Thames Festival Trust - Last Chance: Thames Lens 📷 An End Of Year Note From Our Director 🎉

 

Director Adrian Evans CVO at the Art Explora Event, Paris | Photo: Matthieu Joffres Art Explora A Message from our Director on 2025 2025 was an extraordinary year for Thames Festival Trust, connecting young people and communities to their local rivers, and each other, through our arts, heritage and education programmes. Find out more and watch an episode from this years' docu-series here! We achieved many milestones this year and hosted the 28th Totally Thames festival in September! We completed our inaugural ‘Lost & Found’ heritage traineeship programme, which we hope will develop further in 2026 and onwards, and  were fortunate to collaborate on our River of Hope schools project with partners in Dorset, Newham, Norfolk & Tees Valley and with France and Ethiopia too.  To cap it all off, we were delighted to win the prestigious Art Explora European Award for our very exciting 2026 project 'Turning The Tide' with artist Catherine Yass. Watch out for further details in the New Year! In 2025, we worked with 11,000 students and reached an audience of 453,500 people in-person and online. We hope you will join us in making 2026 even better! Wishing you and your loved ones Season’s Greetings as the year draws to a close.   Adrian Evans CVO Director Watch our 2025 Docu-series Photos left to right Rekindling by Compagnie Carabosse | Photo: Milo Robinson Lighting up the Lea at Cody Dock | Photo: Milo Robinson Mudlarking Exhibition in Roman Amphitheatre | Photo: Milo Robinson Thames Lens Launch 2025 | Photo: Milo Robinson Tideway Blackfriars Public Realm Opening 2025 | Photo: Milo Robinson Thames Lens Winner | First of Many Sunsets, Subhajit Ghosh Deadline Soon: Thames Lens 2026 Photography Competition In collaboration with Port of London Authority, we are thrilled to announce Thames Lens 2026 is now open for entries! Thames Lens encourages photographers to get out and explore the River Thames with their creative lens. We have six distinct categories, each of which speaks to a different facet of the river and all offer fantastic potential for amazing photography. This year we have also launched a new video category in collaboration with the Illuminated River Foundation.  Winners and runners-ups will be exhibited in central London. Prizes include vouchers for photography kit, a year’s membership to the Photographer Gallery, Hop-on Hop-off tickets courtesy of Uber Boat by Thames Clippers, and much more. Under 30? Tick the box in the submission form and be in with the chance to win a special extra prize. The competition closes to entries on 11.59pm Friday 9 January 2026. The winners will be chosen by a panel comprised of representatives from Thames Festival Trust and Port of London Authority.  Submit your entries Quick links We are a registered charity, donate to help us continue our work.