South West Maritime Academy
Wotton Road, Cromhall GL12 8AA
Tel: 01454 260 130
www.cromhallquarry.com
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The only funeral director in the UK creating a 100 acre nature reserve complete with its own chapel and reception rooms. Just 15 minutes drive from Cribbs Causeway.
A whole morning or afternoon costs about the same as a brief service at a crematorium. Burial or ashes interment. Complete burial service from £1,795.
Choosing Memorial Woodlands not only offers a beautiful farewell but also contributes to creating a lasting woodland habitat for all to enjoy.
"We can’t bring them back but when we’re among those trees they feel less far away."
Earthcott Green, Alveston BS35 3TA
Tel: 01454 414999
www.memorialwoodlands.com/
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Alveston Allotments are sited off Forty Acre Lane along a footpath, and are managed by a committee.
There are 35 individual, very productive vegetable plots, and holders are happy to discuss gardening issues and exchange knowledge.
There is a waiting list for allotments and if you would like your name to be added, please use the email link to make your request.
Forty Acre Lane, Alveston
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Filnore Allotments show what can be achieved in transforming a field into productive food plots. Find us in the field behind Thornbury Leisure Centre near the skateboard park. Click below to find out more.
Filnore Woods Community Woodland provides a diverse range of habitats for wildlife, gives people a wild place to visit, and provides opportunities for education. The woods are open 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. To find them, cross the field at the back of the Leisure Centre, the one with the skateboard park in it. The entrance is just beyond the new allotments. Click the link below to find out more.
We are a group of volunteers who came together in summer 2014 with the aim of improving Frampton Cotterell by planting bulbs and flowers around our village
Our funding comes from grants, donations and our own fund raising activities. We have also received generous gifts from local businesses and residents who have been wholly supportive of our efforts.
We are always happy to welcome new volunteers to our group. Anyone wishing to join the group can contact us via our website.
Keeping Filnore Woods attractive for people and for wildlife needs a lot of work. Brambles, thistles and nettles are trying to take over the site and the grass needs cutting at least once a year to retain and promote the wildflowers. We rely on volunteers to do this valuable work. If you would like to get involved you can join the email list by emailing below or phone Jerry Dicker.
Tel: 01454 416945
filnorewoods.blogspot.co.uk
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In 2003 Yate Town Council took over management of the park and the ‘Friends' group was formed to assist the Council to do this in the best possible way. If you would like to get involved, please click below to find out more.
Join in the fun! Help the Friends of Ridge Wood manage this much valued, wildlife-rich woodland. All are welcome - we work hard but have lots of parties!
www.ridge-wood.org.uk
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The Friends group was formed in 1987 when there was a real threat that the Common would be built on.
The Friends saved the Common, and it is now a safe haven for many species of birds, mammals and insects, and is over 200 acres in size.
Chipping Sodbury BS37 6XG
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Kingfisher Road, Chipping Sodbury BS37 6EB
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We are a small group that will welcome new members. We work at our own pace litterpicking, weeding, cutting back brambles, and pruning shrubs.
Kingfisher Road, Chipping Sodbury
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Wickwar Road, Chipping Sodbury BS37 6BQ
The RHS award winning Morton Bridge Wild-flower Meadow was only seeded in late October 2016. It has been met by an amazing amount of local interest and support. The first year annuals made a great show in 2017 and the Meadow was awarded the RHS In Bloom's Monk Trophy for Best Native Planting in the South West of England.
Sown perennials now flowering include Red Campion, Knapweed, Oxeye Daisy, Ragged-Robin and Meadow Buttercup. Also self grown plug planting which includes Teasels, Foxgloves and Meadows Cranesbill. We also have some of the best yellow rattle the RHS judges have seen.
A particular triumph for 2018 was the Cuckoo Flower. Common in the surrounding streamside walk it had never appeared in the meadow, but this year appeared in abundance. It is a favourite of the Orange tip butterfly. The meadow was conceived to encourage our own native flowers and the various pollinators (Bees, Bugs and Butterflies) that depend upon them.
Do come and see the meadow on the streamside walk opposite the Anchor Inn on the other side of Morton Bridge. The blossoms are in bloom April until end of August when we cut the meadow.
We are keen to encourage others with their own local wild-flower projects. Please see our web page and if you would like advice, to volunteer or just to be kept informed e-mail and we will reply to you.
Thornbury Community Permaculture Project, which is part of Sustainable Thornbury, invites volunteers over 16 years old to help out at developing and maintaining a new Permaculture Garden at Alexandra Way retirement home. Tools and guidance will be provided but please wear suitable clothing for gardening and the weather.
Permaculture is a design system that can be applied to gardening to incorporate more nature led planting.
We meet every Friday morning 9.30-11am.
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New House Farm, Tytherington GL12 8QB
Tel: 07790 376910
www.richardcornock.co.uk
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The Sodbury in Bloom group are a small band of volunteers who work to improve our environment, using gardening as a tool.
