Team Wilder: Improve your Neighbourhood for People and Wildlife
Team Wilder is a supportive network of people, organisations and groups, taking action for nature, sharing knowledge, resources and help. By creating space for nature in your community, both people and wildlife feel the benefits. Connecting to nature locally is relevant to everyone, in different ways.Â
Connect with nature locally: tidy up/improve local spaces through a litter pick, help at or create a community garden/allotment, seed swaps, local nature groups, encourage local wildlife friendly gardening and join them up to create corridors, volunteer, rewild part of your street, school or business etc.Â
A Wilder Avon matters to me because everyone should be able to experience wildlife close to home and not feel they have to travel out of the City.
Local Community Group Map
Joining a group connects you with like-minded people, either by location or common interest. There are also opportunities to create space for nature in local open spaces, parks, by volunteering your time or skills or bringing people together outdoors.Â
Search your area on the map below for local groups/projects: Get involved!
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Upload your Community Group or Project
- Attract new members/volunteers
- Shout about the amazing things you do and want to do
- Use the free Team Wilder Ecological Advisory Service (TWEAS)
- Develop Wildlife Champions in your area with free support and training
- Be part of something bigger
- Join Team Wilder meet-ups with other groups, online and in person.Â
- Share knowledge and resources for group progression
Add your community group or project to the map hereÂ
Team wilder is here to support you and your community group. If a local group does not exist, it either need to be added to the map or perhaps one doesn't exist? You have the power to create one with Team Wilder!Â
Need some help with taking action for nature? Get free advice from our Team Wilder Community Ecologist, either with a video call, site visit or workshop. Open to community groups and individuals in Avon. Get specific advice to make your garden or community spaces more wildlife friendly. Make sure you've added your group to the map above.
Would you like to become a wildlife champion? Receive ongoing support and training to develop connections and share knowledge with a network of like-minded people. Get the tailored support you need to take action for nature locally, however that looks for you and your community.Â
Hannah Bunn
Growing for yourself and for nature is super but growing with other people develops roots that ground your soul.Nimble_Bees
Grow Batheaston
Nimble_Bees Rachel Brown
BS3 Hedgehog Project
Wild Walcot
Building a bird box © Broni Lloyd-Edwards
(c) Neil Phillips
Blooming Whiteway
Blooming Whiteway
Grow Batheaston Ali Rogers
Nimble_Bees Rachel Brown
Grow Batheaston
Blooming Whiteway
Nimble_Bees Rachel Brown
Anne Corfield - The Wildlife Trust
Avon Communities & Projects
It's not always easy to get a local group going or running smoothly! There are many challenges to face - but this can be shared through learning from other groups, saving time and giving a 'heads-up' to others starting up a group.
Hannah Bunn
Caroline Rigg
Creating a Community Nature Reserve
The idea of an urban or community nature reserve is to take an entire block of land with a mixture of dense housing, semi-green spaces and wilder places and not just declare it a nature reserve, but bring the community together to join up the green spaces and encourage greater wildlife friendliness.Â
Our spirits are raised when we are surrounded by green and colourful urban spaces that are buzzing with pollinating insects. We also owe it to future generations to protect and enhance these urban spaces.
Sophie Bancroft
Take action for nature: Rivers
Get inspiration and learn about how these amazing community groups have taken valuable action to improve their local rivers. Special thanks to: Trout in the Trym, Manor Woods Valley Local Nature Reserve, Dymocks Wood and Thornbury Orchard Group.
- Litter picking and river cleaning
- Himalayan balsam pulling
- Wildlife surveying
- Community events and education
- Water quality reporting
- River channel management
- Thinning woodland
- Planting native wildflowers to reduce erosion
- Campaigning
Other ways to get involved in your Community
George Cook (C)
Volunteer
Register your details at the Trust and check the map above for local opportunities.
Businesses
Take action for nature with employee engagement days, sponsorship, rewilding grounds and more.
Neil Phillips