🍃Supporting local nature for our future 🍃
... helping nature helping us!
Current and upcoming projects / ways you can get involved / ways to help nature
Wild Colerne's & other nature-related dates
April events added
*** 31st May - 15th June 2025 ***
We are joining other groups along our bit of the river Avon and its tributaries to put on events celebrating our waterways and its nature, and to raise awareness of biodiversity loss.
See our regular posts for what to look out for this time of year in our local area, including 'wild flower of the week' 🌼
Ever expanding local nature & wildlife gallery. Submit your photos / artwork here!
Interesting selection of biodiversity, nature and climate news
Local area positive news! 🎉
* Local 'Wild Waters Festival' 31 May - 15 June *
a celebration of nature, our waterways, and community (Batheaston to Bradford on Avon)
Net zero farm fund launched by Waitrose & Partners
Grants will be available to farmers and growers supplying the retailer and looking to reduce their environmental footprint. Waitrose aims for 100% of its suppliers to be net zero by 2035.
Bristol hoping to become pollinator captital
To help pollinator insect populations grow - especially hoverflies which are vital for food security - a 43 mile (70km) "bee-line" will be created from Chew Valley, up the east of Bath, to South Gloucestershire.
20 million trees to be planted across Bristol, Wiltshire, Gloucestershire and Somerset
The Government is to plant a new national forest stretching from the Cotswolds to the Mendips to, "bring nature closer to people, prevent flooding and support wildlife".
Ex-dairy farm in Wiltshire to be turned into RSPB reserve
Over the next 10 years, it should attract chalk-loving wildflowers, bees, butterflies and birds, and improve water quality in River Test
Scheme helping protect Wiltshire's unique chalk streams
Farm at Great Chalfield Manor become climate-resilient food production hub
- "a thriving hub for nature’s recovery and regenerative farming".
3,500 trees planted across Bradford On Avon
BANES rate highest for Biodiversity on latest 'Council Climate Action Score Cards'
Wild Colerne is a registered charity
We are community-based:
locals working together on fun / educational / transformational projects, plus lots of events and activities - encouraging appreciation, involvement and positive action to help nature.
Find out more about us
View our Policies
(safeguarding, equality and diversity,
health and safety, and data protection).
We are very grateful to have been supported with funding from:
Grant for start-up funding from the Wessex Water Foundation Environment Fund. Their Environment Fund supports charitable and community activities across the region that have a positive impact on the local environment.
Grant from The Wildflower Society for 'botanical events for children and young people'. They are a national society for amateur botanists and wild flower lovers in Britain and Ireland who work to promote awareness of wildflowers, especially amoung younsters, as well as to educate about conservation of wildflowers, British flora and the countryside.
See the range of plants and wildlife in Colerne which have been recorded and added so far to the NBN Atlas online database
(lists with map)