Friends of Ray Mill Island is community led, part of Wild Maidenhead’s Wilder Parks project. Creating a link between residents, local charities and the Council. Taking steps together to enrich this natural haven to promote greater biodiversity; by investing time, resources to enable wildlife, guests and future generations to thrive.’

If you would like to support through volunteering your skills ( admin, gardening or DIY ) please email us raymillisland@gmail.com and we will add you to our volunteer mail list or you may simply just want to know what is going on. you can be We along with many others have enjoyed many years of walks and gathering on Ray Mill Island. We have witnessed a huge surge in people seeking the simple pleasures of nature and his tiny island is starting to look tired and worn! Our council is financially challenged and can only maintain the parks present state. We have talked with enough locals to realise we are not the only ones wanting to invest time and energy into loving this unique riverside place.

We are looking to raise funds so we can give this island the best possible chance of thriving through the years.

Your donations will help our various projects and if you can give time or have a community volunteer group that would enjoy participating in any of these projects, that would be great too!

a. Designing nature trails

b. Creating new diverse wild flower beds

c. Maintaining and/or planting trees

d. Adding new wildlife boxes or homes

e. Restoration of existing benches and picnic tables

f. A toilet block make-over with a beautiful mural