The Friends of Withywood Park BS13

Morning Hartcliffe, Withywood and South Bristol,

This Saturday the Hartcliffe Big Tidy and Community Event/ Gathering!

What: - a community event to bring the community together with a common cause of communuty and tidying up hartcliffe and withywood.

Where: - Morrisons Car Park (Peterson Avenue BS13 0BE) and a number of local Parks & Green Spaces.
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When: - Saturday 18th (this saturday), 10.30 am - 13.00 pm

How: - just turn up, no cost, no ticket needed, say hi, have a chat, see some friends, meet a few new faces, have fun, maybe pick a few bags of litter, return abandoned trollies.

1 Bag of Litter = 1 Raffle Ticket
1 Abandoned Trolley = 2 Raffle Tickets

Turn Up, Connect, Participate, Get Rewarded, Make a Difference!

You know it makes sense, and even if it doesn't there will be Tea, Coffee, biscuits, a bouncy castle and a Raffle with Awesome Prizes.

We would love you to join us see you there this Saturday 😃

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Afternoon Friends of Withywood Park BS13, local Withywood and Hartcliffe Reaidents,

Do you want to know what Bat species are flying over your Garden?

Sharing on behalf of Peter, Do you want to know which bat species are flying over your garden? 🦇 🦇🦇

If so, I'm extending my previous bat survey work in BS3 (see attached report) to cover BS13, and I'm looking for sites to survey. If you live in BS13 and are interested, please contact me direct at [email protected] for more details.

Please let me know your postcode so that I can get an idea of where you are in BS13. Thank you. Peter

Photo/ diagram just to grab your attention 🙃

Kind Regards

The Friends of Withywood Park BS13

Morning The Friends of Withywood Park (BS13), residents of BS13, Hartcliffe, Withywood, Headly Park, Highridge, Bishopsworth, Bedminster Down, South Bristol, and Nature, Wildlife, Film and Community lovers,

I hope your all well, and I am delighted to say and announce that the Green BS13 Climate and Nature Group is hosting a Free Short Nature, Wildlife and Enviromental Short Film Screening Night at Zion, January 29th, 7.00/19.00 - 10.00/22.00 pm. 💚🎥🎬

There will be a series of short films with all locally made, sourced, produced about Bristols Wildlife and Nature by and with local residents, community, people, volunteers, students and film makers.

We would love for you to join us on the night, to celebrate bristols incredible Nature, wildlife, enviroment, and the amazing local residents, community, volunteers, students, and film makers incredible films.

Including Nikki incredible, beautiful and harrowing film about the battle to save Yew Tree Farm and Catherine plight, fight to save the farm and legacy at the farm in Last Working Farm.

Green BS13 Climate & Nature Group Free Film Screening
Thursday January 29th
7.00 - 10.00 pm (19.00 - 22.00 pm)
Zion, Bishopsworth Road, Bristol, BS13 7JW

Donations welcome to both Green BS13 Climate and Nature Group and Zion to help us keep making a difference in the community.

Kind Regards

Luke, Green BS13 Climate and Nature Group & Zion

Thanks to .bristol and many more for giving us permission to screen your beautiful films.

See you Thursday 29th January at from 7pm.



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Hey The Friends of Withywood Park (BS13), and the Residents of Hartcliffe and Withywood,

Hartcliffe Pride in Place – Trailblazer drop-in event

If you live in Hartcliffe or Withywood and want to find out more about the Pride in Place / Trailblazer programme, there’s a drop-in event coming up at the end of the month.

This is a chance to:

- learn more about the Pride in Place programme

- hear what’s planned over the coming months

- ask questions

- find out how local residents and community groups can get involved

🗓 Saturday 31 January
🕙 10.00am – 12.30pm
📍 Merchants Academy, Gatehouse Avenue, BS13 9AN

There will be short presentations during the morning from Karin Smyth MP and Bristol City Council at:

- 10.15am

- 11.00am

- 11.45am

You’re welcome to drop in at any point — no need to stay for the whole session.

