Keeley Mitson shares how the Grow Leader course helped her journey into a career in the environmental sector

Autumn is an ideal time of year to get planting! The ground is still warm from summer as the season changes. It's time to tuck in your wildflower plant babies, ready for spring. Our urban…

Our Learning Team's Communications and Administration Officer, Stephanie Sharkey, spent a bright spring day with our current crop of Grow Leader students.

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…

This week’s blog has been written by Arif Jamal, who is currently on our Grow Leader course, an eight week programme at our Grow Wilder site which aims to develop an understanding of basic growing…

Festival season has well and truly started, so what better way to connect and celebrate the natural world than with the Festival of Nature? It’s the largest event of its kind in the UK, with…

Volunteers' Week takes place from 1 – 7 June and is an opportunity for us to sing the praises of those people who donate their time to help our local wildlife thrive.

It’s a very special day here for us at Avon Wildlife Trust – not only is 22 April celebrated as Earth Day, but it also marks the start of the Green Match Fund week, which means that for one week…

When I started in my role as Communications Officer for Avon Wildlife Trust a little under a year ago, we were emerging from a wintry lockdown. There was a collective sense of weariness, and a…

Our Bristol wildflower site, with its lush food-growing areas and sense of peace in an urban world, is full of special places. One of them is the Sunburst Garden. In the past, this fabulous space…