07/09/2026: The 2026 Big Butterfly Count results for Kingston University

A quick update following last month’s national Big Butterfly Count surveys at Kingston University sites.

03-06-2026: The City Nature Challenge 2026 – the results are in!

 

Thank you to everyone who took part in this year’s City Nature Challenge (CNC)

23-03-2026: Winners of the February 2026 Winter Wildlife Photo Competition at Kingston University.

 

Read all about it: The winners of the February 2026 Winter Wildlife Photographic Competition 

18-03-2026: Kingston University's 2026 RSPB Big Garden Birdwatch results

 The results are in

18-08-2025: The Kingston University Big Butterfly Count 2025 Results

20-02-2025: The RSPB Big Garden Bird Watch results for KU sites

 

12-02-2025: Winners of the January 2025 Winter Wildlife Photo Competition at Kingston University

 

Breaking news: The winners of the January 2025 Winter Wildlife Photographic Competition 

05/01/2024 - The Winner of Kingston Uni's Winter Wildlife Photo Competition!

Hello everyone, I hope you’ve had a great festive break in December and Happy New Year to you all. 

Alongside two other staff members, I had the pleasure of judging the entries for the Winter Wildlife Photo Competition (which ran at the Uni on all of our sites throughout the whole of December 2023). 

22-12-2023: Last Post of 2023

 

Play Me⬆

from the last Rhodobash of the year. A small but mighty team 😍 ...mince pies were harmed in the production of this event!

Hi all,

So while I haven't been the best at updating the blog over other social media platforms. I have been using it to ensure that some of our updated reference documents are available to folk outside of our internal web-pages :)

This year saw the adoption of the following two documents:

KU Invasive Flora Management Plan (2023)
and our Good Practice Document 9: Alternatives to invasive non-native ornamental grasses for use in Kingston University Landscaping projects (2023) 

If you've not spotted them - scan your eyes to the right, and have a look though our Kingston University Biodiversity: policies and plans menu 😃

No promises to be better at updating the blog next year - as I only want to make resolutions that I have a chance of keeping 😆! But I will try my best 😄

Til next year, I hope you all have a wonderful Yuletide and a fantastic start to 2024. 

23-05-2023: April and May catch up - Habitat days, woodland workshops and wildlife surveys

 

Ending May with a Big Balsam Bash at Elmbridge Meadows

05/03/2023 and 25/03/2023: FIT for pollinators? From Woodland management to habitat structures for invertebrates this March at Kingston Uni.

 

Happy KUBAG volunteers at two different sessions this March

01/03/2023: Orchard Afternoon at Dorich House Museum

 

Back at Dorich House Museum with the Orchard Project and KUBAG volunteers giving our fruit trees some TLC

01-02-2023: The Results of the 2023 Kingston University's RSPB Big Garden Birdwatch

 

We did it! 12 sites surveyed with 11 surveyors over the four days that we did our counts - read on for more details :)

23-01-2023: Fun and games with wildlife cameras and battling invasive plants

 It’s been a busy two weeks since we started back at Kingston University. 

26-11-2022: Conservation volunteering come rain or shine at Kingston Hill

 

Having fun on the hill bashing rhodo come rain or shine

27-10-2022: Pondering Pollinators and Ponds

The week after we were at Roehampton vale working on our pollinator beds at the back of the campus. 

15-10-2022: Scrubbing up nicely!

Some woodcraft mid October

We've had a jam packed October...

5-10-2022: Improving Penrhyn Road campus for invertibrates

 

A few new additions to the brown roofs on our Town House building in September, adding small log piles to each of our accessible brown roofs. Each one will provide a point of cover for invertebrates as well as create small pockets of shelter on the roof for plant seeds to flourish. 

23-04-2022: Event notification

Interested in growing food, gardening and getting outdoors?

Then this opportunity which was brought to our attention by one of the fantastic Green Impact teams may be for you.

See the poster for all of the details: if you click on the image it will open up fully on your screen :)

05-04-2022: Spring roundup invasives, orchards and moths oh my!

So I realised that I’ve been a bit lax on updating the blog from the end of January. So here’s a mini blog with more photos and some updates from some of our events in from late Jan to April!