For our first anniversary, we held a special online event to showcase 100 voices making London greener, healthier and wilder.
A series of quick fire talks from inspirational people taking positive action to inspire us all to re-imagine London as a greener, healthier, wilder city.
The amazing range of speakers we had across all three evenings are listed below. Check them out, follow their links, connect with them on social media. We love a good conversation to create connections and new ideas!
Watch and Listen Now!
Watch many of our speakers now on our YouTube Channel. We've created a Playlist of them all.
We'll be uploading more videos of the talks, walks, conversations over the next week or so. Please do keep checking back for more.
We would like to continue to add Voices from our National Park City, so if you are interested in contributing a 3 minute video, please drop us a line at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Tuesday 21st June 2020
On the first day of our 100 Voices from London National Park City we heard from people across the city on subjects including fruit trails and community gardens, sustainable schools and greener choices, street art, cycling, litter, rivers, nature reserves, gardening and much more!
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| Name | Title | Organisation (if relevant) | Website | ||
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| Ben Smith | National Park City Foundation trustee introduction | ||||
| Ian Solomon-Kawall | LITTER LIVE VIDEO PERFORMANCE | May Project Gardens | https://www.3kmt.co.uk | ||
| Mike Priaulx | Protecting Our Threatened Urban Biodiversity | Islington Swfits Group | islingt_swifts | ||
| Divya Hariramani | Fruity walks | FruityWalks | FruityWalks | ||
| Crista Buznea | Greener Choices and Building Back Better in London | www.CristaBuznea.com | |||
| Martin Crabbe | A New Podcast: Doorways to Sustainable Schools | London Sustainable Schools Forum | LdnSusSchools | doorwayspodcast | http://www.londonsustainableschools.org/doorways-podcast.html |
| Matt Ponting | How I made a mini garden | _DoodlingAround | doodling.around | ||
| Kate Stockings | How lockdown has turned me into a London cyclist | kate_stockings | www.katestockings.com | ||
| Mark Kier | You can be heard! Wildlife Protection | ||||
| Elayne Coakes | Wildlife in your garden: the environment and your impact | Willesden Green Town Team | WillesdenGreenTown | ||
| Chamu Kuppuswamy | A National Park City in an International City | Peak District National Park Authority - Volunteer Ranger | |||
| Chloe & Alex | Fertile Grounds | Fertile Grounds | fertilegrounds.art | ||
| Rob Gray | Citizen Crane: using citizen science to improve a river | Friends of the River Crane Environment (FORCE) | friendsrivcrane | ||
| ATM | Celebrating Freshwater Life | ATMstreetart | AtmStreetart | atmstreetart | |
| Miles Attenborough | Treasures of Tunnel Gardens | ||||
| Vitra Sookoo | Sacred spaces | ||||
| Trevor Sharman | Lammas Community Forest Garden, a space for real life | Ealing Transition Initiative | ealingtransition | www.ealingtransition.org.uk |
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| Michelle Parkes | Littering during lockdown | Plogolution | plogolution | plogolution | www.plogolution.com |
| Astha Johri | LOT - London's Land Bank | Royal College of Art | |||
| Sophie Leguil | More than Weeds: let's rewild our streets! | More Than Weeds | morethanweeds | ||
| Peter Barbalov | Ecologic Economies | Farrells | PeterBarbalov | http://linkedin.com/in/peterbarbalov | |
| Shaira Begum | Social and therapeutic gardening in women's refuges in East London | Women's Environmental Network | Shairaecostuff | climatereframe | |
| Sian Moxon | Rewilding Your Street: transforming London’s streets through design | Rewild My Street | rewildmystreet | rewildmystreet | www.rewildmystreet.org |
| Elliot Newton | ReImagine, ReThink, ReWild London | elliotnewton90 | |||
| Ellie | Life, but Greener. | Greenish | _thegreenish | thegreenish.co.uk | |
| John Goldwyn | Reimagining our urban centres through guerrilla greening | WATG | watgdesigns | watgdesigns | WATGDesigns |
| London National Park City Rangers | What we can do with the power of 54 | https://www.nationalparkcity.london/rangers |
Wednesday 22nd June 2020
On the second day of our 100 Voices from London National Park City we heard from people across the city on subjects including wildlife photography and gardening networks, personal experiences of our wild city, solar schools, wild swimming, orienteering, digital technologies, fungi, food and forest bathing!