This is early-stage engagement, so it’s a good opportunity to hear the background, understand how the programme will develop, and share initial ideas and priorities.

Please do share this with neighbours, friends and local groups who might be interested.

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1AF7FKTcCj/

Kind Regards

The Friends of Withywood Park (BS13)

Morning Friends of Withywood Park (BS13),

I hope your all well, and I am delighted to say and announce that the Green BS13 Climate and Nature Group is hosting a Nature, Wildlife and Enviromental Film Screening Night at Zion, January 29th, 7.00/19.00 - 10.00/22.00 pm.

There will be a series of short films with all locally made, sourced, produced about Bristols Wildlife and Nature by and with local residents, community, people, volunteers, students and film makers.

We would love for you to join us on the night, to celebrate bristols incredible Nature, wildlife, enviroment, and the amazing local residents, community, volunteers, students, and film makers incredible films.

Including Nikki incredible, beautiful and harrowing film about the battle to save Yew Tree Farm and Catherine plight, fight to save the farm and legacy at the farm in Last Working Farm.

Green BS13 Climate & Nature Group Free Film Screening
Thursday January 29th
7.00 - 10.00 pm (19.00 - 22.00 pm)
Zion, Bishopsworth Road, Bristol, BS13 7JW

Donations welcome to both Green BS13 Climate and Nature Group and Zion to help us keep making a difference in the community.

Kind Regards

Luke, Green BS13 Climate and Nature Group & Zion

Hey Friends of Withywood Park,

🎅❄️🦌🛷🎁Merry Christmas Friends of Withywood Park and to all of your families 🌲🍽🍷🧸 ☃️🤶

And 🎉🕛🍾Happy New Year🥂🎊 to you all, I am thoroughly looking forward to next year with you all and the Friends of Withywood Park Group and some of the tasks in 2026 from Litter Picks, Bramble Bashing, Spring Clean in the Park, Hedge Planting, Wildflowr planting, and many more events for Nature, Wildlife, the Park, local residents and the local Community to name a few many other events and active days in the Park.

Thank you to you all for volunterring in the park and our local community and for your time, effort, resources, skills, contacts, networks, commitment, dedication, contributions and work in helping maintain Withywood Park and engaging with the local residents and community. 🙏🏻🙏🏽🙏🏿

Here's to more of this in the New Year. 💪💪🏽💪🏿 Stronger together 👍🏻👍🏽👍🏿

If you would like to volunteer in Withywood Park with The Friends of Withywood Park please do get in touch.

Kind Regards

Luke & The Friends of Withywood Park (BS13)

Hey The Friends of Withywood Park BS13, resident's and community of Hartcliffe and Withywood, South Bristol and even Bristol,

Afternoon, Leanne Reynolds, The Daniel Baird Foundation, Samantha, Shane from Spacemakers - Hartcliffe, Bristol and Hartcliffe Community Centre and Hartcliffe Football Club (HFC) have collaborated to set up a Free Bleed Kit Training Session at Hartcliffe Community Centre on Wednesday the 19th November, doors open at 6.00 pm, Training session starting at 7.00 pm.

The session is FREE and open to anyone who wants to learn how to save a life with basic first aid and how to use a Bleed Kit, how to respond and protect a loved one, another member of the community or young person and how to protect and keep your community if the unthinkable happens.

Don't miss this amazing opportunity! 🌟

Leanne, founder of Daniel Baird Awareness Bless Training, will lead the session. ( Wednesday 19th November, Hartcliffe Community Centre)

Details:
@ Hartcliffe Community Centre
Doors open 6pm, session starts 7pm

Kind Regards

The Friends of Withywood Park BS13

Hey Friends of Withywood Park BS13, Withywood and Hartcliffe Residents and community,

⚠️Huntingham / Paybridge Road is impassable⚠️

⚠️Huntingham /Paybridge Road is closed with two cars partially submerged already tonight (Friday 15th November) the water is at least 3-4 feet deep in the middle (easily waist deep for most adults) and unless you’re wearing waders I wouldn't recommend trying to walk across it either!⚠️

Drivers can still get around the park using Riverland Drive and Keeble Avenue.

