful sketches of last Saturday’s event for @thames21 #londonrivers week ‘River Walk • River Talk • River Study’ - she captures the aliveness of the creatures so beautifully, you can almost feel them jumping off the page! Looking forward to having her back to lead a workshop on the river soon… 💦🪲💦 AND don’t forget to VOTE FOR US in the #newhamcommunityassembly this year - so we can do more workshops like these! Link in the bio 👆
Getting up close with the neighbours! Lovely photo Getting up close with the neighbours! Lovely photos from @anadrth of a common blue butterfly, a money spider, and a parasitic wasp, and lots of close up looking. It was incredible to see such detail, hairy eyes, ovipositors, wing markings, antenna, a sawfly’s ‘saw’, beetle wings… so much variety and beauty! We only kept them in the tube for a few minutes before putting them back where we found them. #londonriversweek @thames21 @officialthameswater @clhlondon @rokhsana_fiaz @newhamlondon 🐞🐛🦟🕷🪲🐜🪳 AND don’t forget to VOTE FOR US in the #newhamcommunityassembly this year - so we can do more workshops like these! Link in the bio 👆
Such a beautiful morning yesterday down on the ban Such a beautiful morning yesterday down on the banks of the Channelsea for ‘River Walk • River Talk • River Study’, part of @thames21 #londonriversweek. We talked about river flows and ecologies as we wandered along the Long Wall path, picking litter as we went, and (sadly) filling 20 bags full by the time we’d picked our way around the ecology garden site. There we met @tree_russ to learn about how the site already provides particular and varied habitats for invertebrates, as local illustrator @lydiathornley sketched the action (we’ll post her beautiful sketches here soon!). We got to see some of our smaller neighbours up very close, giving us all a greater perspective on, and first hand experience of, the incredible variety of life on earth. We met some beautiful bugs, we’ll share some of these over the next few days! These beautiful photos by @rkrkcr8. Thanks to all who came down! #growbackgreener @groundworklondon @newhamlondon @clhlondon @rokhsana_fiaz @officialthameswater
Here’s a mayfly spotted by @tree_russ Russel Mil Here’s a mayfly spotted by @tree_russ Russel Miller when surveying the Long Wall ecology garden the other week - we’ve read that their larvae are highly sensitive to pollution, so we’re wondering where this one may have come from, and what the sighting says about the river… we will be asking Russell this and much more this Saturday on our ‘River Walk • River Talk • River Study’ event, part of @thames21 #londonriversweek currently in full swing! Loads of great events, you can find the link to ours in our bio, and check out the Thames 21 page for more! 💦💦💦 Photo credit Russell Miller
Voting is now open for this year’s NCIL funding, Voting is now open for this year’s NCIL funding, organised by the amazing #newhamcommunityassembly ⭐️ Our project ‘Welcome to the Channelsea: caring for our blue green future’ focuses on activities that will create lots more opportunities for volunteering and greater access to the waterspace and learning about biodiversity. We can’t do this on our own, we need to grow our network of people to care for our green and blue spaces, and to do that WE NEED YOUR VOTE! To vote go to the link in our bio, register on Newham Co-create website, and add us to your basket. You can vote for up to £100,000 worth of projects! ✅✅✅ We are applying with a trio of inter-linked projects that will support our community’s care of and engagement in the green blue spaces around the Channelsea river, and at the Long Wall Path Ecology Garden. A workshop series at the garden will build our volunteer network, establishing a regular group for the community orchard we are planting, and also (in collaboration with soil and composting cooperative @compost_mentis_coop) using creative activities to learn about alternative methods of waste management, and the role we play in the diverse ecosystems around us (local priorities 1&4). We will also design and build a welcome archway for the garden, including an engagement workshop for the design process. The archway will mark the garden as a space for collective action, helping to reduce the litter and anti-social behaviour on site (local priority 2) by establishing a sense of value for what the garden offers in return for its creation. 🌿🌿🌿 We will also purchase a new green solar charged propulsion system for our safety boat, greening-up our access to the waterspace, to help us reduce our impact on the immediate environment (local priority 1). This will engage more people in the work we’re doing on the waterways, creating partnerships that benefit local communities by showing stakeholders and community groups around the river and giving us access to maintain the Channelsea Floating Islands and undertake biodiversity surveys (local priorities 1 & 4). 💦💦💦
Happening soon! Just over a week to go until our Happening soon! Just over a week to go until our event for this year’s #londonriversweek organised by @thames21 - join us for a walk and talk along the Channelsea, followed by an adventure into the undergrowth to discover what bugs are making their home on the banks of the river at the Long Wall Ecology garden. Lead by expert invertebrate finder @treecoruss and documented by local artist @lydiathornley. It’s going to be great! There’s still a few places left, more info and link to sign up in the bio 🌀
Come and join us in celebration of @thames21 #lond Come and join us in celebration of @thames21 #londonriversweek on Saturday July 16th. We’ll be walking, litter picking and talking along the Channelsea river path, to the Long Wall ecology garden site where we’ll catch up with @tree_russ (Russell Miller) invertebrate spcecialist to see what beautiful bugs we can find on site and what this tells us about the area and the health of the river and it’s surroundings. We’re also excited to have local artist @lydiathornley joining us to sketch the morning’s activity and invertebrate finds. The event if FREE, looking forward to seeing you there! Sign up link in bio 💦
