On 1st May 2022, Badock’s Wood became one of the 70 Ancient Woodlands in the UK designated as part of Queen Elizabeth II’s Green Canopy in celebration of her Platinimum Jubilee. In celebration of this we have worked with One Tree Per Child and volunteers including local primary school children to plant new trees in 2022 and 2023 – a Jubilee Wood – and local sculptor Andy O’Neill sculpted Jubilee Bench – see the photo, right. The benches, sculptures and other projects in the wood are funded by public donations.
Badock’s Wood is a living habitat for wildlife and after several years our much loved sculptures like our green man, are being reclaimed by nature. We would love to provide new wildlife and woodland inspired sculptures and benches for everyone to enjoy, We also need to refurbish steps and other valued areas of Badock’s Wood.
Friends of Badock’s Wood was set up by local community members to enhance Badock’s Wood in North Bristol and we continue to do so more than 20 years later. But loving this hidden haven for wildlife is not enough. We want to continue to look after it and provide exciting and interesting nature and environment information, activities and fantastic sculptures for everyone to enjoy. Our project plans can be seen here: http://www.fobw.org.uk/projects.php
Badock’s Wood is a public open space – open freely to the public 24/7. It lies between Southmead, Westbury on Trym and Henleaze. From a neglected site in the late 1990s the local community, working with local organisations and the City Council, turned this space into a wonderful local nature reserve and we continue to work to help manage the site for people and wildlife.
Friends of Badock’s Wood would like to raise the money to pay for the replacement of the two trees by the mosaics.
The cost of the trees is £330 each and if we can raise this quickly we should be able to order the replacements so that they take place this year. Planting is usually planned before Christmas.
The pear tree will not be listed on the sponsorship site as we have told the council that we definitely want to fund that one by our members, but the other one by the school boundary will be listed for individual sponsorship, which means one person or family could sponsor the whole tree, or if we raise enough from donations we can arrange to do it through the Friends group.
You can support our work at https://www.gofundme.com/f/funding-for-badocks-wood-in-bristol
You can also follow us on Eventbrite to keep up to date with our events and work parties.
All our work parties are led by trained leaders and we undertake works to enhance the nature reserve in consultation with the Parks Officers and we respect the wood.
As the saying goes “take nothing but photos, leave nothing but footprints”.