T100 Goes Wild was the 10th annual T100 Festival, a celebration of growing and going wild across Thurrock and beyond.
Our 2024 series of FREE walks and events along the Thames Estuary invited you to get outdoors, be creative, and explore the natural environment. From seeds sown ten years ago, T100 is flourishing. With a year-round programme of free activities and our annual summer festival, we’re marking our growth, discovering the local area, and setting down roots for the future.
2024’s festival launched on 25 May at High House Production Park with a family-friendly garden party full of workshops, performances, tours, and more. Following this, we embarked on twenty-two walks across Thurrock and further afield to discover our unique landscape and natural wildlife. From Canvey Wick to Grays, South Ockendon to Hackney, Fobbing to Rainham Marshes, we explored nature, stories of local communities and more.
The festival culminated on Saturday 22 June with a flag parade through Grays town centre into the second edition of the Afro Food Fest! community members were invited to come and wave a flag in this memorable event marking 10 years of local creativity and culture.
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Find out all about T100, how it came about and all the amazing things we’ve done so far, in our T100 Exhibition here.
Find the detailed walk route maps from 2024 on the individual walk pages below.
Click on the walk title or image below to learn more about the individual walks and routes and look back at imagery from 2024.
We hosted a Garden Party at High House Production Park to launch this year’s T100 Goes Wild festival and wrap up Arts Outburst’s Get Creative May.
A day of walking and activities in Canvey Wick, ‘England’s Rainforest’, upriver near Southend. Included a wellbeing walk and storytelling as well as a bug hunt and craft session making mandalas with Bug Life.
We are delighted to share that T100 Young Ambassadors, children and young people from across Thurrock, took the lead to plan private walk events for their community members in 2024.
Thurrock Local History Society members guided T100 walkers on a tour of the former and current green spaces in Grays.
Walkers could join one of two walks to explore this Belhus Estate, a fantastic Thurrock site packed full of flora, fauna and wildlife.
In collaboration with the wider Thurrock’s first Pride event, being overseen by Thurrock LGBTQ+ Community Network and Arts Outburst, the walk from Purfleet-on-Thames Train Station took us along the Thames past Thurrock’s graffiti wall.
A walk along the Hackney Buzzline, an ecological pollinator corridor being created in East London. The walk took us through four parks – all local sites of importance for nature conservation – and three social housing estates.
This event commemorated the 1381 Peasants’ Revolt’s links to Fobbing, with two walks. This was also part of the Essex Book Festival, organised in partnership with T100 Festival.
A creative walk-through of RSPB Rainham Marshes with ornithological investigator J D Swann. The group mapped the reserve through drawing and observation.
T100 is 10! Everybody was invited to celebrate with us as we paraded through Grays town centre into the second edition of the Afro Food Fest.
