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The ThamesWatch project began in 2008. It is important for children to get out and about to explore the vast array of wildlife that the Thames has to offer so they can discover for themselves the value of looking after our environment for future generations.  
Stephen Worsfold director of ThamesWatch explains, “Our rivers are the veins and arteries that keep our environment healthy but we largely ignore them. ThamesWatch aims to showcase to the next generation, the exciting and the tranquil aspects of the world along our beautiful waterways.”

www.riverthames.co.uk is a comprehensive guide to everything related to the River Thames from sea to source, Southend-London-Oxford. As well as offering viewers a wide variety of leisure activities and services from boat trips to hotels and restaurants, it also provides a vast history of the Thames and information on particular Thames Towns which is very useful for school projects. The website is now celebrating its 10th year as an online company and has been running the ThamesWatch campaign specifically aimed at children for the last 2 years with great success.

In the best tradition of suffragism, the RSPB was formed by a group of Victorian women who swore not to wear bird feathers as decoration on their clothes and hats and vowed to protect birds from “wanton” destruction.

More than a century on, the RSPB is still fighting to protect birds. On top of this, they, supported by more than a million members, also tackle wanton destruction, climate change and development of the whole environment. Birds can’t exist in isolation, so by conserving our planet, we conserve them too.

Our work includes saving London’s vanishing house sparrows, preserving and enhancing unique habitats across the UK, conserving tropical rainforests in Sumatra and Africa, and breeding vultures across Asia to save them from extinction.

The threats to the world’s birds are numerous and complex. A stroll along a river brings people and nature together, so what better way to explore these threats than ThamesWatch?

Buglife – The Invertebrate Conservation Trust is the only organisation in the UK conserving all invertebrates.  We work to conserve the UK’s smallest and some of its rarest animals from bees to beetles, and spiders to snails.  Today bugs are under threat as never before, and so Buglife is working to secure a diverse and wildlife-rich planet for future generations.  Our aim is to halt the extinction of invertebrate species and to achieve sustainable populations of invertebrates.

We are working hard to achieve this through: practical conservation projects, raising awareness about invertebrates, development of legislation and policy that will ensure the conservation of invertebrates and supporting invertebrate conservation initiatives globally. For more information on our work go to www.buglife.org.uk

Previous Prize Donors
The following have kindly donated prizes for the ThamesWatch winners.
The Pirate Castle

Thames River Services
London Duck Tours
London Waterbus Company
J.G.F Passenger Boats
Salters Steamers
River & Rowing Museum