Air Quality Brentford Continues its Support for Sparrows
Looking for volunteers to host more bird boxes in 2025
A sparrow box installed in Brentford. Picture: Air Quality Brentford
January 16, 2025
Air Quality Brentford (AQB) is continuing its efforts to boost the local sparrow population in 2025.
Last year it bought 27 bird boxes with funding kindly donated by the Co-op to give to people to use in their front gardens.
With the endangered birds in mind, they are looking to encourage more of them to nest in the boxes already installed by making the gardens greener with the planting of species such as roses and ivy which protect them from predators and provides a readily available source of insects
The group is working with Make Brentford Greener on this project.
You can see existing boxes on the front of houses on Avenue Road, Latewood Road, Brook Road South, Orchard Road, Hamilton Road, York Road, Layton Road, Mafeking Avenue, South Ealing Road and Braemar Road.
If you are interested in having a sparrow bird box on the front of your house with the view of greening your front garden email airqualitybrentford@hotmail.com.
To use the funding it has been given, the bird boxes need to be located at the front of houses/properties for public benefit. You can also choose from a plywood box or a Woodstone one. If there is sufficient interest it will order more boxes.
More about the group’s initiative with sparrow boxes can be found in the video shown below.
Air Quality Brentford (AQB) is a voluntary group of local Brentford residents helping to improve air quality and can be found on Facebook, 
@agreenerlondon.
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