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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

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Bankside Open Spaces Trust @bostse1.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Beautiful crocus photos - thank you for sharing. The lovely weather really does make them glow.
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Bankside Open Spaces Trust @bostse1.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
We love giving people an excuse to duck out of the office - and for a good cause too. Our Bankside Corporate Games fundraises for free afterschool sports activities and is a fantastic way to get competitive with your colleagues, clients and, um, competitors! www.bost.org.uk/bcg 3 July 2025
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Trees for Bermondsey @treesforbermondsey.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
Our third annual Wassail is coming to Bermondsey. Save the date and spread the word! @theorchardproject.bsky.social @nationalparkcity.bsky.social @bostse1.bsky.social @lb-southwark.bsky.social
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Bankside Open Spaces Trust @bostse1.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Our Future Gardeners course is growing - we're delighted to be running a new course in #Thamesmead supported by Peabody and funded by their contractors, Maylim. 10 students are now on an 8-week journey towards a new career in horticulture: www.thamesmeadnow.org.uk/news/general... #Gardeners #Careers
"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!"
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Bankside Open Spaces Trust @bostse1.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
We're so excited to see our planned boost to Marlborough Sports garden featured in @cityam.bsky.social and thanks to @se1.news for highlighting. The can't wait to deliver on this project for SE1.
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Bankside Open Spaces Trust @bostse1.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Vital green spaces research here - highlighting why we've been protecting and caring for urban open spaces for the past 25 years. Well kept spaces are more inviting/feel safer, & community events and activities draw people in &, we hope, make them feel like a park is for them.
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Bankside Open Spaces Trust @bostse1.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
It’s The Wet Potatoes Art Exhibit! Yes, you heard us right – Wet Potatoes, its the name of the very first art collective grown out of one of our programmes. The collective exhibited their nature inspired work in our Ecohouse recently - and we're looking forward to seeing more from them soon!
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Bankside Open Spaces Trust @bostse1.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Wreathmaking! Ahead of our public event tomorrow night, our Exploring Anxiety continuation session group (aka The Wet Potatoes Collective - we love an in-joke 😂) got sustainably creative with garden cuttings and leftover willow from a summer weaving workshop! A beaut of a wreath for our Grow Room.
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.
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Bankside Open Spaces Trust @bostse1.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Big cheers for #volunteers! Happy International Volunteer Day and a massive thank you to the hundreds of volunteers who make our work possible! Find out more about volunteering: www.bost.org.uk/volunteer
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
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Bankside Open Spaces Trust @bostse1.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
When you have you photo taken by a colleague at a festive event and it becomes one of the hero images for next year's marketing. Would you like to be as happy as Hannah with your wreath? Come to our Winter Warmer, 12 December from 5pm in Red Cross Garden! www.bost.org.uk/news/2024/11...
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.
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London SE1 community website @se1.news · 04/12/2024
Borough Welsh Choir Christmas concert tonight Read more ➡️ www.se1.news/whatson/#wed...
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Bankside Open Spaces Trust @bostse1.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
'Get Britain working' is what we're hearing today. As a charity running a programme to tackle unemployment and skills shortages in #horticulture, we're hoping reforms emphasise practical, supportive solutions. What are other people's views on what's needed to support people into work? #employment
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Bankside Open Spaces Trust @bostse1.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Hello new followers! On a Monday after a week of all the wintery autumnal weather, we got to thinking about when it was warm and our outdoor events were packed with sunshine! Here's Nimeii Cultural Group at our BOSFest24. Expect more outdoor events, activities and gardens in #London from us 💚
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.
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Bankside Open Spaces Trust @bostse1.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Its that time of year again - Bankside Open Spaces Trust's Winter Warmer is BACK! And you're invited - join us for wreath-making, mulled wine and merriment on 12 December in Red Cross Garden from 5pm. Free entry, donations for activities & refreshments. All welcome, free tix here: bit.ly/3V5qdzI ☃️
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.
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Holly Tuke @lifeofablindgirl.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Please don’t forget to make your content accessible over here. Here’s a few things you can do. Add alt text to images, memes and gifs. Caption your videos. Capitalise the first letter of each word in hashtags. Limit emojis to one or two per post, and put them at the end. Avoid using fancy fonts.
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Bankside Open Spaces Trust @bostse1.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
It's a classic crossed finger selfie to celebrate 30 years of The National Lottery. With money from your tickets, organisations like ours are able to run community projects that make people's lives better. #ThankYouPlayers #NationalLottery30
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
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Bankside Open Spaces Trust @bostse1.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
How we're feeling about our followers here on Bluesky! Thanks for taking a chance on a bunch of green space & community fun obsessives. We're so happy to share our work & events with you. (Image from Bankside Open Spaces Festival - just one of a calendar of fun outdoor events we throw in #London!)
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.
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Bankside Open Spaces Trust @bostse1.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
This is very useful if you've just joined like us!
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Bankside Open Spaces Trust @bostse1.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Hi Bluesky, we're Bankside Open Spaces Trust a small London based environmental and gardening charity. Here's is one of the urban green spaces we care for - Red Cross Garden, founded in 1886 by co-founder of the National Trust Octavia Hill & restored by us. Can't wait to share more gardens with you.
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.
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