Join us at Glassmill Pond for our joint volunteering sessions with the Friends of Bromley Town & Parks, to further enhance the recently re-landscaped site.

In 2023 construction began to create a river channel separate from the pond at Glassmill, this was to create a way of filtering the “run off” that enters the pond from the higher catchment area before it enter the Ravensbourne River.

Do you have time to volunteer at Glassmill Pond?

The volunteering tasks over this phase of the project will be working with staff to help improve the current channel; reinforce the “bund” by planting the exposed sides of the channel with suitably strong rooting plug plants such as sedges, rushes, iris and other marginal aquatics.

Bund repairs with clay to the constructed works and maintenance tasks across the site.

Litter picking and vegetation management. We also plan to carry out plant and RMI Surveys to gauge the current bio-diversity of the site.

Volunteer tasks on this day will consist of:

1. With materials, tools and designs Thames21 will provide on the day, we will be constructing 3 nesting pontoons, which we will then install in the pond allowing safe nesting zones for wild fowl, away from predation.
2. Litter picking the site while the vegetation is wintering down.
3. Collecting up any remaining golf balls which are starting to accumulate in the upper channel pond.

What you need to bring with you: sensible clothes for the weather (warm layers, and a rain jacket if cold, sunscreen if sunny do think about your comfort), please bring a water bottle, and a sandwich or something for lunch, alternatively there are shops near the site.

We will provide all the require kit you need for the event, such as waders, tools, PPE, and refreshments (tea, coffee and biscuits to all volunteers).

Shops & Toilets are above 8 mins walk away in the town centre.

Time: 10am – 2pm – We are meeting at 10am, this event will finish at 2pm.

We will provide project information and a health and safety briefing to all volunteers on site.

Time: 10am – 2pm – We are meeting at 10am, this event will finish at 2pm.

Meeting location will be the gates to Glassmill Pond in Bromley Park (Church House Gardens), nearest entrance is Ethelbert Road, Bromley, Nearest postcode BR1 1HZ, What3words location: bridge.shelf.music

Time: 10am – 2pm – We are meeting at 10am, this event will finish at 2pm.