Heath Hands

It was a great occasion to share with so many groups across City of London Corporation

We've been grateful to have the support of some amazing groups of corporate volunteers over the last couple of weeks on Hampstead Heath. Thanks to everyone from Medik8 Baker McKenzie Sustainable Trading Accenture Handelsbanken and JTI for your help!

Our organisation turns 25 years this year and to celebrate, we made this short film with our friend, filmmaker and photographer extraordinaire Matthew Maran! We feel it does a great job of showcasing our work and that of our volunteers across Hampstead Heath, the Kenwood Estate and Highgate Wood. Thanks to Matt for all his time and thanks to our partners City of London Corporation and English Heritage for working with us! https://lnkd.in/eyxQTvXW

Today is #WorldEnvironmentDay and we’re in the middle of National #VolunteersWeek so a great opportunity to thank all our volunteers for helping look after Hampstead Heath and the Kenwood Estate and working to connect people with nature across our green spaces alongside our partners at City of London Corporation and English Heritage. #thankyou #volunteer

This week is hedgehog awareness week and, fittingly, the past couple of weeks have been very hedgehog-focused at Heath Hands as we marked 1 year of our hedgehog-friendly Heath project (read more: https://lnkd.in/eiyeyTtP) and worked with our partners at Zoological Society of London (ZSL) London Hogwatch and City of London Corporation’ Hampstead Heath to set out 150 cameras across the Heath (including English Heritage Kenwood Estate) to monitor our local hedgehog population. Many thanks to all who have worked with us on these projects so far and we look forward to continued collaboration over the coming year! If you’d like to check out the results of the Heath’s last hedgehog survey (and our other monitoring projects), head over to https://lnkd.in/ex9-wjRm

Thanks to Camden Giving for their support for our youth programmes

This #InternationalWomensDay we're recognising the unique contributions of women on Hampstead Heath - thank you to all the wonderful women and girls who volunteer and work on the heath. #IWD24 #InspireInclusion2024

We're about to begin some projects at the Men's and Mixed Ponds on Hampstead Heath. After the works to improve accessibility, we'll be landscaping the construction sites, creating areas for wildlife and greening up the buildings. If you'd like to support us we're fundraising: https://lnkd.in/gcvxeG9f

Today is #internationalvolunteeringday so we’d like to say a HUGE thank you to all our volunteers old and young, long-term or one-off, for helping us look after Hampstead Heath and run all our projects on our green spaces. #thankyou

Thanks for your hard work helping us look after the Heath Simply Business! Glad you enjoyed your time out with us 👍