Walkers comming from the the Northern Section of Withywood Park (containing the kids play park, MUGA and Skate Park) can exit the park at the Keble Avenue gate and will have to go up and around Four Acres.

Walkers comming from the Southern Section of Withywood Park (which goes behind and round the Four Acres Shop and Belgrave School) can currently just about get out the Paybridge exit right next to the housing, if we get more rain or the flooding gets even worse, you could/ would need to use the ally way exit going behind these houses comming out onto Paybridge Road slightly further along and could enter the Northern Section of Withywood Park from Three Wells Road Entrance.

Stay Safe everyone.

Kind Regards

The Friends of Withywood Park (BS13)

Evening Friends of Withywood Park, BS13 Hedgehog Project followers, Residents of Hartcliffe and Withywood and the local community,

🧚‍♂️🧙‍♀️🧜‍♀️👻😁 Happy Halloween and Fright Night! 👽🤡🦸‍♂️🧛‍♂️🧟
I hope you and the kids had an amazing night dressing up, decorating your house/ windows and gardens as well 🍬🍫trickle treating 🍭 and embracing the spooky, Samhain, and Day of the Dead Spirit.

I want to talk to you about your lovely, creative, spooky and frightful carved Pumpkins and Pumpkin Latterns. That add so much to the Halloween evening.

Sadly a lot of pumpkins are irresponsibly discarded and dumped in Green and Blue Spaces, Parks, and Nature rich spaces within the community after Halloween without any thought for or thinking it will benifit wildlife sadly for most UK wildlife this isnt the case.

Pumpkin isn't a native natural food source for any UK wildlife and whilst a few table spoons can be useful to small few speacies of native UK wildlife to a lot of wildlife particulary Hedgehogs it's actually a strong laxative and has the effect on them causing diarrhea and vomiting at a time they have just likely had a potentially second brood of hoglets, and all are trying to find the last possible morsels of food whilst preparing to hibernate over winter.
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Sadly this dihorea and vomiting can cause severe dehydration, malnutrition, and even starvation leading to the death of many hedgehogs particualry small young hedgehogs/ hoglets born this year. 🦔☠️🍊🤢🤮💩💀

So please either use your Pumpkin 🍊 remains to make something beautiful in the kitchen like a autumnal spiced Pumpkin soup, Pumpkin Pie for thoose of you with a sweeter tooth, put it in your food bins or donate your Pumpkin remains for composting securely out of reach of Hedgehogs at either Hartcliffe City Farm at the Haybale Cafe or at the Heart of BS13 Roundhouse entrances in the signed pumpkin donation bins/ baskets on Crosscombe Drive and or Belgrave Crescent. 🙏

Let's protect our local Hedgehog population, and the beautiful local wildlife and feed our compost piles instead.

Kind Regards

Luke and the BS13 Hedgehog Project and thank you for the collaboration with Heart of BS13, Heart of BS13 Flower Farn and Hartcliffe City Farm for protecting Hedgehogs and local Wildlife.

Hey Friends of Withywood Park, Residents of Withywood and Hartcliffe, and community come jo8n Heart of BS13 for a cosy family evening at the Roundhouse this Bonfire Night, toast a marshmallow over the fire, and watch the fireworks go off across the city from our beautiful outdoor space.

*What's on*
- Hot food (meat and veggie hotdogs) will be on sale, as well as hot and cold drinks and sweet treats.
- Lantern-making for children included in ticket price
- Sparklers and marshmallows will be on sale (please bring gloves)

*Cost:* £1 (children aged 2 and under go free).

Children must be supervised at all times by a responsible adult.

