but also warns of the dangers
of swimming. The Trust work
with around 18,000
schoolchildren a year, taking
them on to the foreshore at
ten sites in London and
helping them learn about
geography, wildlife and
history. ’You’d be amazed,’
he says, ‘at the number of
children who live in London
yet never go to the Thames
. . . or who come and see the
Thames at, say, Docklands