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| Name | Title | Organisation (if relevant) | Website | ||
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| Eilish Kavanagh | National Park City Foundation trustee introduction | ||||
| Aude Vuilliomenet | GardensofThings - Digital Technologies to help greening London | www.gardensofthings.com | |||
| Michael Green | Introducing the London Fungus Network | London Fungus Network | londonfungusnetwork | londonfungusnetwork | |
| Vincent Brown | Walworth Community Gardenning Network | Walworth Community Garden Netwowrk | cgnwalworth | walworthcgn.co.uk | |
| Kelly Clark | How Londons national cycle network links our communities and green spaces | Sustrans | |||
| Kathleen Hogan Ehrlich | Reimagining Butler's Wharf Riverside | Butler's Wharf Riverside Trust | bwriverside | butlerswharfriverside | butlerswharfriverside |
| Kabir Kaul, National Park City Ranger | My experiences with the Wild Side of London, one year on | Not relevant | Kaulofthewilduk | www.kaulofthewild.com | |
| Kenneth Greenway | Wild Food in the City | The Friends of Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park | fothcp iamkengreenway www.fothcp.org | ||
| Katie Mills | Forest Bathing in London | Forest Bathing London | forestandfamily | www.katiemills.co.uk | |
| Sarah Gregory | Investing in the future of our communities | May Project Gardens | arevolutionofourown | ||
| Dee O'Connell | How the Lea Valley changed my life | The Brokedown Palace / London Waterkeeper | ldnwaterkeeper | ||
| Agamemnon Otero | Energy Garden: Opening up London train lines to biodivsersity | Energy Garden | EnergyGardenLDN | ||
| Hugh Chapman | Trees with wheels | ||||
| Donald Waugh | Pavement2Catwalk - nature | Pave2Catwalk | pavement2catwalk.wordpress.com | ||
| Vinh-Phuong | Orienteering in London: an exciting way to explore green spaces | South London Orienteers | sloweb | www.slow.org.uk | |
| Zunaira Malik | Not your average environmentalist | Action for Conservation | action4conserv | www.actionforconservation.org | |
| Andy Rolfe | Solar schools in London | Ealing Transition and Schools’ Energy Coop | ealingtransition | https://ealingtransition.org.uk/ | |
| Steve Watts | Green Wall | ||||
| Armina Daescu | Walking in London | ||||
| Ruxandra Calin | Deep diving into green life: little but impactful changes | - | ruxcalin | rux.c | |
| Jasmine Kamal-Pasha | Celebrating London's nature and wildlife through photography | jasminekpasha | jasminekpasha | www.jasminekamalpasha.com | |
| Oasis Play Stockwell | Transforming lives through play and supporting the community through lockdown | oasisplay | oasisplay.org.uk | ||
| Joyce Veheary | LendAndTend | LendAndTend | LendAndTend | www.lendandtend.com | |
| Luke Newcombe, National Park City Ranger | a mission to make Wood Green, Greener! | GrowN22 | Duke_Nuke | https://grown22.com/ | |
| London National Park City Rangers | What we can do with the power of 54 | https://www.nationalparkcity.london/rangers |
Thursday 23rd June 2020
On the third day of our 100 Voices from London National Park City we heard from people across the city on subjects including cycling, wildflowers, inclusion and communities, blue sky and night sky, edible cities, photography, parkour, litter, art and experiences during lockdown.