Great day with @tree_russ finding invertebrates at Great day with @tree_russ finding invertebrates at the Long Wall Path Ecology garden the other day, finding beauties such as the Squash bug, which Russell had not seen before and is restricted to Southern England, a swollen thighed beetle, a carder bee and many more! We’re looking forward to the full report, it’s already looking like the site has many species, more than we first expected! If you’d like to come and join us finding bugs, Russell will be back on July 16th for ‘River walk • River talk • River study’, an event we’re facilitating for @thames21’s #LondonRiversWeek - all welcome, more info and sign up link in the bio 💦 Photo credit Russell Miller
We have submitted our project for this year’s co We have submitted our project for this year’s community assembly funding: 💦Welcome to the Channelsea: caring for our blue green future💦 Three interlinked projects that support the community’s stewardship of, and engagement with the Channelsea river and the Long Wall Path ecology garden. ✅✅✅ If we’re successful there’ll be a workshop series in collaboration with @compost_mentis_coop, using creative activities to learn about alternative methods of waste management, and the role we play in the diverse ecosystems around us. We will also design and build a welcome archway for the garden, including an engagement workshop for the design process. And we’ll purchase a new green solar charged propulsion system for our safety boat, greening-up our access to the waterspace, giving us and the wider community better access to the river for restoration and surveying. 👏👏👏 Fingers crossed we get through to the voting round, watch this space! 🤞🤞🤞 There’s still time to get involved in the Assembly yourself - application deadline is this Sunday. See @newhamlondon for more details!
Lovely day hanging out at @_abbeygardens today, li Lovely day hanging out at @_abbeygardens today, live music, delicious carrot cake from @spring.cafe.garden , lots of flowers in bloom, and good chats with @compost_mentis_coop about the system their developing for this garden, and plans for our collaboration over at the ecology garden on the Channelsea… more info about that soon!
Beautiful day for cruising along the Channelsea ye Beautiful day for cruising along the Channelsea yesterday, yellow flag iris in bloom on the island, lush layers of green and blue all along the banks, reed beds returning, Himalayan balsam too of course, a heron flight, and always the horizon of cranes…. 💚🌱💚🌱
Great to be part of @sound_camp once again this ye Great to be part of @sound_camp once again this year, with the live stream set up on one of our surrogate habitats on the Channelsea River. The stream is open now for you to listen in, lots of visiting feathered friends including young Egyptian goslings, link to listen in bio. 👂👂👂 The sounds are be part of ‘Reveil’, 24 hour live stream of the dawn chorus as it travels around the world in celebration of #internationaldawnchorusday - listen in now via the @sound_camp bio.
Beautiful day for meeting with Lewis from @theorch Beautiful day for meeting with Lewis from @theorchardproject to start planning the community orchard aspect of the Long Wall Ecology garden. Very exciting to chat about tree varieties, positions, soil condition, the benefits of an open sunny site and all the ways you can be involved! We’ll be keeping you updated with progress here so keep an eye out 👀 And great to see the geese and a cormorant making use of one of the new islands, drying out feathers and sheltering goslings 🪶💚 @mayorofldn @groundworklondon @officialthameswater #GrowBackGreener
Last week we finally floated the Channelsea Commun Last week we finally floated the Channelsea Community Islands! So much thanks to all that contributed to their creation, they are now floating in the river ready to grow and flourish and provide homes for creatures for all kinds! So keep a look out for their evolution as you cycle or walk past on the Greenway, and post your pictures! #peoplepowerproject #newhamcommunityassembly 🏝🏝🏝 You can also sign up to be on the next @newhamlondon Community Assembly working group - your chance to be part of the next round of neighbourhood funding, playing a key role in community work across the ward and meeting great people along the way! Visit - https://newhamco-create.co.uk/en/projects/community-assemblies-working-group to sign up 💚💚💚
It’s the last @newhamlondon community assembly t It’s the last @newhamlondon community assembly tonight! Your chance to hear from the projects funded by your votes last year, and find out how you can get involved in your local working group, help the council to shape the next cycle of assemblies where another £100,000 will be available in our neighbourhood. 6-7pm online via Zoom, link in bio 👆
What a great day we had last weekend building the What a great day we had last weekend building the Channelsea Community Islands! 💚💚💚 Many thanks to all who came down, it was a wonderful way to spend the day together, our seamless heavy lifting team work at the end of the day was a testament to the group cohesion that had occurred over the hours we worked and chatted together! 💪💪💪 After a few hours at the Carpenter and Dockland community centre, planning, chatting, measuring and tying, we had our seven habitats assembled and coir rolls in place! Loading them into the vans we then took the short trip down to the river to crane them onto the boat ready to be floated on the next high tide, realising later that we had in fact traced the original route of the river. 💦💦💦 We’ve been busy since preparing them with chains, ready to go into their final positions next Wednesday 23rd March. If you’re in the area please pass by and watch them being put into place! #peoplepowerproject #newhamcommunityassembly
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