The Sims' Hill Community Woodland AGM is taking place next Thursday 26 April at the Bristol Business Park on Coldharbour Lane. The meeting will be held in the woodland if the weather's fine so finger's crossed for clear skies!
Anyone who paid the annual membership fee of £5 in 2011 will be given this year's membership absolutely free, but new members will be subject to the fee.
A hidden woodland behind Bristol Business Park and Scholars Chase in Stoke Gifford, Bristol - w3w.co/ends.lived.solved
Tuesday 17 April 2012
Monday 12 March 2012
A message from the Chair
We are continuing to push for the management plan - a crucial step towards getting our licence to operate from the Council. We are using a web-based tool called MyForest and, as a first step, we will be walking the wood to map out which types of tree grow where. We will then discuss emerging thoughts at the next Committee meeting on Monday 26 March.
The Splatts Abbey Wood Conservation Group kindly welcomed me to their committee meeting last Tuesday 6 March. This gave me food for thought about how making links with the people who live around Sims’ Hill is about more than increasing the benefits of the woodland; it is also about our legitimacy. A bunch of people who only really travel into the area for work need the people who live there to give them a licence to operate in the local landscape.
It is also about energy. The current Sims Hill group was initiated by people wanting to make the place they walk in at lunchtime better, by professional development, and by a cherished belief in the special nature of woodlands. These are strong motivators, but wanting to make better the place where you and your family live is another, probably even stronger, motivation.
It is also about energy. The current Sims Hill group was initiated by people wanting to make the place they walk in at lunchtime better, by professional development, and by a cherished belief in the special nature of woodlands. These are strong motivators, but wanting to make better the place where you and your family live is another, probably even stronger, motivation.
Dom Driver, Chair, Sims Hill Community Woodland Group
Thursday 2 February 2012
Planning the management plan
The last committee meeting was on Monday 19 December 2011, where it was decided to make a push for completion of the management plan. Until we have a plan, we can't get a licence for heavy duty work, which means any tasks undertaken in the woodland will be low impact (such as litter picking and path clearing).
We want our members to feel they can get stuck in and really make a difference and so will soon be registering the woodland on MyForest, where we can speed up the process and get our plan (and act) together.
The prospect of potential work once we have a licence is a very exciting one so watch this space for details of future working parties!
We want our members to feel they can get stuck in and really make a difference and so will soon be registering the woodland on MyForest, where we can speed up the process and get our plan (and act) together.
The prospect of potential work once we have a licence is a very exciting one so watch this space for details of future working parties!
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