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Bankside Open Spaces Trust @bostse1.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Sprunging! Lovely brimstone - everything is better for the changing seasons :-)

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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

Our increased focus on #communityengagement has been about making visiting spaces & #volunteering easier. Smaller projects created in partnership with organisations already working with specific groups of people are essential, alongside accessible tools and working areas. Let us know your thoughts:

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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

This group grew out of our partnership w/ Psychosynthesis Trust - Exploring Anxiety. At the end of a 10-week course, we found some participants keen to do more, but needing a bit more support before joining a volunteer group or training. These new sessions are a creative way of building confidence!

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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 · 05/12/2024

Is this the year we actually try it?! Let's hope so :-)

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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 · 04/12/2024

Thank you. Festive and helpful! Like old FC himself...

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Bankside Open Spaces Trust @bostse1.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Always delivering what we need, before we know we need it. What a thread! Happy hog day.

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Bankside Open Spaces Trust @bostse1.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Wow! Sending love to your team! Lots to sort out.

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Bankside Open Spaces Trust @bostse1.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Reflecting on our experience, those looking to address #unemployment, particularly among younger people & those w/ additional needs should work hand in hand w/ industries, focus on barriers to entry, often cost/location, & demonstrate the broad range of roles available.

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.”

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Bankside Open Spaces Trust @bostse1.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Our Future Gardeners course was designed with industry experts and focuses on removing barriers to entry so people can follow explore an outdoor career whatever their background. 76% of grads secure jobs or further training: www.bost.org.uk/future-garde...

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)

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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 · 25/11/2024

Do check before lighting bonfires, hibernating lime bikes love leaf piles at this time of year...

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Bankside Open Spaces Trust @bostse1.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Almost, we've only engaged with a very specific audience on there recently. It's a toxic place nowadays, it's not great for people to see all the negative, violent posts as part of their working day.

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Bankside Open Spaces Trust @bostse1.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Lots of lovely followers - just need to work out resources to engage effectively. It's a struggle with a solo marketing bod covering all the things🙃 But at least there's no toxicity to wade through. Lots of outdoor photos, many cats. Happy days.

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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 ☃️

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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 · 20/11/2024

We sometimes get a water loving variant of these trees in our urban ponds. What a treat! 😂

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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

We had the same thought. Where are the balls? Bluesky needs balls.

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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

This is great - we have just joined and are exploring. Thanks for gathering other charities together. We have lots to learn! And thanks for the follow :-)

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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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