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Your contribution is vital to us. You can be assured we will use your donations wisely to increase our beneficiaries and activities. Please help us continue to deliver for everyone.

Become a Member of the Environment Trust.

Make a donation to the Environment Trust - to support the Trust's team for the Great River Race, please go to My Donate, https://mydonate.bt.com/events/greatriverrace2012/88990

Donate while shopping! Register with Easyfundraising.org.uk at www.easyfundraising.org.uk/causes/environmenttrustrut. This is a free and efficient way to raise funds. Go to their web site for more information. Put simply, you open an account with them [free]. Then, when you want to do some online shopping, you logon to easyfundraising first and click ‘Go Shopping’ . Find you retailer [about 2500 are listed] and do your shopping. The retailer then donates a few percent to us. This will not make us millions, but every little helps. The trick is in fact to remember to logon to easyfundraising first.

Do you like to spend time outside? Why not take part in our regular practical work mornings. You can help us to maintain and improve valuable public sites and local landmarks for the benefit of the whole community. You too can help to promote and enhance the diversity of plants, insects, and aquatic life. Volunteer some time to your environment.

Historic & Built Environment

St Leonard's Air Raid Shelter, East Sheen

St Leonard's Air Raid Shelter, East Sheen entrance AIR RAID SHELTER at St Leonard's Court, Palmers Road, East Sheen, SW14
The story so far...

Hidden under the grassy lawn in front of peaceful St Leonard's Court, close to Mortlake Station, is a World War 2 air raid shelter in original condition. It was built concurrently with or very soon after the flats which were started in 1938, and accommodated 48 people, roughly half the number of flats, so survival of bombing was a matter of 50% chance for the residents!

Burton's Tomb

This Grade II* listed building is on English Heritage’s Register of Buildings at Risk. We are working with the Friends of Burton to secure funding for the restoration and maintenance of Sir Richard Burton’s mausoleum in Mortlake, so that this exceptional hero who bridged Christianity and Islam can be duly respected. The restoration will cost around £50,000, and we are delighted that English Heritage has awarded a grant of £21,800 towards this total. Funds have also come from private donors and the Heritage of London Trust.

St Helena Boathouse

St Helena Boathouse This was one of our earliest projects started soon after our foundation.

Many of the row of eleven boathouses on Richmond riverside belonged to the houses above in St. Helena Terrace. The boathouses were under-used, or used for storage or domestic purposes. We jumped at the chance to buy the 60 year lease of No 4 to prevent it being developed for non-river use and to help a number of families to share the boathouse and the delights of the river.

Vineyard Passage Burial Ground

Vinyard Passage Burial Ground The Burial Ground which is close to the centre of Richmond was declared a public open space and a garden of rest in 1964 but sadly became unkempt and prone to litter and graffiti as the years passed by. A group of residents who are Trust members joined together in 1995. Since then they have worked to restore the Burial Ground to a sanctuary of peace and beauty. Graves were cleared and weeded; walls, monuments and headstones were restored; new shrubs, trees and bulbs were planted – a wild, woodland garden has been created.

Grove Gardens Chapel

Grove Gardens Chapel in Richmond was built around 1875 from the design of Sir William Blomfield. He was Vice President of the Royal Institute of British Architects in 1886 and was awarded the Institute’s Gold medal in1891. The Chapel was built in the Revised Gothic style as the Anglican Chapel for Richmond’s cemetery. The Chapel became empty in 1976 and was Listed Grade II in 1990.

The Kilmorey Mausoleum

Volunteer Leaf Sweepers at the Kilmorey Mausoleum This splendid Egyption-style Mausoleum is a secret gem, hidden within an award winning garden behind a high brick wall beside the busy St Margarets Road in Isleworth.
It was originally erected in Brompton Cemetery and has been moved on two occasions.
The Mausoleum is the final resting place of Lord Kilmorey, born Francis Jack Needham, 2nd Earl Kilmorey (1787-1880) also known as 'Black Jack' Needham and his mistress Miss Priscilla Anne Hoste (c1823-1854) who had originally been his ward.

Click here to visit the website:
www.kilmoreymausoleum.co.uk

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