Bankside Open Spaces Trust
@bostse1.bsky.social
Environmental & volunteering charity based in London SE1. Our aims are to transform open spaces, enhance health & wellbeing, empower & engage local communities, & champion sustainability. Posts: green spaces, free & fun events, gardening, free training
Beautiful crocus photos - thank you for sharing. The lovely weather really does make them glow.
Crocuses at Red Cross Garden with Elijah Hoole's cottages behind. It was originally laid out by the landscape gardeners Emmeline Sieveking and Fanny Wilkinson; restored in recent years by @bostse1.bsky.social. The scheme was an early one by the social reformer Octavia Hill. #SundayYellow
March 5, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Beautiful crocus photos - thank you for sharing. The lovely weather really does make them glow.
We love giving people an excuse to duck out of the office - and for a good cause too. Our Bankside Corporate Games fundraises for free afterschool sports activities and is a fantastic way to get competitive with your colleagues, clients and, um, competitors! www.bost.org.uk/bcg 3 July 2025
February 24, 2025 at 4:33 PM
We love giving people an excuse to duck out of the office - and for a good cause too. Our Bankside Corporate Games fundraises for free afterschool sports activities and is a fantastic way to get competitive with your colleagues, clients and, um, competitors! www.bost.org.uk/bcg 3 July 2025
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Our third annual Wassail is coming to Bermondsey. Save the date and spread the word! @theorchardproject.bsky.social @nationalparkcity.bsky.social @bostse1.bsky.social @lb-southwark.bsky.social
February 23, 2025 at 9:50 AM
Our third annual Wassail is coming to Bermondsey. Save the date and spread the word! @theorchardproject.bsky.social @nationalparkcity.bsky.social @bostse1.bsky.social @lb-southwark.bsky.social
Our Future Gardeners course is growing - we're delighted to be running a new course in #Thamesmead supported by Peabody and funded by their contractors, Maylim. 10 students are now on an 8-week journey towards a new career in horticulture: www.thamesmeadnow.org.uk/news/general... #Gardeners #Careers
February 12, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Our Future Gardeners course is growing - we're delighted to be running a new course in #Thamesmead supported by Peabody and funded by their contractors, Maylim. 10 students are now on an 8-week journey towards a new career in horticulture: www.thamesmeadnow.org.uk/news/general... #Gardeners #Careers
We're so excited to see our planned boost to Marlborough Sports garden featured in @cityam.bsky.social and thanks to @se1.news for highlighting. The can't wait to deliver on this project for SE1.
"Places like @bostse1.bsky.social's Marlborough Sports Garden are the underpinning lifeblood of the capital. And it is on us, business and the wider community to ensure they thrive, develop and continue to provide us with small areas of joy in this concrete jungle..."
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Marlborough Sports Garden: A £5m project to boost the City
Marlborough Sports Garden in Southwark is a crucial space for Londoners. Looking to raise £5m for a development, why should the City back it?
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January 27, 2025 at 11:56 AM
We're so excited to see our planned boost to Marlborough Sports garden featured in @cityam.bsky.social and thanks to @se1.news for highlighting. The can't wait to deliver on this project for SE1.
Vital green spaces research here - highlighting why we've been protecting and caring for urban open spaces for the past 25 years. Well kept spaces are more inviting/feel safer, & community events and activities draw people in &, we hope, make them feel like a park is for them.
New to our Resources Hub: a study by Dr Anna Bornioli and co-authors outlines various factors that limit women's and gender minorities' #accesstonature, sense of belonging in #urbangreenspaces, and benefits from spending time in green and blue environments.
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January 23, 2025 at 9:41 AM
Vital green spaces research here - highlighting why we've been protecting and caring for urban open spaces for the past 25 years. Well kept spaces are more inviting/feel safer, & community events and activities draw people in &, we hope, make them feel like a park is for them.
It’s The Wet Potatoes Art Exhibit! Yes, you heard us right – Wet Potatoes, its the name of the very first art collective grown out of one of our programmes. The collective exhibited their nature inspired work in our Ecohouse recently - and we're looking forward to seeing more from them soon!
January 22, 2025 at 4:10 PM
It’s The Wet Potatoes Art Exhibit! Yes, you heard us right – Wet Potatoes, its the name of the very first art collective grown out of one of our programmes. The collective exhibited their nature inspired work in our Ecohouse recently - and we're looking forward to seeing more from them soon!
Wreathmaking! Ahead of our public event tomorrow night, our Exploring Anxiety continuation session group (aka The Wet Potatoes Collective - we love an in-joke 😂) got sustainably creative with garden cuttings and leftover willow from a summer weaving workshop! A beaut of a wreath for our Grow Room.
