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 

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

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

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 :)

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. 

22-02-2022: Going for gold with the Hedgehog Friendly Campus Scheme

 

Its always good to get a post out on a Palindrome and Ambigram date! - so we're using this as our day to give you a hogtastic update :)

08-01-22: Come Rain Come Shine Come Bash!

 

We were back up at Kingston Hill with this hardy bunch

20 and 21-04-2021 - Hedgerowing in Tolworth part 1

 

The TCV team getting ready to lay hedges at Tolworth Court

10-08-20: Sitting pretty – butterflies at Kingston Uni

Purple hairstreaks at Kingston Hill Campus

09-07-2020: Kingston University Biodiversity Events - the slow road back :)

I spy with my little compound eyes something beginning with...

Event reminder: Join us tomorrow (Wednesday (15th Jan) for our next talk and networking event! Penrhyn road campus

14-12-2019: Recollecting woodland crafting in November

Can us spot how many camera shy volunteers are present?

In November we saw the return of the really popular winter woodland workshop. It was very much a Christmas themed one, as Mark took the volunteers through a number of crafting skills using green wood and other natural materials. 

13-12-2019 - Rhodo bashes and other messy work at Kingston Hill :)

Rhodobashes and a day in the pond at Kingston Hill.