Your donations make an enormous difference at Roots and Shoots, going towards our environmental education programmes and further developing our green spaces. We fundraise for projects which directly improve our site for nature, for education and our community, expanding our offering to as many Londoners as possible.
If you would like to help support any of the initiatives below, please make a donation.
Environmental Education for Primary Schools
Historically, using our Wild Garden full of urban wildlife as a resource, Roots and Shoots provided environmental education to local primary school groups, providing inner-city children with the opportunity to experience nature up-close. In recent years due to the pandemic and an end in funding we sadly had to halt this educational programme, with the School Links programme now using the spaces.
In the summers of 2023 and 2024 we began to trial a new environmental education programme, organising several adhoc sessions with local schools and inviting them to visit our site for activities such as pond dipping and a nature hunt. The sessions were extremely popular with both the schoolchildren and their teachers alike, and we are now fundraising to bring the programme back more permanently alongside a new purpose-built educational space in the Wild Garden.