December 11, 2024 at 4:59 PM
Wreathmaking! Ahead of our public event tomorrow night, our Exploring Anxiety continuation session group (aka The Wet Potatoes Collective - we love an in-joke 😂) got sustainably creative with garden cuttings and leftover willow from a summer weaving workshop! A beaut of a wreath for our Grow Room.
Big cheers for #volunteers! Happy International Volunteer Day and a massive thank you to the hundreds of volunteers who make our work possible! Find out more about volunteering: www.bost.org.uk/volunteer
December 5, 2024 at 3:26 PM
Big cheers for #volunteers! Happy International Volunteer Day and a massive thank you to the hundreds of volunteers who make our work possible! Find out more about volunteering: www.bost.org.uk/volunteer
When you have you photo taken by a colleague at a festive event and it becomes one of the hero images for next year's marketing. Would you like to be as happy as Hannah with your wreath? Come to our Winter Warmer, 12 December from 5pm in Red Cross Garden! www.bost.org.uk/news/2024/11...
December 4, 2024 at 5:23 PM
When you have you photo taken by a colleague at a festive event and it becomes one of the hero images for next year's marketing. Would you like to be as happy as Hannah with your wreath? Come to our Winter Warmer, 12 December from 5pm in Red Cross Garden! www.bost.org.uk/news/2024/11...
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December 4, 2024 at 11:22 AM
'Get Britain working' is what we're hearing today. As a charity running a programme to tackle unemployment and skills shortages in #horticulture, we're hoping reforms emphasise practical, supportive solutions. What are other people's views on what's needed to support people into work? #employment
November 26, 2024 at 11:18 AM
'Get Britain working' is what we're hearing today. As a charity running a programme to tackle unemployment and skills shortages in #horticulture, we're hoping reforms emphasise practical, supportive solutions. What are other people's views on what's needed to support people into work? #employment
Hello new followers! On a Monday after a week of all the wintery autumnal weather, we got to thinking about when it was warm and our outdoor events were packed with sunshine! Here's Nimeii Cultural Group at our BOSFest24. Expect more outdoor events, activities and gardens in #London from us 💚
November 25, 2024 at 4:47 PM
Hello new followers! On a Monday after a week of all the wintery autumnal weather, we got to thinking about when it was warm and our outdoor events were packed with sunshine! Here's Nimeii Cultural Group at our BOSFest24. Expect more outdoor events, activities and gardens in #London from us 💚
Its that time of year again - Bankside Open Spaces Trust's Winter Warmer is BACK! And you're invited - join us for wreath-making, mulled wine and merriment on 12 December in Red Cross Garden from 5pm. Free entry, donations for activities & refreshments. All welcome, free tix here: bit.ly/3V5qdzI ☃️
November 21, 2024 at 1:56 PM
Its that time of year again - Bankside Open Spaces Trust's Winter Warmer is BACK! And you're invited - join us for wreath-making, mulled wine and merriment on 12 December in Red Cross Garden from 5pm. Free entry, donations for activities & refreshments. All welcome, free tix here: bit.ly/3V5qdzI ☃️
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It's a classic crossed finger selfie to celebrate 30 years of The National Lottery. With money from your tickets, organisations like ours are able to run community projects that make people's lives better. #ThankYouPlayers #NationalLottery30
November 19, 2024 at 3:04 PM
It's a classic crossed finger selfie to celebrate 30 years of The National Lottery. With money from your tickets, organisations like ours are able to run community projects that make people's lives better. #ThankYouPlayers #NationalLottery30
How we're feeling about our followers here on Bluesky! Thanks for taking a chance on a bunch of green space & community fun obsessives. We're so happy to share our work & events with you. (Image from Bankside Open Spaces Festival - just one of a calendar of fun outdoor events we throw in #London!)
November 15, 2024 at 10:09 AM
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Hi Bluesky, we're Bankside Open Spaces Trust a small London based environmental and gardening charity. Here's is one of the urban green spaces we care for - Red Cross Garden, founded in 1886 by co-founder of the National Trust Octavia Hill & restored by us. Can't wait to share more gardens with you.
November 14, 2024 at 2:26 PM
Hi Bluesky, we're Bankside Open Spaces Trust a small London based environmental and gardening charity. Here's is one of the urban green spaces we care for - Red Cross Garden, founded in 1886 by co-founder of the National Trust Octavia Hill & restored by us. Can't wait to share more gardens with you.