Press & Media
Roots and Shoots receives coverage in national and local newspapers with some television and radio items.
BBC National News: With Hilary Benn, Sec of State for DEFRA, announcing investment in bee research, April 2009.
Robert Elms show on BBC Radio London - Science Week interview with David Perkins.
An interview for "Costing the Earth", BBC Radio 4, with Prof. Ted Benton (author of New Naturalist "Bumblebees")
The BBC's Springwatch season: the first CBeebies Springwatch was based at Roots and Shoots with Jackson the pink dinosaur....
LBC Radio news - Apple Day news
A feature filmed with Kate Humble for the main Springwatch programme.
An interview with Walnut Tree Walk children at the SEM unit of Kings College during "Lambeth's Living Waters" for BBC Radio's "The Big Toe Radio Show".
Channel 4's Richard and Judy Show ("Cactus Television") feature on beekeeping and bee disease, with a second feature using video-microscope equipment.
BBC News feature on beekeeping in the city. ITN News item on the launch of the "Action Earth" Campaign with Environment Agency and CSV, and children of Walnut Tree Walk Primary.
A BBC Breakfast News piece on beekeeping in the city.
Newspapers, Magazines and Books
Roots and Shoots has also been covered in a number of magazines and newspapers. Here are links to some of them. Click on the titles below to read the full story:EASYJET TRAVELLER July 2009
The Urban Buzz, page 62 (register via http://www.ink-live.com/emagazines/easyjet-inflight)
London bees are causing a hive of activity, thanks to the efforts of eco-warrior beekeepers reports Jeroen Bergmans
BREAKTIME MAGAZINE Summer 2009
Summer at Roots and Shoots
Visitors to the half acre wildlife garden at Roots and Shoots in Lambeth could be forgiven for thinking they’ve dropped off to sleep and woken up in the heart of the country. Pages 25 and 26
BD 11 July 2008
Architect Paul Notley digs in at Roots & Shoots
Paul Notley’s sustainable design for Roots & Shoots, a south London horticulture charity, expresses handsome architectural values reports Tony Fretton
THE HORTICULTURIST Winter 2008
From young roots and shoots
Linda Phillips reports on how the charity is bringing on a new generation of gardeners
Please contact Lindsay (see below) for a copy
THIRD SECTOR 25 July 2007
From young shoots...
Lambeth in south London is one of the most socially deprived boroughs of the UK, but an unlikely horticulture project is sowing seeds of sufficiency for teenagers, writes Nathalie Thomas
ESF NEWS July 2007
HRH The Prince of Wales has officially opened a new eco-centre at Roots and Shoots, the Lambeth environmental and educational charity, which celebrates its 25th anniversary this year.
HORTICULTURE WEEK 21 June 2007
Eco-building gets the royal seal of approval
COUNTRY HOMES & INTERIORS July 2007
Support an urban wildlife garden and community gardens at Roots and Shoots in London. Please contact us for a copy
HORTUS 78, Summer 2006
Diana Ross interviews Linda Phillips and David Perkins of Roots & Shoots
Please contact us for a copy
THE GUARDIAN 6 June 2006
Reap what you sow
Our gardens may be blooming now, but where will the next generation of green fingers come from asks Lindsay Swan
ESF NEWS, March/April 2006
The right ‘roots’ to work
The DWP Minister with responsibility for ESF James Plaskitt has praised an ESF project that improves the employability of disadvantaged young people with learning, health and social problems
TIME OUT 8 March 2006
Grass roots
David Perkins, education and resources manager for Roots & Shoots community garden in Lambeth, is in Paradise Corner when I arrive, busy digging a hole reports David Jenkins.
THE TIMES 4 June 2005
Here's the buzz
A meadow full of bees in the heart of London? Anne Gatti can’t believe her eyes — or ears
SUNDAY TIMES 5 September 2004
Nursery lessons
A wildlife garden in south London is nurturing the trainee horticulturalists as much as the plants, says Caroline Donald
THE TIMES 19 July 2003
There's a real buzz about the place
Carolyn Fry meets the new generation of beekeepers
BOOKS
The Wildlife Garden appears in The Common Ground Book of Orchards: Conservation, Culture and Community, 2000, and in "London Gardens: A Seasonal Guide" by Lorna Parker (1st edition 2001, revised edition, Watling Street Publishing 2004).
Media Enquiries
We welcome enquiries from the media; to arrange on-site filming, interviews or to obtain high-resolution photographs, please contact Lindsay Swan on 07961 181982; lindsay@lindsayswan.co.uk or telephone us on 020 7587 1131