Amateur archaeologists discovered some unidentified metalwork on a dig recently in the grounds of Swiss Cottage in Cassiobury Park. In preparation for the archaeology dig this summer volunteers from a variety of groups got ...
Continue reading Digging into Cassiobury Park’s history with Green Gym Volunteers

Our Watford Green Gym volunteers have been working on the Cassiobury Park Community Project site for the past year, which is being developed as part of the large Heritage Lottery funded Cassiobury Park project. And, as ...
Continue reading TCV Employee Action Days with Camelot Watford!

Heartfelt thanks to all who joined us for our first anniversary celebration on 2nd September and made it a really enjoyable event. A shortened work session was followed by snacks and cake, as well as a brief ceremony, during ...
Continue reading A Year (and a bit) – TCV Green Gym in Cassbiobury Park, Watford, Celebrates!

The Bromley Green Gym are now a fully constituted group, Ching Chua, secretary of the Bromley Green Gym, tells us of how the group Transformed College Green slip.  Join them to celebrate their launch on the 22nd May, ...
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Pevensey Road Green Gym volunteers undertook a challenge and a half when local group Friends of the River Crane Environment  (FORCE) asked them to build a bridge. Pevensey Road is a beautiful site, one side meadows and the ...
Continue reading The Bridge over Muddy Waters…..

It has been an amazing season at the Camden Green Gym with late summer lingering well into November, when we celebrated our sixth anniversary at an enjoyable post-session picnic in the dappled shade of Regent´s Park Leafyard ...
Continue reading The Camden Green Gym – 6 Years

Last Saturday was a strange day to be working outdoors. London, in its typical, indecisive way, couldn't make up its mind about what sort of weather it wanted to give its inhabitants. Apparently, the volunteers in the Oasis ...
Continue reading Adding New Colour to an Oasis – Part 2

Our new conservation project is in a small site next to the outdoor swimming pool of the ‘Oasis Sports Centre’ in Holborn. The idea seems straightforward - we are here to create a space for growing food that has the ...
Continue reading Adding New Colour to an Oasis – Part 1

  At first, ‘Ingestre Woods’ seemed to be that little overgrown, discarded park hidden behind some council flats that you wouldn’t have given a second glance. There had been some half-hearted interest from the children in ...
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