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Love the Cran Brook

This is a pilot project to see if we can restore the Cran Brook as a biodiverse waterway.  The Cran Brook's source is in Newbury Park and it runs underground and then emerges in Valentines Park, just by our Forest Garden.  It then flows on and into the River Roding , Ilford's river, the third largest in London.  The Cran Brook is polluted.  We hope that if locals are reconnected with their waterways, we can build up a project to work with other groups, to make the Cran Brook healthy.

Discover Valentines Park waterways - a community walk
Saturday 31 August 2-4pm

Join us and John Rogers, a local psychogeographer, story teller and film maker.  He will lead us for a free walk in Valentines Park looking at the waterways including the Long Water, Jacob's Well, the Tanners Brook and the Cran Brook.  These waterways were important in the past and we will rediscover them.  We will be collecting your stories and knowledge too.  All ages welcome.  Meet at 2pm by the Valentines School entrance and we will end for refreshments in the Forest Garden by the Cran Brook.  This is part of the Forest Garden Festival running on Sunday 1 September 1-4pm.  There will be citizen science activities on the Cran Brook in the Autumm with the Roding River Trust and Thames 21.  Here's a link to our Festival last year that ended with a Blessing for the Cran Brook.

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