Friends of Crossness membership scheme
Last reviewed:Our scheme enables members to access the reserve's wildlife protected area.
This protected area has a bird hide, a wader scrape, an artificial bat habitat, and a sand martin wall providing ideal wildlife watching opportunities.
See restricted areas
The area has several open water bodies including a:
- deep water lagoon which attracts large numbers of wildfowl.
- wet meadow used by waders in winter.
- network of ditches that support water voles - one of the UK's fastest declining mammals.
View wildlife from our boardwalk
Our scheme also offers an opportunity to view wildlife from our boardwalk, which weaves through a large reedbed used by various warbler species.
Breeding barn owls can also be seen leaving the nest box at sunset within this area.
Participate in special events and voluntary schemes
A pond-dipping platform and mini-beast area enables us to provide education opportunities for local primary schools that target the science curriculum.
Membership will also offer you the chance to attend special events, help in the practical conservation management of the reserve through wildlife monitoring and volunteer task days, and receive newsletters and regular information on wildlife sightings.
Previous newsletters are available to download below.
Events include birdsong identification workshops, bat walks, moth trapping evenings, bird ringing demonstrations and dragonfly and butterfly walks.
Become a member
Please complete our application pack, and return it to:
Karen Sutton
Crossness Nature Reserve Manager
Thames Water
Crossness Nature Reserve
Crossness Sewage Treatment Works
Belvedere Road
Abbey Wood
London
SE2 9AQ
Membership application pack
Friends of Crossness - newsletters
- Newsletter - Issue 31 (3.49MB)
- Newsletter - Issue 30 (4.29MB)
- Newsletter - Issue 29 (3.96MB)
- Newsletter - Issue 28 (4.05MB)
- Newsletter - Issue 27 (10.88MB)
- Newsletter - Issue 26 (5.08MB)
- Newsletter - Issue 25 (1.63MB)
- Newsletter - Issue 24 (1.16MB)
- Newsletter - Issue 23 (1.43MB)
- Newsletter - Issue 22 (1.41MB)
- Newsletter - Issue 21 (1.26MB)
- Newsletter - Issue 20 (1.54MB)
- Newsletter - Issue 19 (2.83MB)
- Newsletter - Issue 18 (1.10MB)
- Newsletter - Issue 17 (1.66MB)
- Newsletter - Issue 16 - Bird report (0.60MB)
- Newsletter - Issue 16 (0.82MB)
- Newsletter - Issue 15 (0.56MB)
- Newsletter - Issue 14 (2.87MB)
- Newsletter - Issue 13 (0.82MB)
- Newsletter - Issue 12 (0.47MB)
- Newsletter - Issue 11 (0.36MB)
- Newsletter - Issue 10 (2.28MB)
- Newsletter - Issue 9 (1.53MB)
- Newsletter - Issue 8 (1.36MB)