Welcome to Guardians UK
The Hub
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Guardians Worldwide is a Community Interest Company registered in England. We are based at Grange Lane Tree Rescue Hub in the London Borough of Southwark.
Our objective is to regenerate lands, soils and native woodland to accelerate climate action. We work with land stewards throughout the UK, regenerating green and blue spaces, designing and facilitating community projects, engaging with minority groups, and delivering a variety of activities and learning opportunities.
Guardians UK
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Grange Lane Tree Rescue Hub​​​​​​
Funded by
Located on a landstrip between Dulwich Wood and Grange Lane Allotments, Grange Lane Tree Rescue Hub is a 0.8 hectare area we protect and regenerate. Leased by GWW from the Dulwich Estate, the Hub contains a shed, a hut, several picnic tables, a community space, an eco-loo and a small pond. The land supports a large tree nursery containing 1,500 native trees, which we are growing from seed or which we have rescued from nearby lands, as well as an orchard and herb garden. We are also working on the regeneration of a dumpsite known as Plot 20, where we plan to create a Soil School.
Grange Lane Tree Rescue Hub in four seasons: autumn, winter, spring and summer
Friends of the Great North Wood
Our land is located within the historic Great North Wood, which is the nearest ancestral woodland to any capital city centre in Europe, and a unique natural heritage, home to rare native species like the Jersey Tiger Moth, Wood anemone, Whitebeam and several species of bats.
Many species of special scientific interest can be found in Dulwich Woods and Sydenham Hill Woods-- the largest remaining fragment of the Great North Wood. From left to right : Common Whitebeam (Sorbus aria), Jersey Tiger Moth (Euplagia quadripunctaria) and Wood Anemone (Anemonoides nemorosa).
​There are many historic, veteran trees in the area like William's Blake Angel Oak, the Vicar's Oak, the Oak of Honour and the Guardian Oak of Beulah Heights, thought to be the oldest living oak in London. The area is also home to some of the most extraordinary old boundary trees in London, survivors of the historic woodland that once stretched from Camberwell to Croydon.
About the Great North Wood
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Community
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Guardians Tree Rescue Hub at Dulwich Wood, October 2023
Our Community work
Guardians is a community building effort. Our work is held together by to the belief that land and people are part of the same regenerative process. We work with a number of communities, including Latin American community members, Gypsy and Traveller community members, Black and Afro-Caribbean community members and African community members in London and across the UK.
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As part of the Treemoot Festival, we have also worked with Palestinian, Syrian, Jamaican, Chilean and Irish practitioners.
Funded by
Great North Wood Heritage Trail Campaign
Gypsy Heritage of the Great North Wood
Funded by Heritage Fund
African Heritage
Funded by Southwark Council
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Peck River Clean-ups
Treemoot Festival
Funded by Arts Council England
Soundwood
London and Leeds
with Leeds Conservatoire and University of Manchester
Floating Museum
with Leeds Canal Connections and University of Lancaster
Heritage Walks
The Weald Pilgrimages
Volunteering
Volunteer with us
We have volunteer days every two months where we invite members of the community, or anyone intersted, to spend a Saturday with us at the Tree Rescue Hub working on the land, learning about trees, soils, water and the ricj biodiversity of the Great North Wood.
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If you are interested, drop us a line
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