They are also looking for people who might be willing to keep an eye on their local patch, cutting weeds back or planting bulbs as appropriate.
If you have green fingers and fancy enhancing your local patch, please get in touch.
Tel: 01454 853736
www.mysodbury.co.uk/inbloom
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Sustainable Thornbury is a local community group, covering Thornbury and the surrounding villages.
Our aim is to promote the well-being of everyone living and working in the area, by promoting greater local self-reliance and a more cooperative and inclusive community.
Meetings are held regularly (approximately monthly) depending on current activities.
Thornbury Community garden is a place of comfort, solace and relaxation for any person to spend time in. It’s the perfect place for meet-ups, to have lunch in, to bring the kids to have a run around or to just go to take a look. The garden is usually open 7 days a week - with natural surroundings that are kept immaculate by volunteer workers.
Upper Bath Road, Thornbury BS35 2LB
www.thornburycommunitygarden.org.uk
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This is a small walled area between the stream and the footpath to the east of Gloucester Road, managed by Thornbury Orchard Group (TOG) under a volunteers agreement with South Gloucestershire Council.
The orchard contains several fruit trees including apples and a plum tree, some old, some new, plus soft fruit and a medlar tree.
Please enjoy its beauty, keep dogs on a lead and respect the fruit trees, soft fruit and wildlife. Please keep to the footpaths as we like to keep some areas wild to support biodiversity.
If you want to get more involved contact Thornbury Orchard Group by e-mail below.
The fruit will be ripe at various times in the summer and autumn. We sometimes leave surplus apples by the Orchard gate for people to take away. In August 2022 our noticeboard was erected by the gate and we use this to let people know which fruit is ripe and when.
Please do not pick if we have not said it is ripe and even than leave plenty of fruit for others. This is not a commercial orchard.
Early in the year we often thin out the fruit to stop the trees being over laden and allow fruit to mature properly without over crowding. If suitable we will leave some of this for visitors to take and cook for say apple sauce. This is not a signal that all the apples are ripe and ready to be picked it is just our normal management of the trees.
Web: www.sustainablethornbury.org/orch...
East of Gloucester Road, opposite the Anchor Pub, Thornbury
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The oldest Horticultural Society in Thornbury was established in the 1830s by a group of gentlemen of the town 'to introduce a taste of gardening amongst the cottages...'. The Society is affiliated to the RHS, and membership entitles you to free entry to the Shows and Social Evenings. For more information please click below.
Tel: 0793 4560207
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We all enjoy the award-winning floral displays that brighten up Thornbury. Imaginative floral creations welcome us as we enter the town, and hanging baskets and tubs create colourful splashes throughout the town centre.
For this we have to thank Thornbury in Bloom - a group of volunteers who raise money each year to fund the displays, and work hard to plant up the various containers.
Orchard, Wildflower Meadow, Bee Bank & so much more!
Why not join out friendly local group who maintain this small area to promote biodiversity and benefit the local community? You will meet new friends, help the community and learn more about what we do. Click the link below to find more information on our website.
The group usually meets at least twice a month: on the first Wednesday and on the third Saturday of every month to maintain the Orchard and the meadow. Times and days do vary so it is best if you e-mail us first using the link below and ask to be included on our Work Party e-mail list.
Tortworth Forest Centre is a not-for-profit Community Interest Company which aims to improve lives by reconnecting people with nature, through conservation, wellbeing programmes, outdoor events, courses and volunteering opportunities.
The Centre is based at Tortworth Arboretum, a historically and culturally rich woodland. There is huge potential to bring this unique place back to use and to share it with people who want to learn about woodlands and develop outdoor skills - so get in touch if you want to be a part of it.
Tortworth Arboretum, off Tortworth Road, Tortworth GL12 8HH
Tel: 07717 201 329
tortwortharboretum.org/
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Tortworth, Wotton under Edge GL12 8HF
www.tortworthestate.com/#lake
The warmth and exhilaration of flower rich meadows, secretive ancient woodlands and wooded grassland plateaux are all found on a visit to Wapley Bushes Local Nature Reserve to the south of Yate.
Between Cherington and Besom Lane, Yate
www.wapleybushes.info
Nympsfield, Stonehouse GL10 3TS
Tel: 01453 861541
www.woodchestermansion.org.uk/
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Between Blaisdon, Woodchester and Maismore, Chipping Sodbury BS37 8UW
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Yate Town Council hosts Yate Rocks! each year - it's a free musical festival for all the family, with dance from local clubs and academies.
There are children's games and activities, arts & crafts and community stalls offering a wide range of local products and novelties, and drinks stalls providing different alcoholic beverages alongside a variety of catering units for food and refreshments.
Kingsgate Park, Yate BS37 4EP
myyate.co.uk/yate/kingsgate-park
