April round-up: Trees, spring clean & maps

To mark the successful planting of another 30 trees for our 150th anniversary celebrations, and the completion of the annual Wandsworth wide planting plan, Enable tree officers Liam and Sam gave a highly engaging and entertaining talk about the issues they face monitoring and caring for Wandsworth’s trees.

We took part again in the annual nationwide GB Spring Clean. Our periodic weekend litter picks are in addition to our regular weekly Monday picks and attract those with more time to spare at weekends. We aim to raise awareness of the litter problem and the importance of recycling, with a view to getting more people to use reusable items, to take their litter and recycling home, or use the bins


Philip Boys reprised his popular talk about the History of Wandsworth Common through Maps. Our book ‘The Wandsworth Common Story’ features six maps in its central section to illustrate how the Common has changed over time. Philip showed us several more and embellished the information on them with fascinating stories and anecdotes.

All our talks are now filmed and can be viewed in the news and events section of the website