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CLIENT: SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE COUNCIL

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Integra is the trading arm of South Gloucestershire Council We are Integra, the trading arm of South something which students look forward to in What we offer Gloucestershire Council and as your catering their day, and believe our service is integral provider we’re proud to provide students with to supporting students’ overall health and  Healthy menu options developed and  Three weekly menus published to competitively priced, great tasting and nutritious wellbeing. continuously reviewed to encourage promote independent choice, all meals. This leaﬂ et gives you an overview of the positive eating habits, with 80% of our including vegetarian options What’s on the menu food prepared from scratch catering services at your school and what you can Please take a look at our current  All our menus are developed in expect from us. menu below, as well as a timetable  Good value for money and consultation with South Gloucestershire Integra is the trading arm of South Gloucestershire Council AT BRIMSHAM GREEN which shows food options available competitive pricing Council’s Health and Wellbeing team, as We are passionate about food quality and throughout the school day. To sample a  well as students themselves endeavour to create healthy meals cooked free school meal on your transition day, A wide range of fresh, wholesome  from fresh ingredients every day, with menus please cut out the coupon at the back and locally sourced products which The same regular menu choices for free SECONDARY SCHOOL? developed in consultation with the Council’s of the leaﬂ et and give it to one of our include a range of fairly traded school meals students Health and Wellbeing team, as well as students kitchen staff. items. We also have a GM  A clear audit trail across all of our sourcing MEAL TIMETABLE themselves. Our aim is to make all of our meals free policy and purchasing processes Available 08:00 - 08:45

BREAKFAST MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY WEEK WEEK WEEK  Hash browns Beef curry with All day brunch: Roast turkey Chicken & Jumbo fi sh fi ngers Chicken New Yorker HM chicken burger Braised steak & Chicken, Battered fi sh Hot and cold items available daily to include;  naan bread, raita Sausage with stuffi ng & mushroom & lemon onions spring onion fi llet with lemon  Bacon Toast salad & mango Bacon cranberry carbonara Yorkshire & ginger   Wrap/roll/bap chutney noodles  Cereals Sausage Scrambled egg pudding   Beans Yoghurt Sweet potato, Caulifl ower & Quorn & Chunky Frittata with  Eggs Macaroni double Quorn sausage Veggie chilli loaded Spicy bean burger Chilli quorn salsa  Fresh fruit curry sauce Any questions or queries? cheese potatoes with mayo tomato, spinach and dahl broccoli bake mushroom pie vegetable  Drinks rocket & bap korma lasagne We’d like to take this opportunity to introduce you Available 11:00 - 11:20 Rice Herby dice Creamed potato & Garlic bread Chipped potatoes to our kitchen manager Nicki Wilkins who looks Boiled rice Hash Browns Roasted potatoes Jacket wedges Chipped potatoes after our catering team at your school. Fresh seasonal veg Baked Beans Fresh seasonal with cumin & Seasonal veg New potatoes Mixed salad chive Green salad Peas, beans 2 MID-MORNING SNACK 1 1 Tomatoes veg paprika Broccoli Red slaw Seasonal vegetables Mushrooms Mixed leaf salad  Pastries Please contact Nicki on 01454 311618 and she’ll Hot and cold items available daily to include; Fruit cheesecake Carrot cake Palmier Chocolate Arctic roll  Drinks be happy to discuss any questions you may have, Chocolate brownie Fruit crumble Lemon drizzle cake Flapjack Crepes with fruits  Sausage roll fudge cake  including; Chocolate sauce Custard Custard of the forest  Fresh Fruit Baguettes  Pizza  Any queries about our school catering provision Available 12:20 - 12:55  Your child’s specifi c dietary requirements or allergies with regards to our menu options, as MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY WEEK LUNCH well as any special cultural or religious requests WEEK WEEK  Information on the nutritional benefi ts of hot Classic lasagne Mexican chicken Roast beef and Creamy chicken & Breaded fi sh Chinese Day Italian Day American Day German Day Indian day Hot and cold meal choices available daily to eat in the fajitas with sour Yorkshire pudding bacon pie Classic Spring roll Brochette Cheesy pretzel Currywurst Sag aloo school meals canteen. Alternatively, grab and go options are also cream cheeseburger  Sandwiches Beef ginger with Spicy Italian Jumbo hotdogs & Turkey Chicken biryani available; & relish water chestnuts meatballs onion rings Schnitzel Beef madras   Baguettes Salad options Chicken & Pepperoni, Southern fried  Greek feta salad Quorn, pepper, Leek au gratin Quorn toad in the Cheese & tomato Ziguener sauce   Hot pasta & A selection of pineapple mozzarella and chicken Main meal desserts sweet potato hole quiche Kartoffel puffer (please see sauce (at basil pasta  and onion kebabs Apple sauce menu) Pasta Shed) Drinks  Olive bread Mexican fried rice Roasted potatoes New potatoes Chipped potatoes Veggie chow Spinach & cheese Corn on the cob Potato salad Spinach chat

