Timeline

RHS ‘It’s your Neighbourhood’

Judged OUTSTANDING for the ninth year running

Monk Trophy – best use of native plants

RHS ‘It’s your Neighbourhood’

Judged OUTSTANDING for the eighth year running

RHS ‘It’s your Neighbourhood’

Judged OUTSTANDING for the seventh year running

RHS ‘It’s your Neighbourhood’

Judged OUTSTANDING for the sixth year running

Anon donates mechanical hayrake

Brackenwood Garden Centre donates expensive mower

RHS ‘It’s your Neighbourhood’

Judged OUTSTANDING for the fifth year running

Monk Trophy – best use of native plants

RHS ‘It’s your Neighbourhood’

Judged OUTSTANDING for the forth year running

Covid suspends management work

RHS ‘It’s your Neighbourhood’

Judged OUTSTANDING for the third year running

RHS ‘It’s your Neighbourhood’

Judged OUTSTANDING for the second year running

New trailer secure site-safe container bought

Formal committee set up.

12th in category Aviva Community Fund Awards - finalist

RHS ‘It’s your Neighbourhood’ – judged

Top category OUTSTANDING at first attempt

Local Nature Reserve signs erected

Finalist ‘Local Hero’ category – Bristol Zoo ‘Walk of fame’ awards

Major disruption from bus route roadworks

Monthly fundraising walks start

Over 100 undertaken

Delegate at UK Biodiversity Action Plan Conference

[UN International Year of Biodiversity]

Declared a Local Nature Reserve

Liaison with Natural England & North Somerset Council

Memorial Elms planted ‘in memoriam’

(American species “Princetown” - disease resistant)

Christmas tree shredding service - fundraiser starts

NOW AN ANNUAL EVENT

More planting on ‘Pearl’s Patch’

Indigenous trees - planted up ‘in memoriam’

Site extended to include ‘Pearl’s Patch’

Heritage Lottery Millennium Conservation Award

Advice & assistance from North Somerset Council

New volunteers start

The beginning

Bob Buck starts tending a small patch of Primroses

Bee Orchids etc recorded by local botanist

New cutting to straighten A369 for motorway access