To #ReimagineParks for everyone, we need to hear from the communities not using them. 📣 We’re inviting ethnic minority-led groups who are passionate about making parks inclusive. Get involved: 📆 Mon 20 May ⌚️ 10.15 -11.15 📍 Barton Hill Settlement shorturl.at/fhsUV

Please help bees, butterflies and birds by reducing the mowing this year! By leaving a patch of grass in your garden to flower you'll be helping wildlife while reducing effort, cost and carbon emissions. Cartoon courtesy Seppo mstdn.social/@sepponet #Nature #ClimateAction⁠ ⁠#biodiversity

Have a lovely Thursday, a few sunny evenings have made me happy taking pictures of back-lit #dandelion clocks and buttercups ☺️

🚨 MPs have rejected a Lib Dem proposal to criminalise water companies who dump sewage in rivers. Labour abstained, while the Tories voted against. (Source: The Independent)

Last year, when new fibre cables were trenched through the verge outside my house, I took the opportunity to sow some red clover & other wildflower seeds in the aftermath. This year, they started flowering for the first time… until Rochford DC mowed them down today. I asked the

Joel Ashton 🍃🌳🍃 Rochford DC Virtually the same thing happened to me in Chelmsford City Council area last yr. They’re as bad. I was referred to the Essex County Council ecologist but a year later she still hasn’t bothered to reply. Expecting it to happened again this year 🙁

Playing games in TSB bank and getting comfy, just like TSB does with their 12-month tenancy limits. Because who needs long-term security when you can have a yearly eviction adventure?

Devastating scenes at Stanhope Road bridge Haringey Council decide to cut back vegetation at precisely worst time of year. Nesting birds all around.

I know I will forget by next Sunday so here is an evening blast of #SundayYellow that I found this morning in a carpark border. Sixteen spot #ladybird on a #buttercup. Lots of lovely bright yellows 😁

Only 8 people stepped up for #hedgehogs in the last 24 hours. ☹️ My OH says too many just don't care about wildlife & at this point I'm inclined to agree. Every day another news story about tawny owls being shot, hedgehogs strimmed to death or set on fire, hedges full of nesting

Full Council off to a hot start with the proposal for the new Lord Mayor by Jos Clark ...something about being qualified to stand?...seemed to be controversial for some reason.

Wellingborough tree group SAVE OUR TREES win at high court! They proved the council acting unlawfully when trying to remove a historic avenue of lime trees! This is a fantastic precedent for tree campaigners everywhere. STRAWPlymouth Bristol Tree Forum 🍃💚🍃 Paul Powlesland Paul Wood 🌳

After Bristol City Council sprayed our area with poison they returned to scape off any vestige of green. A few streets away, flowers still hold on. But, the only house with swifts has scaffolding up to block their nest hole. I cried at the side of the road ⁦Bristol City Council⁩

On a rather gloomy day here's a sunny throwback to the opening party at Victoria Park skate and wheels park in Bedminster at beginning of May. 🛹😎 The park was refurbished in April and is being enjoyed by many! #skateboarding

Mary Colwell Bristol City Council Apparently Bristol was meant to be pesticide free by 2021! pan-uk.org/pesticide-free…

Woooooooow. Words cannot describe how beautiful that is peaklass

Why is the world afraid of long grass/meadows? For those adopting a #NoMowSummer, I applaud you👏 You are setting the standard & 100% helping your local wildlife. Since we are no longer in May, I’m conscious the mowers are being dusted off, so I’d just like to say #JuneIsTooSoon

One of the last surviving Elms in Bristol Bristol. In our very own Castle Park.

As part of our #ReimaginingParks campaign, in the next 12months, we aim to: 🍃Create fully accessible parks 🍃Develop inclusive activities 🍃Focus on safety & female-friendly spaces 🍃Expand mental health support For 1 park in Bristol & 1 Park in Bath. avivacommunityfund.co.uk/p/reimagining-…

Community climate action happening across the city 👏 So far in 2024 our community partners & local residents working on the #CommunityClimateAction project have been very busy! Read about all they've been doing 👇 buff.ly/3R8Be0U #WED2024 #Volunteering