Badock's Wood Conservation Work Party

Badock's Wood Conservation Work Party

Volunteer Conservation Work Party in Badock's Wood undertaking a range of conservation tasks. Takes place monthly on 2nd Saturday at 10.30

By Friends of Badock's Wood

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Saturday, May 10 · 10:30am - 12:30pm GMT+1

Location

Badock's Wood

Lakewood Road Bristol BS10 5HW United Kingdom

About this event

Friends of Badock's Wood Conservation Work Party.

Conservation tasks may include coppicing, non native plant management, pond management etc. The tasks will be different each month.

These Conservation Work Parties take place once a month on the Second Saturday of each month, meeting at 10.30 and usually last approximately 2 hours.

If you have your own loppers, secateurs, garden spades, etc and gardening gloves please bring them otherwise we will supply them.

Please wear stout shoes and suitable clothing for working in the wood or by the pond. If you bring your own tools please label them clearly with your name. If you have your own work / gardening gloves you are advised to bring them as they will fit you best.

Please do not attend if you are feeling unwell particularly if you are showing signs of Covid.

No experience of coppicing or other practical conservation work necessary you will be given instruction.

(If you wish to bring children under 16 years old, we need to be notified in advance and they must be accompanied by a parent or guardian who takes full responsibility for them.)

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Friends of Badock's Wood

The Friends of Badock’s Wood is a group of local residents and other interested people who help to keep Badock’s Wood a hidden haven for wildlife.

It is a lovely place to walk and experience the local nature of a riverside, woodland and wildflower meadows.

The work of the group has been instrumental in making Badock’s Wood a safe and welcoming place to visit. We have improved access and enhanced Badock’s Wood, in partnership with Bristol City Council, other local community groups and local schools, using grant funding and volunteers.

In 2008 Badock’s Wood was awarded Local Nature Reserve designation. This was achieved in no small part as a result of our volunteers’ efforts to both physically improve the wood and to improve opportunities to enjoy this local open space.

In 2015 as part of the celebrations of Bristol’s European Green Capital Award, the Friends organised a Green Hidden Treasures Project. we commissioned local sculptor Andy O’Neill to make wildlife sculptures and benches in the wood. As you walk around the wood you will come across these and many of these are now being reclaimed by fungi.

In 2022, as part of the Queen Elizabeth II's Platinum Jubilee Celebrations, Badock's Wood was selected to be one of just 70 ancient woodlands across the UK as part of Her Majesty's Queen's Green Canopy Project.

To commemorate this One Tree Per Child planted more trees in March 2023 and March 2024. We also commissioned sculptor Andy O'Neill to create a commemorative bench. If you wish to donate towards these projects please either contact Friends of Badock's Wood or donate through the GoFundMe page

Come and visit Badock’s Wood in North Bristol – you’ll really enjoy it!