
What can Brent Reservoir expect in 2024?
Habitat restoration and the battle to save the north marsh take centre stage in the coming year. What you need to know and how you can help.

Full drainage of reservoir begins
Concern over pollution clearance plans and fish re-stocking as reservoir drained for winter dam repairs.

Canal restoration and Silk Stream litter blitz
Volunteers fill the conservation gap with two new initiatives





Help reduce fly-tipping that ends up in the Welsh Harp
We need your photographs and updates

Barnet Labour promise biodiversity officer if elected on May 5
Local elections offer chance for change at Brent Reservoir

Flowering rush among rare plants to be reintroduced at Brent Reservoir
Many lost through decades of neglect. Help plant them on Sun April 24.


Ben Watt starts new monthly column for Caught By The River
Journal captures his journey campaigning for Brent Reservoir

Major tree works take place on east marsh
New management programme begins with removal of willow colonisation

Cool Oak founder, Ben Watt chats to Brent & Kilburn Times
Local newspaper shines a light on the launch of Cool Oak
Join a conservation day on Sun Jan 30 with Friends of the Welsh Harp
Path maintenance, vegetation clearance, woodland litter-picking for volunteers.

Canal and River Trust announces £85k winter works programme
Vegetation clearance, hydrographic survey and debris removal in January 2022
New vision promised for the Welsh Harp by all three owners
SSSI mitigation fund could kickstart a revival for the struggling reservoir

Tireless campaign culminates in two-day clean-up by Friends of the Welsh Harp
Woodlands, pathways and shoreline transformed by volunteers

Canal and River Trust commits to selective dredging of the marshland
Once considered impossible, reshaping of clogged habitats is now likely