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Celebrating print’s legacy and future www.theprintshow.co.uk The Print Show aims to be more than a traditional corporate trade show by celebrating our industry’s culture and technological history. Textile Printing A key theme that will be drawn out through the show’s special areas for Light Boxes and exhibitor stands is how to add value to print to increase margins for printers. With demand increasing for a wide range of high-value products, from variable data driven direct mail to coffee table books, this is a critical issue. The show will also seek to demonstrate that Exhibition engagement with print technology suppliers is vital if businesses in Graphics our sector are to improve their profit margins from a static turnover. In addition to hosting a comprehensive educational seminar Large-format programme it will also play host to a series of ‘Diversification Zones’. Printing The aim of these areas will be to showcase the potential of diversifying into new markets. As well as being able to view the technology used within these markets, visitors will also be able to talk to industry experts from a variety of fields. A final element of The Print Show will be ‘The Masterclasses’. A celebration of print’s rich technological history, these will see hands-on demonstrations from artisans of traditional print skills such Digital Marketing Crossmedia as letter press, intaglio, relief, and stone litho printing. Services Technology 3D Prototype Printing

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CLIENT: AVON WILDLIFE TRUST

Regional environmental charity

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WIssue 107 • AUTUMN 2016 lifeWIssue 106 • SUMMERil 2016dlife ildli d fe Summit in the city l Demonstrating the value for money of i My Wild City WIssue 104 • WINTER 2015 the services nature provides to society is central to the campaign for the Nature and Wellbeing Bill – the examples quoted should command the attention of Whitehall number- High fliers: crunchers. Launched in October 2014, the campaign is gathering momentum; with Bristol, as European Green Capital 2015, set to be a key platform. In March, the Summer Wildlife Trusts and RSPB held a Nature and birds of prey Wellbeing Summit in the city, and former Director of Friends of the Earth, Tony Juniper, launched his new book, What Nature does for Britain writes about the multitude of public . Tony Juniper meadows goods and services nature provides in this long-tailed tits

and bats magazine on page 28. D Nature and Wellbeing AVID

The Nature and Wellbeing Act sets K ILBEY Making insect out seven key policy demands: homes With a General Election scheduled for May 2015, The Wildlife Trusts alongside ten other 11. Nature in recovery – to restore nature within a generation, with specific targets conservation, countryside and access groups are campaigning to get all the political parties to set for species and habitat recovery commit to a new Nature and Wellbeing Act in their manifestos and onto the statute books in 22. Nature in neighbourhoods – create ecological networks across the countryside the next parliament. Cowslips and through our cities and towns 33. Nature in walking distance – address the inequities identified in the Fair ur focus is on persuading every Society, Healthy Lives’ report, such that every child can access green space party to recognise that, rather within walking distance of their home than a peripheral issue, the 4. NICHOLLS Declining health 4 Nature in healthcare – build awareness of the benefits of Nature’s Health natural environment underpins What you can do our economy, is the foundation of our food Positive change is needed: the environment Service into the mind-set of health professionals O STEVE medication; nearly two-thirds of adults n system, provides vital resources such as our has not been prioritised by politicians over Read the background briefings 5. Nature in schools – amend the Education Act to make caring for nature a key are overweight, over a quarter obese. 5 drinking water, and delivers tangible benefits decades – leaving 60%of UK wildlife species about the Nature and Wellbeing Act purpose of schooling in decline and 30% of our ecosystems A review of social inequality and poor to people’s mental and physical health. (see below) 6. (peatbogs, water-catchments, aquifers, health, 6 Nature at the centre of government – establish an Office for Environmental Collectively, The Wildlife Trusts have over Fair Society, Healthy Lives published n Put the key points to your sitting floodplains) under stress. Alongside this in 2010 linked unfavourable environmental Responsibility (OER), integrating nature and nature-based solutions into all 800,000 supporters, double that of all the MP and Prospective Parliamentary deterioration in the health of the natural conditions with people’s poor health and life government decision making political parties combined, quite a lobbying Candidates (PPCs) world, there has been a parallel decline in opportunities. Children living in nature-poor 7. Nature in perpetuity – add to existing domestic and EU law for protecting n Publicise the Act and why you 7 force for achieving positive change. human health: one in four people experience neighbourhoods were found to be 40% nature, consolidating those with the new duty to restore and increase nature in a a mental health episode during their more likely to be overweight than those in support it generation and in the future The future lifetime; 50% of the population is on routine greener, leafier areas. Find your MP Via the official Parliament website, Nature for people simply by entering your postcode: Avon Wildlife Trust has promoted the health parliament.uk/mps-lords-and-offices/ in your hands and wellbeing benefits of contact and mps Save Bathour wildflowers and beyond connection with nature for years. Our PPCs will be listed on individual My Wild Child Walton Common Connecting the city to People and Wildlife programme engaged political party websites and at Local Wild play for toddlers Explore the meadows Why we need to State of Nature over 43,000 people during its three year constituency party offices. With your help... the countryside lifetime in conservation activities in natural in urbanOur Vision parks andIncludes meet the Dexters! act now Key stats and local Plant a bat feast! realising UK news & Includes settings. The current Communities and More information Making a difference UK news & success stories Gardening for Nature project continues that work, wildlifetrusts.org/NWA Kevin McCloud the living landscape stories enabling vulnerable groups and young wildlifetrusts.org/election stories bats people in the most disadvantaged areas Nature in our new Vice President Includes of Bristol, Bath and Weston-super-Mare UK news & to access nature. These programmes neighbourhoods demonstrate the benefits of nature to Do we really need nature? Well, nature also hasNature the in walking knack of stories human society above and beyond provision distance of natural resources. For example, a year’s keeping us sane. We associate happiness with trees and rivers prescription of statins for someone at risk of and meadows. Nature refuels us, allowing us to return to the stresses heart disease costs £9,500; in comparison, 12 Wildlife a place on a weekly ‘green gym’ programme and excitements of making a living and looking after our dear ones. SPRING 2015 Green gym of woodland coppicing comes in at under £500 annually. Nature refreshes our spirits and that profoundly affects the health of our bodies. Nature makes life possible: nature also makes life Wildlife for the Future Protecting Wildlife for the Future worth living. Protecting Protecting Wildlife for the Future Simon Barnes, nature writer and Times journalist

