Bankside Open Spaces Trust

@bostse1.bsky.social

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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

"A man stands under a climbing white rose in bloom. He is wearing a t-shirt reading Future Gardeners. Text in a green box says, "Our Future Gardeners free gardening course is BLOOMING! Our latest course is growing new gardeners in Thamesmead. Good luck to all our students!"
Three images in a grid. Top left - a man in a black coat stands in a doorway looking up at a nature wreath hung on a wooden door. It is night. Top right - two people work to turn garden clippings into a wreath in a shed-like building. Bottom image is wreathmaking in progress with three people crowded around a table covered in greenery.
Big cheers for volunteers! A picture of happy people with their arms up in the air. Text reads: Last year, we hosted 312 community volunteering sessions and people gave 4,826 hours to our open spaces & events! Find out more about volunteering: www.bost.org.uk/volunteer
A very smiley lady wears a red and white santa hat and holds up a very fine wreath she has made from natural materials in a London park.
Text on a green background reads: I've really enjoyed being on Future Gardeners because of the range of education and experience you get. The training greatly increased my gardening knowledge, and the garden visits and industry talks has improved my understanding of how the horticulture industry works. I didn't realise the number of different sectors that fall under horticulture.”
A young woman laughs at the camera, she is wearing yellow gardening gloves, a pink t-shirt and a bucket hat on a sunny day in an overgrown area of planting in an rban park. Next to her another young person in a black t-shirt wears gardening gloves and holds the head of a wildflower. The Millennium Wheel can be seen to the left. Text on the picture reads: “I definitely wouldn't have been able to get a gardening job this quickly without your help!” Future Gardeners graduate Image credit: Eleanor Bentall (rspb-images.com)
A group of Ghanaian drummers dressed in beautiful dusky green and gold traditional outfits are playing while dancing towards the audience. The Shard towers above them in a blue sky with puffy white clouds.
A wintery graphic advertising or winter Warmer event. Text on a green star spangled background reads You are warmly invited to Bankside Open Spaces Trust's Winter Warmer 12 December 2024, 5-7pm, Red Cross Garden, 50 Redcross Way SE1 1HA. In a lighter green strip at the bottom it says Join us for wreath-making, mulled wine, music and merriment in Octavia Hill's beautiful Red Cross Garden. At the top is a red triangle with Free Entry in it. At the very bottom in a white strip is the Southwark Council logo as they fund the event, the Bankside Open Spaces Trust logo (which is just the name in green text with a flower type graphic next to it) and our web address www.bost.org.uk and email info@bost.org.uk. There's a nice holly wreath around the event details. Jolly.
Three people stand in from of Victorian cottages in Red Cross Garden, London, with their hands held up doing crossed fingers. They are also smiling
A lady losing herself in the music at Bankside Open Spaces Festival in London. A boy in a green tracksuit dances behind her, another child in a striped top is caught mid movement. The lady is making a 'whoop' type shape with her mouth and her arm is raised in joy.
An image of a garden in London with cottage style planting. A path runs up the middle and either side is textural green planting with orange poppies, purple hollyhocks and pink roses. Victorian cottages peep over the plants. A tree towers greenly over the left hand side. At the end of the path is a white fronted building with dark wooden supports. A black mural can just be seen. Behind is a 1960s block of flats.