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Join us for a exciting series of talks throughout Black History Month in October as we celebrate black botanists past, present and future!

Like many other organisations in the botanical, environmental, educational and heritage sectors, the SLBI has been considering its position in the light of recent anti-racism protests. We fully support the Black Lives Matter movement and want to take our share of responsibility in standing for social justice and ending racism, inequality and discrimination in all …

This summer we’re inviting members, supporters, volunteers, local families, and anyone else to take on our fun, botany-inspired challenge!

Like everyone else in the world, those of us at the SLBI suddenly had to make big changes to our lives and work in March this year, due to Covid-19. As a small, independent organisation, we were lucky to be able to be adapt quite quickly and flexibly. Our current grants have meant that we’ve …

We were just finalising our April to September programme when the COVID-19 crisis hit us all, so we haven’t actually publicised it yet. However, we thought you might like to know what events we had planned, in the hope that some of the later ones still might happen, and most of the earlier ones will …

Dear Friends and Colleagues, Greetings from the SLBI. Like others we’re currently shut down and have suspended all events until at least 12 April. However much is progressing behind the scenes, and we are grateful to: – Our staff, our administrator Nell Gatehouse, our individual giving co-ordinator Julia Minnear, our project manager Caroline Pankhurst, and …

I’m writing this working from home, in line with these difficult times of COVID-19. I hope that you’re all keeping well and managing to find a bit of nature, in a safe way, wherever you are.  You won’t be surprised to hear that the SLBI is going to have to close its doors for a …

The South London Botanical Institute (SLBI) has joined organisations around London and the world in declaring a climate emergency. The announcement was made following a meeting of the SLBI’s Board of Trustees on Thursday 6 February 2020. In line with the SLBI’s charitable objects, the organisation has always been committed to sustainable development (meeting the …

Another guest blog as we celebrate ‘Volunteers’ Week’ – a big thank you to all of our volunteers, including Charles, whose experience here has landed him a great job at Manchester airport… Hello! I’m Charles and I’ve volunteered at the SLBI for just over 2 years now – I started in my gap year before …

A guest blog from Pavlos, our Greek intern, who sadly leaves us today……. Monday the 1st of April 9:00 am, I was walking silently towards the front entrance of the South London Botanical Institute to begin my volunteer training. The institute is nothing like the modern more corporate institutes and large corporations that nowadays students …