We were honoured to present at the London Tree Ring Launch event in Farringdon, London on 15th October 2026. What a wonderful collection of both audience and presenters as we all shared stories of how the London Tree Ring project is coming together. From the North of London to the East, South and West this amazing team are pulling together expertise, experience, knowledge and resource to plant trees and help local communities and Councils educate and be educated on our environment and conservation matters. Having facilitated a meeting and visit on Hatton Fields in the summer, Councillor Shaheen offered great advice on how we can incorporate young care leavers and other young people in the proposal to plant trees to infill some of our hedges on Hatton Fields as well as extend a tree copse near the river in the next few months. This will be a great start on this important site considered as highly important by CPRE London.  We are very excited to start this partnership this year and look forwarded to updating all our followers on opportunities to be involved in the project. This project sits alongside our plans to continue to restore the meadow, continue our

The Upper Duke of Northumberland River feeds into the River Crane. Hatton Fields sits directly north of a stretch of this river considered to be a SINC – site of Metropolitan River. The entire site sits within the Crane valley and we are proud to be partnered with the Crane Valley Partnership who bring together all the community groups that do amazing work across the catchment. This year we have started to measure the river water quality. This is part of our general strategy to monitor the value of Hatton Fields (flora and fauna habitat monitoring takes place; iNaturalist project continues). We can also measure any impact of our enhancements as well as monitor the impact of any future development on the overall site. We have joined Earthwatch Europe to test the water on a monthly basis. We submit our data to them and hold our own records as well. We measure nitrate and phosphate levels as well as making visual records of what we can see on the day. This is reported to Earthwatch Europe. In addition, we are separately recording the ph level of the water and its temperature. Nitrate levels in river water indicate the presence of