SPRING 2015 Wildlife Membership magazine – 36 pages 13

Welcome to ways into wildlife Brandon Hill Nature Park

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Brandon Hill Cabot Tower 4 nature reserve Peacock butterfly Volunteers at Dolebury Warren

Follow the trail Look out for the other notice boards to learn about 1 the nature small flock of Wiltshire horn sheep, but park, 2 the wildlife pond, 3 the history of Brandon Hill and 4 the it is still necessary to return regularly to wildflower meadow and woodland. keep re-growth in check. Pond The Wildlife Action Group rarely visits 3 mainly because it has 2 Avon Wildlife Trust THE Willsbridge Mill TRUSTS Head Oﬃce Old butterfly Common toads on Brandon Hill garden its own group of local volunteers, but

1 we made an exception one Wednesday You are Robin on Brandon Hill here Look out for in March. The area under the Trust’s Cowslips, betony, oxeye daisy and knapweed grow management has been recently extended oad In the spring of 1981 one of the first nature parks in the UK Jacob’s Wells R in the meadow, and you’ll see butterflies and bees all to include land previously run by South was created here on Brandon Hill when Avon Wildlife Trust, summer long. In spring the pond is full of frogspawn, Gloucestershire Council, and we spent Remains of and toads migrate across the pathway. Foxes and with the agreement of Bristol City Council, transformed five Key to map Nature reserve trail Grassland Water Fort a very enjoyable day clearing scrub Public footpath Woodland N pipistrelle bats can be spotted in early evening. Clapton Moor acres of this urban park into a wildlife haven. Breeding finches, tits, thrushes and warblers sing to restore an overgrown wildflower Steps Scrub Scale Brown’s Folly Blake’s Reserve boundary from the woodland edges. embankment. Pond metres Around the reserves Nature on the doorstep 030 In May the Friday group visited

The idea that cities can be good for wildlife was very new in 1981, as was by Wildlife Action Group volunteer Robin Miller , by the Congresbury Yeo, to MIDDLETON Pools the idea of creating wildlife habitats, where city people could experience