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| Name | Title | Organisation (if relevant) | Website | ||
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| Emily Hamilton | National Park City Foundation trustee introduction | ||||
| Ian Solomon-Kawall | LITTER LIVE VIDEO PERFORMANCE | May Project Gardens | https://www.mayproject.org | ||
| Shirley Rodrigues | Deputy Mayor for Environment and Energy | ||||
| Andy Scholes | Gipsy Hill | Friends of Gipsy Hill | OurGipsyHill | ||
| Justine Boussard & Sarah Turner | Designing London National Park City - There Project | There Project | https://www.thereproject.org | ||
| Amanda Jacobs | How to protect your local trees | amanda-jacobs-51317918 | |||
| Momtaz | Make your neighbours smile! | TheCraftCafe | The_CraftCafe | ||
| Dan Edwardes | Urban Movement | Parkour Generations | dan_edwardes | https://www.facebook.com/danedwarde | |
| Ingrina Shieh, National Park City Ranger | What If the outdoors were for EVERYONE: Diversity and inclusion in the outdoors | ||||
| Francesco Cagnola | LOT - London's Land Bank | Royal College of Art | https://www.rcaservicedesign.com/projects/lot | ||
| Andrew Simms | Rapid Transition - Lessons from Lockdown | Rapid Transition Alliance | RapidTransition | https://www.rapidtransition.org | |
| Tim Boden | The Oyster Wheel - circumnavigating London on a bike | tb_trekker | oysterwheel.wordpress.com | ||
| Sarah Cheesbrough | Wild Neighbours: Portraits of London's Magnificent Creatures | Sarah Cheesbrough Photography | www.sarahcheesbrough.com | ||
| Izzy, National Park City Ranger | lessons from lockdown | Action For Conservation | action4conserv | actionforconservation.org | |
| Khadijah | lessons from lockdown | Action For Conservation | action4conserv | https://actionforconservation.org | |
| Julie Futcher | bluesky happiness | a crowd sourced collaboration project | #BlueSkyHappiness | ||
| Cath Prisk | Making getting outdoors as aspirational as reading to your child at night... | Outdoor People | outdoorpeeps | outdoorpeopleuk | www.outdoorpeople.org.uk |
| Amanda Tuke | Are they weeds or wildflowers? | Freelance writer and blogger: nature, people, place | suburbanwilduk | www.freelancenaturewriter.com | |
| Michael Holland | My Garden is a Classroom! | Growing Understandings | pond_dipper | pond_dipper | |
| Des Garrahan | The Lockdown Days | Ramblers in London | walkngclasshero | walking class hero | www.walkingclasshero.org |
| Louise Yates | Edible Cities | Transition Town Crystal Palace | 1louyates | ||
| Abena Poku-Awuah | Embedding sustainability into outdoor events | ||||
| James Clark | Bringing communities together, turning estates green | Wilder Communities | WilderCommuniti | ||
| dani connor | How a baby squirrel inspired the world | daniconnorwild | |||
| Megan Eaves | London – A Stargazing City? | International Dark-Sky Association | megoizzy |
https://meganeaves.com/dark-skies | |
| Sean McCormack | Helping Ealing’s Owls | Ealing Wildlife Group | wildlifeealing | ealingwildlifegroup | www.ealingwildlifegroup.com |
| Donald Waugh | Pavement2Catwalk - nature | Pave2Catwalk | https://pavement2catwalk.wordpress.com" | ||
| London National Park City Rangers | What we can do with the power of 54 |
London is full of millions of people who have ideas and projects to make life better in our city. What if we shared those ideas more and inspired other people to do them too?
To celebrate the first anniversary of London becoming the world’s first National Park City next month, we are going to hold a special online event to showcase 100 people who are doing things to make our National Park City greener, healthier or wilder.
We will showcase 100 diverse voices, speaking on a wide range of topics and from every corner of our beautiful city. The stories will cover gardening, nature photography, walking, cycling, trees, climate change, parks and green spaces, green recovery, local volunteering, storytelling, arts and crafts, fungi, fitness, campaigning, parkour, skateboarding, community action....and many other creative ideas.
Join us for this online celebration filled with positivity to re-imagine what London can be. The event will be hosted by the National Park City Foundation and will include stories, videos, songs, poems and plenty of time to connect and continue the conversation.
