This Sunday, the 12th January, is our first official litter pick of 2025 in Mile End Park. Why not come and join us – we go out whatever the weather – although if it is horrendous we might escape for coffee and cake earlier than usual!

For the litter pick we’ll be meeting by the Art Pavilion, heading north up … read more

In July some of the Friends took part in the Natural History Museum’s GenePools project.

This project is a collaboration between Natural England, the Natural History Museum, Cefas, and citizen scientists from Manchester, Cambridge, Plymouth, Newcastle, Bristol and London. GenePools was designed to trial combining cutting edge DNA technology with citizen science, to collect a large dataset … read more

During 2024 the Friends tried our hand at some Citizen Science in the Park. This is where members of the public and scientists work together to increase scientific knowledge.

We were lucky to work with Earthwatch Europe on their “Great UK WaterBlitz” in September, and before that in July on the Natural History Museum’s GenePools project (more of that amazing … read more

This Thursday is the deadline for commenting on the current planning application to demolish the Grove Road Texaco Garage and replace it with 19 apartments. This planning application is a resubmission of an earlier application (PA/21/01417/A1) which was granted detailed planning consent on 19th May 2022. But as the developer didn’t start construction works within the three year limit … read more