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We’re starting 2025 with some positive news: we have been awarded funding from Bristol Avon Catchment Partnership (BACP) to continue restoration of the dew ponds in Stoke Park. The work will focus on the semi-circular dew pond in the lower Read More

Work to improve the path through Long Wood is almost complete, thanks to a grant from the Wessex Water Foundation Environment Fund.  This grant is supporting our work to make access to Stoke Park more enjoyable for local people, while Read More

Who would choose to mow a meadow by hand when there are tractors and machinery that can do it in minutes? Me, as it turns out. Scythes have been used as far back as 5,000 BC – according to Wikipedia. Read More

From April to September, we count butterflies in Stoke Park. We do this by walking a transect – a set route through Stoke Park – every week. We follow a methodology called a Pollard walk. This helps us gather the Read More

This Winter our work was all about the P’s – planting, pruning and ponds. Planting We are incredibly grateful to The Conservation Volunteers (Lockleaze Green Gym) who undertook the majority of this Winter’s tree planting. Most of the trees were Read More

On Sat 11 Feb some of us attended a free event put on by Your Park Bristol & Bath. There were workshops, a volunteer-led discussion about how to bring parks to life, and lots of opportunities to meet and talk Read More

I think my very favourite part of Stoke Park is the orchard, which lies on the south eastern flank of Purdown, in the south of the estate. As you step out from the shade behind the wall that separates Stoke Read More

We’re in the news! Our dew pond restoration work has been written about on the Bristol Mayor’s blog, the BBC News website and the Bristol Post. We’re restoring two dew ponds in Stoke Park. One in the Pale Plantation and Read More

This December I was lucky enough be one of 16 volunteers who spent a day with Chris and Tina from the Rural Skills Hub learning the centuries old craft of hedge laying. More information about which hedges we are laying Read More

Written by Nicky Hodges, Stoke Park volunteer and member of Bristol Naturalists’ Society. All images taken by Dylan Peters, wildbristol.uk Invertebrates are numerous and varied. These are all the creatures that don’t have a backbone (mammals, birds and other larger Read More