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Ecological volunteering at Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park
Planted slap-bang between The City and Canary Wharf is a haven of woodland calm and beauty, where you can do your bit for the environment and the local community…
Written by Adam Bollard
Volunteers: folks doing their bit on a SaturdayWho’da thunk it? A site of natural beauty that is responsible for conservation and social projects galore in East London that I’ve passed on the train on and off for nearly six years - and I had no idea it existed.
Yes, buy I’m talking about Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park, store a 33-acre woodland space that used to be a fully fledged cemetery until it was officially deconsecrated in 1966 and is now managed by a charity, pill The Friends of the Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park. And on Saturday afternoon, I popped along to a conservation day organised for volunteers.
As many as 2,600 volunteers maintain the park’s varied and diverse habitats every year. On Saturday there were around… read more
