Reimagining Hartcliffe Millennium Green

Hartcliffe Millennium Green is a vital site for people living in BS13. We're working in partnership with the local community to make it an exemplar park for Disabled people and carers.


This will be the one of the first parks accessible to people with any impairment. We are over the moon to share that there has been a huge round of improvements.



Thank you for your support - this couldn't have happened without you.

  • Hmg shelter
  • Hmg gate
  • Hmg whole park
  • Hmg notice board
  • Hmg seats and handrail

    What's changed...

    Hmg gateway

    Thanks to our partnership with local Disabled people and carers, the Friends of Hartcliffe Millennium Green, Bristol City Council and our funders and donors, the community garden has been transformed:

    • A wider entranceway
    • Smooth resurfaced paths
    • Sensory markers
    • Raised planters
    • Additional seating
    • A community noticeboard
    • A hand rail
    • A large shelter
    • A sensory garden will be planted this spring.

    Community views...

    Hmg jan access

    Jan Bohin (right) from the Friends of Hartcliffe Millennium Green said:

    “We know how important this park is to local people, and the challenges many of them have faced previously – whether that’s being able to get through the gate, or because of anti-social behaviour making people not feel safe. We’ve worked over the last five years to change that, and it’s been great working with Your Park Bristol & Bath, our volunteers, Bristol City Councillors and parks department, to bring our funding together to ensure we can make the changes that will benefit so many people. We’re really pleased to see the work complete.”

    Jan has been integral in working with the Council and raising funds to improve the gate and resurfacing the park.

    Next steps...

    Roots HMG 2

    Additional funding is needed for:

    • Accessible bus stop with raised kerb
    • Better play for Disabled children and younger children
    • More community activities to make the park feel better used and safer
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    Our partners...

    Hmg partners

    We stronger when we work together and this project was made possible by the collective action of our partners:

    • Bristol Disability Equality Forum
    • Carers Support Bristol
    • Friends of Hartcliffe Millennium Green
    • Bristol City Council
    • Sensory Trust UK
    • John James Foundation Bristol
    • Postcode Local Trust
    • Reimagining Parks campaign donors

    Thank you.

    The area

    In Hartcliffe & Withywood 46% of households have at least one Disabled resident. Friends of the Earth found that Hartcliffe is a hotspot for Green Space Deprivation.

    The park is small with a play area, community garden and orchard, along with a performance arena, wildlife pond and wetland.

    The play area includes a slingshot, dish roundabout, trampoline, accessible nest swing, climbing frame with slide and cargo net as well as boulders, logs, seats and bins. The play area is fenced off to make it dog free.

    It has a small Friends of Park Group that have worked hard to improve the park over the years.

    Accessibility Consultation

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    We worked a group of local Disabled people and carers with a mix of impairments and differences, including neurodiversity, mobility and sensory impairments, to carry out the world’s first community-led accessibility audit of a park involving all impairments.

    The learnings from the project are being used to develop a Toolkit that can be shared with other communities to help make their parks more accessible.

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