Windsor River Watch -UK

17/10/2026

. Is a lovely story about The River Trent, documenting its journey and value from

27/09/2026

💙🐟🐠🩵

15/09/2026

The Maidenhead to Teddington Catchment Partnership joining other voluntary agreements and charters to give the River Thames support and autonomy

Environmental charity Thames21 and its partners have launched the Maidenhead to Teddington Catchment Action Plan 2026–2031 - a collaborative plan setting out an ambitious vision to restore the Thames and its tributaries between Maidenhead and Teddington.

Developed through the Catchment Based Approach (CaBA), the plan identifies key environmental challenges facing the catchment and sets out a framework with practical interventions to address these issues over the next five years.

The plan focuses on four strategic priorities:

🐟 Biodiversity and habitat – To increase the quality and biodiversity value of blue spaces across the catchment
🌦️ Climate resilience – To increase the catchment’s resilience to drought and flooding, ensuring there is enough water to support the needs of the environment and future communities
🤝 Community involvement– To raise awareness of key issues, increase access to rivers and wetlands and transfer knowledge to upskill and empower local communities to advocate for their local environment
💧Water quality – To improve river health by identifying and addressing sources of pollution across the catchment.

Please read full story by clicking link here: https://www.thames21.org.uk/2026/09/five-year-action-plan-launched-to-improve-the-river-thames-and-its-tributaries-from-maidenhead-to-teddington/

15/09/2026

At last nights regular meeting we heard a catch up about recent activities.
Attending The River Summit in Henley, RiverFly and Water Quality test updates and about interest in our education programme.

We also learnt more about b a proposed River charter for the Thames, if you’d also like to know more head to www. thamescarta.org

04/09/2026

With the lack of run off from agriculture and reduced overflow of sewage & road run off the clarity this year has been outstanding. More and more evidence to support the switching our household cleaning products and practices does make a difference. Reducing our plastic waste & reusing and repurposing everything we can, does make a difference to our water ways. So many little ways we can protect and nurture in nature and nature really is trying it’s hardest to support our life.

26/08/2026

09/08/2026

It was time for our August this morning.

With consideration for the inverts health due to the current ambient temperature being in the mid 20s already by 10am! we only sorted our sample by 30 mins but found a great array of species in our sample. 🪱🦐🐟🪳

Today’s score was 11, the healthiest it’s been in a very long time👏🏻

04/08/2026

Last night we joined for the first of their 2 waterways surveys for Bat Conservation Trust, along The Thames from Windsor Riverside Station to Home Park.

Being so warm, It was generally a quiet survey night, but we were treated to a spectacular flurry of feeding activity as the survey drew to it’s finally on the Home Park boundary.

23/07/2026

On 21st July 2026, the second day of Andy Burnham’s premiership, four members of Windsor RiverWatch travelled to London to support Surfers Against Sewage hand in their Recreational Water Open Letter to DEFRA. Joined by members from , Paddle UK and others local water users, we feel it’s important for our environment, its biodiversity and ALL water users to have, as a right, unpolluted open waters. These waters are not a litter bin for our waste, but a precious resource for all of us and future generations - please act NOW Andy.