Grassroots community group dedicated to improving the health of the Silk Stream, its tributaries and the surrounding environment Silkstreamfriends@yahoo.com
Joined July 2020
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4 Mar 2023
The Silk Stream feeding into the Welsh Harp Reservoir, West Hendon, 1922
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These plastic particles smaller than a human hair can pass through cell walls and enter the food web
go.nature.com/3TxSPjT
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Friends of the Silk Stream retweeted
12 Jun 2025
BREAKING: The Ocean Cleanup just announced the next big step in scaling Interceptor deployments worldwide: a 30-city program to cut ocean plastic pollution from rivers by up to one-third by 2030.
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Friends of the Silk Stream retweeted
8 Jun 2025
The ocean… 🌊💙
sustains life,
regulates climate,
hosts biodiversity,
buffers storms,
produces oxygen,
holds untold wonder.
Yet, we’ve polluted its depths and pushed it to the brink.
On #WorldOceanDay and every day, let’s act to #SaveOurOcean.
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1 Jun 2025
#LondonRiversWeek2025 #Silkstream #MontroseplayingFields #SilkstreamPark #BurntOak #Colindale #Barnet
1 Jun 2025
Thanks so much Burnt Oak Nepalese Community and @silkstreamers for organising today’s litter pick and to everyone who joined. Great turnout, always lovely catching up with everyone.
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Friends of the Silk Stream retweeted
21 May 2025
Plastic is everywhere. It makes up 80% of marine pollution, poisoning ecosystems and marine life.
As part of the #OceanDecade, @TheOceanCleanup, @PlasticFischer and @CommonSeas develop pioneering solutions to protect the ocean from plastic pollution: ow.ly/pqkt50VWmzT
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25 May 2025
#SilkStream #LondonRiversWeek2025 #CommunityCleanup #SilkstreamPark #MontrosePlayingFields #BurntOak #Colindale #BurntOakNepaleseCommunity #FriendsoftheSilkStream
Join the Burnt Oak Nepalese Community and the Friends of the Silk Stream for a litter-pick session along the Silk Stream at Montrose Playing Fields as part of #londonriversweek2025.
📅 Sunday 1st June. 11.30am-1pm.
More details: thames21.org.uk/event/london…
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Help us gather data on water quality across the River Brent as part of London Rivers Week 2025! 📊💦
🗓️ 28th May - online training session
🗓️ 6th June - sampling at numerous locations along the Brent and its tributaries.
book.plinth.org.uk/e/IVny4WF…
#thames21 #lrw2025
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Friends of the Silk Stream retweeted
30 Apr 2025
First 99 samples delivered to Imperial @ERGImperial @Thames21 @BrookersDollis @welshharpies @silkstreamers @WealdstoneBrook
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Friends of the Silk Stream retweeted
14 Apr 2025
Great to be working with @WembleyMatters @silkstreamers @welshharpies @LAMuttonBrook @BrookersDollis @woodcockpark @BrentRiverPark @Thames21 @thameswater @imperialcollege @LeonPBarron on this exciting run-off project on the River Brent
14 Apr 2025
WEMBLEY MATTERS: Volunteers in buckets for Brent River Catchment pollution project - hoping to start work tomorrow @BrentPollution @BrentRiverPark @Thames21 wembleymatters.blogspot.com/…
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Friends of the Silk Stream retweeted
22 Mar 2025
Well-researched piece by @jimwaterson on the flats pumping sewage directly into London’s rivers. Six of the blocks are on the Brent or its catchment.
Quotes from our trustee Ben Morris of @BrentPollution.
londoncentric.media/p/reveal…
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Friends of the Silk Stream retweeted
19 Mar 2025
Great to launch this project with Imperial, which is going to sample run-off from over 30 locations throughout the Brent Catchment. @ERGImperial @LeonPBarron @Thames21 @BrentRiverPark @silkstreamers @BrookersDollis @LAMuttonBrook can’t wait to get started!
19 Mar 2025
A workshop with volunteers from Clean Up River Brent to talk to them about it and also on how to collect water samples for us to test.
@helenarapp @PostDocAlex @LeonPBarron @ERGImperial @HPRU_CRTH @HPRU_EEH
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Friends of the Silk Stream retweeted
15 Feb 2025
Hello all!
We've got another clean up at the Welsh Harp happening next Sunday.
🗓️ Sunday 23rd February
🕚 11am-1pm
📍Hawfinch House, NW9 7BX
Please register: eventbrite.co.uk/e/welsh-har…
Hope to see you there 🌱
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Friends of the Silk Stream retweeted
London's sewage crisis: will the Super Sewer solve it? - CPRE London - Tickets cpre-london.eventcube.io/eve…
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Friends of the Silk Stream retweeted
13 Dec 2024
"That record is made from trash".
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Friends of the Silk Stream retweeted
24 Dec 2024
Merry Christmas to all who care for and about our rivers! It’s great to be part of such an active, engaged and determined community. We are conjoined as travellers following a star, or tributaries making for the sea. #strongertogether. (Brent Lodge Park, JE Walduck 1975)
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Friends of the Silk Stream retweeted
21 Nov 2024
We stopped dozens of trash floods like this in Guatemala this year. 🇬🇹
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