Three Rivers

Zoöp since November 2024

Three Rivers is a community arts organisation founded in the practice of creative care for people and places in the London Borough of Bexley that supports diverse groups to engage with arts and culture by experiencing their surroundings in new and creative ways.

Since 2021, Three Rivers has supported thousands of local people to use their everyday creativity for collective action inspired by Bexley’s unique landscapes with the aim of raising consciousness and expanding the idea of community and friendship to include the other-than-human.

This approach can be seen in projects such as Tump 39; a long-term project working with Thamesmead residents to reimagine a disused and rewilded Victorian ammunitions depot hidden on their housing estate as a new creative community space for arts and ecology, and Beneath the Pavement, The Marshes; which has brought artists, activists and ecologists together with local environmental and community groups to explore the challenges facing Bexley’s threatened marshlands.

Three Rivers is a member of Arts Council England’s Creative People and Places programme, and in 2025, it became the UK's first Zoöp.