Hear about the air we share this Clean Air Day

Thursday 19 June is Clean Air Day and residents are invited to stop by our free pop-up stalls to learn about air quality across the borough. Don’t miss our free art workshops, where you can contribute to a collective tree-inspired artwork.

We’re especially proud to mark this year’s Clean Air Day with national recognition of our efforts to improve local air quality. In April 2025, we received the 'Air Quality Strategy of the Year', celebrating our innovative and community-driven approach and highlighting our ongoing commitment to a cleaner, healthier environment.

Sharing the same objective, Clean Air Day brings together communities, businesses, schools, and the health sector to improve public understanding of air pollution and its impact on health, and encourage individuals and organisations to adopt cleaner, more sustainable practices.

Visit our stalls

This year’s theme is ‘Air pollution affects your health from before your first breath until your last’. Air pollution affects each of us but there are lots of things we can do to improve our air quality. Do you want to know more about air pollution in your area?

Stop by our free pop-ups in the borough:

• Sunday 15 June, from 11am to 5pm at Richmond Cargo Bike Fair, the Old Deer Park
• Thursday 19 June, from 11am to 4pm at Clean Air Day stall on George Street, Richmond (between the flower stall and Pret) 

Free tree-inspired workshops

Join us for free, artist-led workshops exploring creative techniques that celebrate the importance of trees as the lungs of Richmond.

Participants will engage in exercises such as botanical monoprinting, watercolour explorations, and bark rubbing, crafting images inspired by dialogue and diverse materials. Each technique will be explained and demonstrated, allowing participants to test each, and understand its use to create their own interpretation of a tree.

The individual impressions created will come together in a collective artwork, to be displayed as a public installation, a shared tree-landscape shaped by many hands and perceptions.

Workshop details:

• Tuesday 24 June, at 1.30pm in Twickenham Library (ticketed)
• Tuesday 24 June, from 3.15 to 4.30pm after school drop-in at Twickenham Library (just turn up)
• Sunday 29 June, at 1 and 3pm at Old Town Hall (ticketed)

Find out more about the lungs of Richmond public art workshops.

Enjoy 50% off at Kew Gardens

Kew Gardens is supporting Clean Air Day 2025. On Thursday 19 June, cyclists receive 50% off entry to the UNESCO World Heritage Site. To claim the discount, simply show your bike helmet or a photo of yourself with your bike at the entry gates.

Find out more about half price entry for cyclists at Kew Gardens this Clean Air Day.

Improving local air quality

You can also explore cleaner, greener home heating at a free talk on Heat Pumps in Our Homes. The talk will give information on heat pumps and how they reduce emissions and energy bills.

Find out more

• Find out about air quality campaigns for everyone
• Learn about Global Action Plan's action for clean air
• Discover how we are managing air quality