The Friends of Garthorne Road Nature Reserve is opening the reserve for the last time this year as we close over the winter months. Come and have a look at our six new information boards funded partly by the Kenneth White Legacy and The Worshipful Company of Gardeners and also come and explore this green quiet oasis and support us.
We will be also having the usual children’s Mini Beast hunt and also a tree trail will be available.
Suggested Donation £2
Bring a picnic and enjoy the nature listen to the birds and see the bees.
Sorry No Dogs or BBQS allowed
Please use public transport or use a bike we have limited bike secure area
Honor Oak Park Station: London Overground & Southern Rail
Entrance on Beadnell Road next to Garthorne Road alleyway.
Disclaimer: The Friends of Garthorne Road Nature Reserve has NOT organised or take any responsibility for the cancellation or any claims for refunds of this event.
An immersive ambience of sounds and words, found in one of London’s hidden gem’s, Garthorne Nature Reserve. A magical and transformative experience awaits you to connect to nature for a renewed sense of navigating life through our senses.
All ages are welcome – children under 16 years of age go free!
Moving On events fine tune your attention to sensory input in nature. Feel and reconnect to your own body through audio imagery and sounds to ease movement and find dances inspired by what you see and sense. Let nature move you and connect to land and all that grows from it.
The installation is part radio installation and part transmitted through headphones. For that you need to bring your phone and headphones! We will send you the sound files a couple of days prior to the event.
It is an intergenerational project that invites all cultures, genders and abilities to join in. Should you have concerns about navigating natural terrain, please get in touch, we are happy to assist.
We want people to encounter nature and each other on common natural ground to foster a togetherness based on equality and openness that reconnects to nature as something that grows away and back into us, to remember our own nature and how to resource from it to be well.
Before and after
Doors will open at 11am and as soon as people have made their way in, we will gather to begin together.
After the event you are welcome to stay on and we invite you to bring food to picnic and hang out.
Disclaimer: The Friends of Garthorne Road Nature Reserve has NOT organised or take any responsibility for the cancellation or any claims for refunds of this event.
Garthorne Road Nature Reserve are having their first Open Day of the year. As spring is about here and the birds start to nest and the spring flowers emerge come and explore what is about, Bring a picnic along. There will be some children activities as well such as Spring Spotter Sheet to discover what is above also a mini beast hunt and a Tree Trail sheet as well.
Suggested donation £2
Please note there are no toilets on the site
Sorry No Dogs or BBQ’S please.
The Garthorne Road Nature Reserve is run wholly by volunteers. Any profits or donations are used to maintain or improve the Nature Reserve and provide educational events for the local community. Donations to the reserve is welcomed.
The Friends of Garthorne Road Nature Reserve conduct monthly volunteer days are on the second Saturday of each month (apart from April due to Easter) and starts at 11am – 3.30pm. We meet at main entrance on Beadnell Road 11am. The work ranges from controlling non-native species to surveying and recording the many wildlife species. if you wish to join us please reserve a place. Further information can be found on the Garthorne Road Nature Reserve Volunteering page.
How to find us: Main gate is at North end of Beadnell Road
Released last year author Chris Schüler, launched of his new book ‘The Wood That Built London’, which just so happens to be all about the Great North Wood! which covered from Deptford to Selhurst and from Streatham to Sydenham If you missed the virtual book launch, click here to watch a replay.
The Friends of Garthorne Road, while not fully established, now have a Facebook Page! Â We are keen to get as many people involved as possible and these days, Social Media is the way to go!
Garthorne Road is an important site forming part of the Forest Hill to New Cross Gate railway cutting, this is a Site of Metropolitan Importance for Nature Conservation as it contains probably the finest suite of railside wildlife habitat in London.
For health & safety reasons the site is closed to public access unless Council staff or volunteers are present to open them. Â We hope that if a Friends Group is established, we can open the site on a more regular basis so that more people can see inside this wonderful site.
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