Conservation Foundation News

Doing the (new) Lambeth Walk - 14th May 2012

Lambeth schoolchildren ‘walk’ jubilee elms to Lambeth Palace

Big News. A few updates from Think Big projects - 9th May 2012

A few updates from Think Big projects

May tool giveaways in Surrey and Oxfordshire - 7th May 2012

Tools Shed distributions in Surrey and Oxfordshire

Gardening Against The Odds Awards - the film - 30th March 2012

Watch the film of the presentation at Syon

Road to Rio report - 29th March 2012

Reactions to the 1992 Earth Summit

Lost in London Magazine - 29th March 2012

Spring issue out now with Ulmus londonium feature

Discover a spring secret - 28th March 2012

Find out how you can help with Ulmus londinium

April Tool Giveaway Days in London - 27th March 2012

Garden tools for schools and community groups

Elms find summer homes - 7th March 2012

Last growing season for saplings before they head out into the capital

Rainforest award helps ethnobotany research in India - 1st March 2012

The latest award winner published their book

Pirates, Rock Choirs, Puppets and Bread - 3rd February 2012

A few updates from some of the latest Think Big projects

Elm plantings underway along canals and riversides - 17th January 2012

Great British Elm Experiment saplings are being planted to celebrate the elms use in waterway infrastructure

Tool giveaway at Eden for budding gardeners - 7th January 2012

Budding gardeners, young and old, are being given the chance to win sets of special tools as part of Tools Shed

Introducing the winners of Gardening Against The Odds - 18th December 2011

Awards in memory of Elspeth Thompson

Great opportunity to work on a leading CSR programme - 17th December 2011

We are looking for an experienced programme manager to work full-time in our offices in South Kensington

Do you live in a place with ELM in its name? - 30th October 2011

We have special elms to give away in 2012

Favourite woodland walks - 5th October 2011

David Shreeve and other well-known forest lovers on where to walk in autumn

Elspeth Thompson's bench - 2nd September 2011

Friends have placed a bench in Brockwell Park

Elms offered as part of Jubilee legacy - 23rd August 2011

SITA Trust's QEII Fields Challenge invites applicants to plant an elm

Tool giveaway at High Down Prison - 20th July 2011

Tools Shed helps groups get growing over the summer

Wanted: Young People with Big Ideas - 19th July 2011

O2 Think Big launches two videos to help get young people involved in community projects

Lambeth Council collects tools for Tools Shed - 12th July 2011

Lambeth is the only UK local authority recycling garden hand tools for Tools Shed

Calling all elm enthusiasts - 11th July 2011

Please go White-letter Hairstreak butterfly spotting now

Gardening Against The Odds winner opens his garden to the public - 27th June 2011

Read how one success lead to another for award winner Andrew Barnett

Gardening Against The Odds - 23rd June 2011

The 2011 awards are launched

Tools Shed arrives at Eden - 28th May 2011

The Conservation Foundation teams up with Eden and Dartmoor Prison

Volunteers go potty over elms in London - 13th May 2011

Ulmus Londinium planting initiative kicked off with 750 elms potted

The Think Big Bus gets on the road - 13th May 2011

Olivia catches the bus

Thousands of Garden Centre Group tools for Tools Shed - 3rd May 2011

Tools off to prisons to be spruced up

Elm Trees return to Bolsover Street - 29th March 2011

Tree planting on historic site

Wessex Water helps tawny owls to nest - 28th March 2011

Cam Valley Wildlife Group receives £400 award

Wandsworth Tool Giveaway - 28th March 2011

Hundred of tools distributed

Gardening Against The Odds Awards - 24th March 2011

Ten gardeners with personal experience of the healing powers of gardens and gardening have been honoured for their efforts to create beauty and solace against the odds.

