Grow Wilder Placement- Wildflower Nursery
Avon Wildlife Trust is at an exciting stage of transformation: Grow Wilder is one of the few urban AWT centres and represents a significant education and enterprise opportunity to Bring Wildlife…
Avon Wildlife Trust is at an exciting stage of transformation: Grow Wilder is one of the few urban AWT centres and represents a significant education and enterprise opportunity to Bring Wildlife…
Volunteering at Grow Wilder has been a valuable and rewarding journey for me. I adored nature from a young age and was always playing outside and wanting to learn about the world around me, so to…
The sound of children’s laughter mixed with bird song have made a welcome return to our urban wildlife site at Grow Wilder, as we have resumed our nature connection activities for young children.…
As we enjoy the end of summer we start to get ourselves ready for autumn and what’s in store during this beautiful season. The days are getting shorter but the sun is still bright and the sunsets…
If you visited Avon Wildlife Trust’s six-acre site, Feed Bristol, and stayed for just an hour, you may interpret it as a huge urban food growing site. You wouldn’t be completely wrong. I did the…
Spending time in nature from a young age can positively influence children as they grow older. Our My Wild Child sessions offer families with toddlers in Bristol the opportunity to connect with…
Debbie volunteers for our My Wild Child and Wildlife Watch projects in Bristol, because it provides her with an opportunity to extend her skills and knowledge of delivering learning through nature…
Over the last few weeks I’ve held sessions at Feed Bristol, and it’s been lovely getting to know families, whilst we look for centipedes together, find icicles the size of dinner plates hidden in…
Ainsley is doing a Wild Paths placement with Avon Wildlife Trust – a nine-month training programme which gives people from diverse backgrounds a chance to gain skills and access a career in…
Slabs of smooth grey rock, incised with deep fissures and patterned with swirling hollows and runnels sculpted by thousands of years of rainwater, form an unlikely wildlife habitat. Look a little…
Having started volunteering in the office answering volunteer enquiries, I was keen to have a practical placement with one of our conservation teams so that I could get a feel for what they do. I…
Ella volunteers at Avon Wildlife Trust’s My Wild Child where she helps children learn about the nature around them.