Friends of the Tawe
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Friends of the Tawe
@friendsofthetawe.bsky.social
Friends of the Tawe is a group of people concerned about the state of the River Tawe and determined to help improve it and protect it.
#Swansea #Abertawe #SwanseaValley
The Big River Watch starts tomorrow! Download the app and go record what you see in and on your local river.
We're watching the #Tawe #Abertawe 🦆
#CitizenScience
#TheRiversTrust
👀Want to help to take care of your local river? Join the #BigRiverWatch by @theriverstrust.bsky.social

Last survey:
💩 1700 of you saw signs of pollution
👎 250 saw algal blooms
🗑️ 50% reported litter

Download the app and survey your river 25th April - 1st May

theriverstrust.org/take-action/...
April 24, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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Thanks to your incredible support, we've hit our target! 💙 But why stop there?

Every extra pound we raise now helps us go further—expanding our river data monitoring. There’s still time to donate until midday 29 April.

👉 Let’s keep going: donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05...
April 23, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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📢 Your donations, doubled!

From 22–29 April, your donation to The Rivers Trust could be doubled through the #BigGive

Double your impact with just one donation & support data-driven work to protect rivers 👇

donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05...

#EarthDay

www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYYd...
The Big Give Green Match Fund 2025
YouTube video by The Rivers Trust
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April 22, 2025 at 11:59 AM
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🚨 Mapping the sewage crisis 💩

Our interactive Sewage Map has been updated with the latest 2024 data, so you can see exactly what happened in our rivers.

Explore where sewage—both treated and untreated—was discharged across England and Wales last year.

theriverstrust.org/sewage-map
April 3, 2025 at 11:06 AM
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£1.3 billion a year. 

 That’s what water pollution is costing England and Wales. 

Nature-friendly farming helps stop harmful fertilisers and pesticides from reaching our rivers. 

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April 10, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Anyone free to battle with aliens tomorrow? (19 April)
Join West Wales Rivers Trust+N Wales Wildlife Trust WaREN Project at Margam Country Park to stop non-native, invasive American skunk cabbage from going to seed.
Bring secateurs + wellies. Free parking for vols who meet at the East Gate at 1pm.
April 18, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Time to take action to help improve our rivers - your chance to do some 'citizen science' with the Rivers Trust. You can also sign up for the Great UK WaterBlitz. theriverstrust.org/take-action/...
The Big River Watch
Help improve our rivers. T ake part in The Big RiverWatch survey between 25th April and 1st May!
theriverstrust.org
April 17, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Our friend Tiff Dew, of the West Wales River Trust invites anyone free to join a guided riverside litter-pick in Swansea this Sunday 30th March. It starts at 10.30am Swansea Vale Nature Reserve. Free all-day parking by the meeting point, along the B4625 bordering the NE side of the reserve.
March 27, 2025 at 9:42 AM