Oxfordshire Tools Shed point set up - 22nd March 2011

Drop unwanted tools at Charlton Park Garden Centre

Londoners - please look out for a special sign of spring - 17th March 2011

Spot the blossom and log the elms on the NHM interactive map

The Conservation Foundation joins Giveacar - 28th February 2011

Now you can donate your scrap car to The Conservation Foundation

Olivia in Africa - 24th February 2011

Olivia in Africa

Garden Centre Group Tool Amnesty on now - 21st January 2011

119 garden centres in England and Wales are collecting for Tools Shed in February

New chairman for The Conservation Foundation - 4th January 2011

Matthew Bennett and two new directors join the Board

James Coleman arrives at the Foundation - 9th December 2010

Sussex University post-graduate joins our team

Ulmus Londinium - 15th November 2010

Watch David Shreeve tell the London elm story on Chiswick TV

Green Corners at the Garden Museum - 5th November 2010

London’s Green Corners Awards go on show

David Shreeve meets the Pope - 13th October 2010

Conservation Foundation Director was presented at Holyroodhouse

Gardening Against The Odds Awards - 13th October 2010

Read about the inspiring winner, runners up and Awards of Merit

Send a difference instead of a Christmas card - 13th October 2010

Turn your Christmas card into an elm at See The Difference

Autumn comes to London's Green Corners - 11th October 2010

The first autumn winners in London’s Green Corners Awards have been announced with prizes going to gardeners in Enfield, Twickenham, Sydenham and West Norwood.

O2's Think Big backed website bridges generational divide - 7th October 2010

'Why do' campaign helps adults 'get' young people

High Down Prison's first Tools Shed giveaway - 3rd October 2010

Almost 30 schools and community groups pick up free tools

Green and Gorgeous - 1st October 2010

The latest Green Corners Awards winners announced

Stephen Fry and Alastair Campbell tweet our elms - 30th September 2010

Elm enthusiasts flock to See The Difference

Kew Tools for Tools Shed - 23rd September 2010

Collecting tools from the Royal Botanic Gardens

The Foundation's Katie Hyson swims the Hellespont - 2nd September 2010

And runs the length of Hadrian's Wall

Announcing July's Green Corners winners - 26th August 2010

Lambeth and Islington were July's greenest boroughs

Wessex Watermark Award for Midsomer Norton - 26th July 2010

Midsomer Norton Tawny Owl project receives £400 award

Ten Year Check Up for Millennium Yews - 26th July 2010

Did you plant one of the Foundation's yew trees?

Free garden tools - 22nd July 2010

Does your school of community garden need tools?

Flourishing Elms - 9th July 2010

David Shreeve visits the Foundation's first chairman and his fine elm trees

Eleven Green Corners win a June award - 8th July 2010

Flaming June brings on a bumper crop of winners

It's Your Community winner on Britain's Got Talent - 2nd June 2010

A3 reached the semi finals

Foundation helps save veteran yew - 31st May 2010

Angmering Church yew is saved

Announcing the first Green Corners winners - 19th May 2010

Four very different green corners win an award for April

Notcutts Garden Centres backs Tools Shed - 11th May 2010

'Rake out your old tools' campaign collects tools at centres around the country this month

Tools Shed collection at Muswell Hill garden - 6th May 2010

Artists Susan Bennett and Earl Hyde are collecting tools at their summer charity garden openings

Chelsea show garden is being built with recycled tools - 29th April 2010

Eden Project’s Places of Change garden uses Tools Shed tools

Recycle tools at Open Gardens Squares Weekend - 29th April 2010

Broken and unwanted tools can be recycled at any Capital Gardens centre

The Conservation Foundation seeks a new Chair - 23rd March 2010

An exciting time to join the Foundation's Board

Somewhere over the rainbow - 23rd March 2010

George Stephenson's Rocket will steam through Kensington Gardens

Parliamentary support for the elms - 17th March 2010

MPs are signing up to an Early Day Motion in support of The Great British Elm Experiment

Tools Amnesty - 4th February 2010

In February 119 Garden Centre outlets collected for Tools Shed

Wessex Watermark winner - 4th February 2010

Watermark award for Blandford Forum's parish centre

The Great British Elm Experiment - 2nd February 2010

Our new national elm planting campaign

Announcing the latest Young Scientists for Rainforests award winner - 15th January 2010

Winner has documented plants of medicinal value in Kenya’s only rainforest

Celebrating 21 years at the RGS - 17th December 2009

The It's Your Community exhibition marked our 21st anniversary

Tools Shed tool giveaway - 1st December 2009

Over 70 schools and community gardens came to the Tools Shed garden tool giveaway

Moorlands help fight effects of climate change -

The ‘MoorLife’ project aims to restore more than 2,000 acres of Peak District and South Pennine moorland.