*Questions?* Please email [email protected] or call Kirsty on 07591636490.

*Book your space*
https://www.heartofbs13.org.uk/event/bonfire-night/

Hope to see you there. Please share ❤️

Join us for a cosy family evening at the Roundhouse this Bonfire Night, toast a marshmallow over the fire, and watch the fireworks go off across the city from our beautiful outdoor space.

What's on
- Hot food (meat and veggie hotdogs) will be on sale, as well as hot and cold drinks and sweet treats.
- Lantern-making for children included in ticket price
- Sparklers and marshmallows will be on sale (please bring gloves)

Cost: £1 (children aged 2 and under go free).

Children must be supervised at all times by a responsible adult.

Find out more and book your space:
https://www.heartofbs13.org.uk/event/bonfire-night/

Hope to see you there. Please share ❤️

Hey The Friends of Withywood Park BS13,

Just a reminder the Ignite Plan Survey Presentation Event is on tomorrow (Saturday 18th Oct) 10.45 am - 16.00/ 4.00 pm at Merchants Academy.

We would love to see as many local residents and members of the community there as possible.

A free lunch will be provided to all attendees, and free cake in the afternoon plus ample tea and coffee.

Come see the results of the survey, have your say and be involved in the next step of the Ignite Plan.

Kind Regards

Luke & The Ignite Plan

Hey Friends of Withywood Park BS13, Withywood and Hartcliffe Residents and Community

Morning, today is the beginning of this weekends Get Growing Trail 2025 which is on the whole of this weekend Saturday 20th (today) and Sunday 21st (tomorrow). (Individual Sites Opening and Closing Times may vary).

Some of your local amazing charities and local Green Spaces are involved some of which include:
- Hartcliffe City Farm (Hartcliffe BS13 0HQ)
- Heart of BS13 Roundhouse Site (Sunday only at 12.30 - 14.30 pm, BS13 0DA via Your Park - Bristol & Bath through Looking After Your Emotions Session)
- Bedminster Down Community Farm - (Bedminster Down C Allotments BS13 7AF)
- Belfast Walk Community Garden - (Filwood/ Knowle BS4 1LB)
- Bramble Farm - (Knowle West Northern Slopes BS4 1AW)
- Redcatch Community Garden - (Redcatch, Knowle BS4 2RD)
- Lush Greens - Whitchurch (opposite Asda Whitchurch, BS14 0ST)
- Woodcraft Community Orchard (Brislington BS4 4QT)
- Windmill Hill City Farm (Bedminster BS3 4EA)
- Dame Emily Park (Bedminster BS3 1DL)
- The Bristol Rainforest (BS2 8QU)
- Roots n Fruits St Paul's Learninf Centre (BS2 8XJ)
- St Werburghs City Farm and Propogation Place BS2 9YJ)
- Long Ashton Growers Community Coperative (BS41 9NA)

Get outside and go and visit some of your local amazing Community Assets, Charities and Community Groups and Green Spaces

Hope you have an amaz8ng weekend and discover or rediscover some of your local amazing places and within the City of Bristol..

Link for Bristol Good Food 2030 Get Growing Trail Below for more details and all the sites listed across Bristol:
https://bristolgoodfood.org/2025/07/28/get-growing-trail-2025/

Kind Regards

Friends of Withywood Park

We're taking part in the Bristol get growing trail 20th and 21st September! Come and visit our wellbeing and market gardens 🦋🌱

The get growing trail gives opportunities to dive into Bristol’s vibrant community of fruit and vegetable gardens, encompassing allotments, orchards, and urban farms. Running 20-21 September for a harvest event this year, the trail offers a unique opportunity to explore the city’s green spaces and get involved with community growing, all while enjoying free entry to these lush havens.

There are some amazing places and projects around the city on the list this year including in South Bristol! Check out the website for more info:

https://bristolgoodfood.org/2025/07/28/get-growing-trail-2025/