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Rain Garden Community Planting – Saturday 28th October
After more than a year of planning, funding and designing the Thornville Street rain garden, we are very exicted to announce a community planting event - this Saturday 28th October at 10:30am. Please join us as we plant up the newly constructed rain garden on the...
Green Conversations 2023 – Wednesdays 8pm at The Brookmill
Following our incredibly successful 'Green Conversations' last year, the latest series is due to kick off tomorow evening. Held in the upstairs in the function room at The Brookmill, we'll begin the talks on Wednesday evenings at 8pm. We're incredibly excited to be...
Blast from the past… first issues of the Update newsletter
We've dusted off the SJS archives and uncovered the very first issues of the Update newsletter from as early as 1998, the year of the The St John's Society's formation. 25 years later many of the issues the area faces are still the same: train delays, graffiti,...
Giving the ‘No Mow Zones’ a helping hand
The twentieth century saw a sharp decrease in the variety of wildflowers in the UK, leading to the threat of extinction for 87 wildflower species. Allowing wildflower meadows to flourish within urban settings brings a number of benefits, including an exceptionally...