Mid-month your co-chairs, Julia and Richard, took part in the Council’s Climate Summit, in the session on greenspaces. We were asked to show examples of how climate change was affecting the Common and what was being done about it. With amazing help from one of our members – Rosa Navas - we shot a lovely short film of us in conversation with Annabel Osborn, Parks Biodiversity officer at Enable. You can watch it here.

That led very nicely into National Tree Week at the end of the month and the launch of our 150th Anniversary Tree Planting scheme, where we’re aiming to raise £5,000 to plant individual trees and an area of mini-forest on the Common, doing our bit for both climate change and biodiversity support. To read more about it, to donate and to get involved, click here.

The oak, pictured thanks to another of our members, is the so called ‘boundary oak’, sitting on the border between the former parishes of Battersea and Wandsworth. You can see the iron boundary markers crossing the Common in a line N-S. We’ll be highlighting more of these heritage items as we build up to the 150th Anniversary of the Wandsworth Common Act in July 2021.