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VOTE for Badock's Wood!
Voting closes at
12 Noon on Monday 19th August

Fields in Trust champions and supports our parks and green spaces.   Back in May they launched their Summer of Parks celebration by releasing the Green Space Index, their innovative new barometer of publicly accessible park and green space provision. 364 nominations were made for UK's Best Park 2019 and Badock’s Wood is one of those nominated.

Follow this link to vote if you think Badock's Wood is your Much Loved space - http://www.fieldsintrust.org/best-park/south-west

Fields in Trust says that with this backdrop of the love communities across the country are showing for their local parks and green spaces this summer, the UK's Best Park 2019 award will not just be showcasing the parks to receive the highest vote tallies in each Home Nation. Each park to place in the top 20% of the total nominations will receive "Much Loved" status, recognising the support it has received this summer from those who use and love it.
 
Each "Much Loved" park will receive a formal certificate denoting its status. The park's nominator for UK's Best Park 2019 will also receive acknowledgement that their favourite local green space is amongst the nation's favourites.  [FOBW does not know who nominated Badock's Wood but they clearly love it as do we!]
 
Fields in Trust says that the unprecedented love shown for our local parks throughout the Summer of Parks is further proof of what we all inherently know: that green spaces are good, do good and need to be protected for good.
 
Voting for UK's Best Park 2019 will close at noon on Monday 19th August.

Litter Pick and River Clean-up Report
On Saturday 14th July a small team of four (plus one dog) collected litter along the length of the River Trym as it flows through Badock's Wood. In addition to picking lots of rubbish which had wound itself round tree roots or become embedded in woody debris in the stream, we also removed some of the larger branches which impede the flow of the river.
Five full bags of rubbish and one pink scooter were collected.

Our thanks to Clare Bishop - pictured - who has organised litter picking for the last year or two.  She is moving on to live in Totnes and we wish her well.  Sarah Hudson will be taking over the litter group.

To get mailings about litter picking events please email fobwlitter@yahoo.co.uk
Upcoming Events

Tuesday 22nd October  7.30 p.m.
Friends of Badock's Wood Autumn Meeting
Greenway Centre, Doncaster Road, Southmead
All Welcome
Come and find out all that is happening to do with Parks and Badock's Wood that we can't fit in the newsletter.  Everyone is welcome to join in.
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September and October events are still being finalised but we hope to have some or of all the events we had last year - Bat Walk, Owl Prowl, Owl Pellet Dissection, Fungus Foray, etc.  To let us know which events you want do please complete the survey and you can add your ideas in there.
The events will be advertised via a mailing and on our website, and on posters at Badock's Wood.
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Training for volunteers
There are a number of training sessions organised by the Council and its partners taking place from September onwards.
If you would like to attend training in Health & Safety (to allow you to lead any events in Badock's Wood from litter picking and general walks to conservation activities), in Gardening Skills, or Scything, please reply to this email letting Frances, the FOBW Secretary, know which you are interested in and she will send you the details.
Friends of Badock's Wood Survey

Dear Friends

If you haven't yet done so we'd still like to hear from you.

Please do complete our survey - click here - we are interested in everyone's views.  Questions that are not relevant to you please just skip.  The survey will only take a couple of minutes to complete.
If you tell us you'd like to get involved in activities it will help us if you tell us your name so can contact you direct.

THANK YOU!!

Friends of Badock's Wood
 
Enjoy the outdoors but be tick aware
download this leaflet for more information about
what to look out for and
what to do if you are bitten by a tick
Please report problems in the wood such as
overflowing litter bins, fallen trees, blocked paths etc to Bristol City Council through their online reporting system at: www.bristol.gov.uk/reportparkproblem
Bristol Naturalists' Society holds regular walks and talks every month.  They also very kindly lead many of the walks we have in Badock's Wood.  FOBW is a member of the "Bristol Nats" but you may want to join up yourselves to be in touch with people who share your enthusiasm whether it's birds, spiders, fungi, moths etc.  For more information you can download their walks and events leaflet for July & August or visit their website
Donations
Just to let you know.... 
We don't currently charge for membership of the Friends, but do welcome donations towards our costs.  Most of our walks leaders are kind enough to offer their time free but we also have to pay for room hire, leaflets, posters, etc and we also make some donations to organisations whose members kindly lead walks.  Where we have to pay for room hire, walks leaders, etc., we do ask that attendees make a donation.
You can donate at most of our events and walks - there is usually a collecting jar - alternatively if you would like to make a one off or regular donation to the group please reply to this email and we will let you have the address  / bank details.  Thank you.
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