Bethnal Green Nature Reserve

A cultural institute focused on ecological and community health in the heart of East London.

Billboard Commissions Open Call 2026

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Bethnal Green Nature Reserve (BGNR) invites artists, designers, writers, poets, illustrators, and creatives working across disciplines to apply for one of four micro-grants for billboard commissions to be presented throughout...

Community Ecologies

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Bethnal Green Nature Reserve (BGNR) is offering small community grants for workshops and talks that explore ecology, community, and our changing environment. Programme Focus: Climate Change & Climate Adaptation The...

Bethnal Green Ecology Garden

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The Bethnal Green Ecology Garden (formerly James Middleton House Food Hub) is a new green space rooted in collaboration, urban food growing, and ecology. Located at the corner of Middleton...

So Below

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So Below is an online graphic essay by cartoonist and journalist Sam Wallman. Exploring the idea of land ownership, Wallman melds the political with the poetic, connecting both historical and...

Of Lost & Found

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This project is a collection of stuff found within the Bethnal Green Nature Reserve site, East London, while Ellie Doney was artist in residence throughout 2017. Her interest in the...

George Chakravarthi

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George Chakravarthi has always been his own muse. In life, and professionally as an artist since the mid 1990s, Chakravarthi has been creating provocations around historical, contemporary and emerging notions...

Mobile Apothecary

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About us The Mobile Apothecary is a growing network of volunteers spanning the areas of herbalism, horticulture and the arts. Since April 2019, we have been bringing people together to...

Phytology Medicinal Garden

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Phytology is an urban physic garden established in 2014. The 30+ species of plants that we grow here are known for their historical and ongoing use in phytotherapy*, as well...

Winter volunteer dates 2025 / 2026

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Sat 21 February 2026 11.00am – 1.00pm
Sat 21 February 2026
Over the winter months, we’ll be slowing down to restore the land—and one another. During this time, we’ll pause our weekly volunteer sessions and instead host one larger session each...

Winter volunteer dates 2025 / 2026

Event
Sat 14 March 2026 11.00am – 1.00pm
Sat 14 March 2026
Over the winter months, we’ll be slowing down to restore the land—and one another. During this time, we’ll pause our weekly volunteer sessions and instead host one larger session each...

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