Support Us

Maintaining a balance with nature in an urban environment, engaging the community and providing education opportunities is an ongoing challenge.

It costs around £300,000 each year for our charity to look after the nature conservation for all our sites, including all the community engagement, events and educational activities that we provide.

These valuable green and open spaces are shared by thousands of visitors each year, many looking to find some peace in our increasingly busy city, and a wealth of animals and plants. This includes an internationally rare habitat – lowland acid grassland – plus 4,000 trees that are doing their best to absorb particulate matter and carbon dioxide.

Although part of our funding is covered by the Council, it is only through the generosity of our Friends and supporters that we are able to sustain this work and offer such a wide range of events and activities. These include increasing opportunities for those with special needs, promoting ideas for lifelong learning, expanding our horticultural activities and providing vital species monitoring in our conservation work.

Make a donation

Every donation, no matter how small or large, helps our work. Every penny raised is used to directly support our nature conservation, community engagement and lifelong learning aims today and in the future. Please remember that as a charity, any donation is eligible for gift aid which can add 25% to your donation’s value. Click here to donate.

Leave a Gift in Your Will

By leaving a gift to Barnes Common in your will, you can make a lasting, meaningful contribution to our community, enabling us to continue to protect and conserve our open spaces for everyone, now and in the future. Find out more about leaving us a gift in your will here.

Become a Friend

Joining Barnes Common as a Friend helps us continue to carry out our work in the community, nature conservation across Barnes Common and Leg o’ Mutton Local Nature Reserves and other local green spaces, as well as wellbeing, community engagement, community growing and a growing lifelong learning program. Friends belonging to our Keystone Friends scheme, introduced in 2022 and named after keystone species, which play integral and sometimes crucial roles in the functioning and health of the ecosystems in which they exist, donate £50 a year or more. As a Barnes Common Keystone Friend, your contribution will help preserve our green spaces for all its inhabitants today and in the future. Click here to become our Friend.

Volunteer

If you would like to help us not only safeguard our wildlife but also continue providing enjoyment and inspiration for the users of our precious open spaces, we would love to hear from you. Volunteering with us is a great way to learn new skills, meet like-minded people and help us deliver our conservation, community and education engagement projects. Click here to find our current volunteer vacancies.

Support Us

Maintaining a balance with nature in an urban environment, engaging the community and providing education opportunities is an ongoing challenge.

It costs around £300,000 each year for our charity to look after the nature conservation for all our sites, including all the community engagement, events and educational activities that we provide.

These valuable green and open spaces are shared by thousands of visitors each year, many looking to find some peace in our increasingly busy city, and a wealth of animals and plants. This includes an internationally rare habitat – lowland acid grassland – plus 4,000 trees that are doing their best to absorb particulate matter and carbon dioxide.

Although part of our funding is covered by the Council, it is only through the generosity of our Friends and supporters that we are able to sustain this work and offer such a wide range of events and activities. These include increasing opportunities for those with special needs, promoting ideas for lifelong learning, expanding our horticultural activities and providing vital species monitoring in our conservation work.

Make a donation

Every donation, no matter how small or large, helps our work. Every penny raised is used to directly support our nature conservation, community engagement and lifelong learning aims today and in the future. Please remember that as a charity, any donation is eligible for gift aid which can add 25% to your donation’s value. Click here to donate.

Leave a Gift in Your Will

By leaving a gift to Barnes Common in your will, you can make a lasting, meaningful contribution to our community, enabling us to continue to protect and conserve our open spaces for everyone, now and in the future. Find out more about leaving us a gift in your will here.

Become a Friend

Joining Barnes Common as a Friend helps us continue to carry out our work in the community, nature conservation across Barnes Common and Leg o’ Mutton Local Nature Reserves and other local green spaces, as well as wellbeing, community engagement, community growing and a growing lifelong learning program. Friends belonging to our Keystone Friends scheme, introduced in 2022 and named after keystone species, which play integral and sometimes crucial roles in the functioning and health of the ecosystems in which they exist, donate £50 a year or more. As a Barnes Common Keystone Friend, your contribution will help preserve our green spaces for all its inhabitants today and in the future. Click here to become our Friend.

Volunteer

If you would like to help us not only safeguard our wildlife but also continue providing enjoyment and inspiration for the users of our precious open spaces, we would love to hear from you. Volunteering with us is a great way to learn new skills, meet like-minded people and help us deliver our conservation, community and education engagement projects. Click here to find our current volunteer vacancies.

Make a Donation

Become a Friend

Corporate Volunteering

Leave a gift to the community in your will!