In July, we held a event at the House of Lords to launch the Joint Thames Strategies Refresh. As well as developing projects, we have identified a need to refresh the Thames Landscape Strategy document itself and its sister strategies, Thames Landscape Strategy: Kew to Chelsea and Thames Strategy East. This will provide a unified …
We have secured funding from Active Thames to do a number of ‘Cool Walks’ by the River Thames in Hounslow and Richmond during the warmer summer months. This project aims to increase access to blue-green spaces for people with disabilities in Hounslow and strengthen social networks for those experiencing social isolation. Summer 2022 …
Rowing for: The Father Thames Trust, a registered charity (No. 1054655), the charitable arm of theThames Landscape Strategy set up to conserve, enhance and promote the Arcadian Thames betweenWeybridge and Kew. If you love this beautiful stretch of the Thames with its historic vistas and views,please help us ensure that future generations continue to have …
Great River Race 2022: Tiller Girls for Old Father Thames Read More »
250 guests joined the Thames Landscape Strategy with The Father Thames Trust for the virtual 2021 Annual Meeting. We were delighted that the new Patron of the Father Thames Trust, Janina Ramirez was able to join us and deliver a key note message. Janina had been filming all day and rushed home to join us …
REWILDING ARCADIA The Thames Landscape Strategy is currently developing a new project Rewilding Arcadia. It was intended to carry out a period of scoping consultation to see whether our partners support the direction that the initiative proposes however, this has understandably been put on hold during the Covid-19 emergency. In the meantime we have produced two …
Volunteer and public events cancelled or postponed. TLS staff working from home to continue to develop projects and are contactable by email.
Rewilding Arcadia is a new initiative of the Thames Landscape Strategy that takes the ‘On the Edge’ scheme launched by Sir David Attenborough at our 25th anniversary to the next stage. Jason Debney explains….. ‘Large tracts of the Arcadian Thames is characterised by high quality open space set within the statutory floodplain. By …
400 Volunteers from Goldman Sachs out on the River! Just over 400 interns from Goldman Sachs joined the Thames Landscape Strategy this week to carry out a series of valuable conservation tasks. The volunteers carried out a massive Himalayan balsam bashing activity in the Petersham Backwaters (most of which was covered in the stuff) and …
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The Thames Landscape Strategy at 25 Partners, stakeholders and representatives from over 100 separate groups that the TLS works with joined the Thames Landscape Strategy for a week-long celebration of its 25th anniversary in June 2019. Watch Sir David Attenborough’s speech to mark the event: https://youtu.be/nWSZ1DUcJ80 The partnership toured the River Thames being shown examples of …
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Virginians Sparkle in London. Delegation from Virginia visit London to celebrate the links between two great rivers The Arcadian Thames in South west London and the lower James River in Virginia are two of the world’s great cultural, historic and natural waterways. Remarkably, their destiny has been linked to each other for over 400 …
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