Nature Needs You, today
We need to raise at least £10,000 to fund our year-round nature care sessions in 30+ parks with 500+ people.
Nature needs year-round care but this is often overlooked. Without it, wildflower meadows perish, young trees die and ponds silt up, leaving wildlife with less food, shelter and safe places to breed.
Now is the time to act - all donations up to £250 will be doubled by the Aviva Communities Fund, but for six weeks only.
Your support could:
- Mobilise over 500 residents into regular action through weekly sessions in around 30 parks. We will support people to build skills and confidence to care for the environment in the long term.
- Restore and care for around 100,000m2 of meadows and grassland through seasonal cutting, re-seeding and ongoing management.
- Support trees and hedgerows through mulching, watering and protection so they establish and strengthen habitat corridors for wildlife.
- Enhance ponds and freshwater habitats so amphibians such as great crested newts have better places to breed and feed.
- Create and maintain habitat features such as log piles, dead hedges and rough grassland so birds, bats and invertebrates can thrive.
Importantly, through our extensive networks and inclusive approach we will open-up climate action to those excluded including Disabled people and unpaid carers, people with mental health conditions and communities from different ethnic backgrounds. We will target areas of deprivation so more people can engage with the environment and make a difference for generations to come.
Nature Needs long term support
We've worked in more than one in ten local parks. But habitats need year round care, not one off injections.
Local groups and charities care for their sites but Your Park is the only able to work across any park in Bristol and Bath. This is why so many volunteers need us.
On top of this, successive heatwaves are threatening pollinator survival. For example, bumblebees struggle to fly above 30°C, while drought-stressed plants produce less nectar and may die back before caterpillars complete their life cycles. Responding to heatwaves also means more support is needed.
In order to recover, nature needs you.
We cannot plant and walk away
Locally there are over 580 parks and green spaces totalling over 2,500 hectares - nearly the size of Bath City or seven Ashton Courts. Almost 400,000 people visit these parks every year.
We have taken action in more than one in ten of these parks but we can only continue to do so with funding.
Nature needs volunteers. Volunteers need us to organise sessions, plan activity, support and train them.
Your Park cannot do this without donations. Give today and support the year-round sessions and skilled hands that turn one off volunteering into a whole season of care.
Nature Needs You
Give today and support the year-round sessions and skilled hands that turn one off volunteering into a whole season of care.
- £25 doubled to £50 could put tools in volunteers' hands for multiple sessions over a year
- £50 doubled to £100 could buy plants and seeds to bring a patch the size of a tennis court back to life
- £100 doubled to £200 could fund a month of hands-on care in a park through inclusive sessions for Disabled people
- £250 doubled to £500 could pay for a full season of care in a park - a team looking after it after storm damage, heatwaves, vandalism or during bird nesting or planting seasons
Donate
Give today, see your gift doubled and support the skilled hands that turn one off volunteering into a whole year of care.