JOE replace a farm gate and repair a stile. nature on their doorstep. A large hay meadow, two wildlife ponds, a My Wild City! butterfly garden and woodland were established over the following years by Avon Wildlife Trust’s vision is for anyone living This is probably the Trust’s remotest and Dry-stone walling at the Trust, attracting a variety of wildlife to this city centre location. and working in the Greater Bristol area to help least accessible reserve, but that’s one transform gardens and open spaces into a city- After a wild and wet winter it was a great relief when spring finally arrived. For the Wildlife Action of the great things about volunteering – Dolebury Warren wide nature reserve. someone takes you there! It’s a good site A centre for wildlife Bumble bee Goldfinch Group it also marks the time when our work starts to move away from bramble-bashing, hedge- In 1985 Bristol City Council offered the Trust the Together, if we connect habitats and green for birds, and we had lunch in the bird By volunteer Richard Jones use of the Old Police Station on Brandon Hill as spaces, we can create wildlife corridors – laying and coppicing. Before long the scything season will have started, but in the meantime hide, sandwich in one hand, binoculars We climb many steps installed by many a headquarters for the growing conservation ‘green highways’ enabling wildlife to move there are other tasks to carry out. Fox on Brandon Hill Join us! Avon Wildlife Trust is your local wildlife in the other. Wheatears, warblers, reed organisation. The Old Police Station dates from 1836, easily around the city and link to the countryside. volunteers over the years to get to the top of charity working to secure a strong future for the buntings, martins and curlews were all and is one of four that were built after the Bristol natural environment and to inspire people. With the , in North Dolebury Warren and then trek across the top to Riots of 1831 when a police force was first established support of its members, the Trust cares for 37 nature t Tickenham abundant, and on this occasion we had a get to our wall. One brave soul volunteered to Richard

images: nestbox, robin, toads: sam hobson. goldfinch: alan price. fieldfare: wildstock. peacock butterfly: mike dimery butterfly: peacock wildstock. alan price. fieldfare: goldfinch: hobson. sam toads: robin, nestbox, images: reserves, runs educational programmes, advises Somerset, we have been step- in the city. The new offices were opened by Sir David Nest box at Do you know? Brandon Hill is a fuelling station great view of a male bullfinch. carry the water container and another the small Attenborough in October 1985. Avon Wildlife Trust office for migrating birds, a prominent green oasis as they landowners, and campaigns on issues that threaten building and restoring a dry So it’s been a busy but very rewarding wildlife habitats. wood-burning stove to heat it later. follow the river valley. In winter it shelters flocks of Registered charity no 280422 stone wall. It has also been few months, with my fellow volunteers The Trust’s presence on Brandon Hill has become a redwings and fieldfares escaping freezing conditions This wall is old and we know little about it: why landmark of the city centre, celebrated over the years with nature fairs and Brandon Hill Nature providing some good company, plenty in Northern Europe. Fieldfare Aa good opportunity to look around the and who and when? I wish some ‘wallers’ of long ago had left their story in a urban safaris, wildlife work parties and meadow hay cuts. Park Interpretation Boards sponsored by reserve and to see the changes we have of laughs, and some very enjoyable visits . com ke V inlester jar amongst the stones for us to find or, I suppose, maybe not. helped make over the last few years. to the Hope and Anchor! A big ‘thank We can do something about that another day, so that ‘wallers’ of the future are design : Cattle now graze on wildflower-rich you’ to the volunteer placements for not left in the dark. And if nobody else will, I can do it myself... quietly. But first grassland where we have cleared scrub leading us and driving us to the reserves. some preparation. and encroaching woodland. The views of Now it’s time to look forward to high surrounding countryside are wonderful summer, sharpen the scythes and visit a This work can be daunting, frustrating sometimes, and a great pleasure always and the reserve is full of colourful few more reserves. to have helped build a well-done section. There are four to five basic rules, flowers and alive with butterflies, but it’s so easy to neglect one and build an unstable section which should be hoverflies and other insects, and even the Robin, pictured left, hard at work stripped back. occasional adder. , on As I work and listen I hear the sound of voices and the clink of stones signalling avonwildlifetrust.org.uk Protecting Wildlife for the Future We have also completedDolebury restoring Warren a and I look forward to future visits to see progress. And soon lunch, clustered about on a groundsheet, despite the damp dry stone wall at the transformation., near Bath, has always and drizzly weather, the small stove put to good use. Brown’s Folly the Mendip Hills, and started work on volunteers, and our Friday group visited J , in the Gordano Valley, OE Later, homeward bound, retracing our steps across the warren, through the

another. Stone walls are surprisingly Clapton Moor been one of my favourite reserves, and M

C vestiges of the Iron Age hill fort, our distant ancestors don’t seem so far away. S 17 rich wildlife havens. The stones attract to cut the grass along the footpath. we recently built some steps and cut ORLEY Wildlife mosses and lichens, but it is the gaps This gave us a chance to look at the back re-growth of trees and scrub. Over SUMMER 2014 between the stones that provide a hedgerow we laid in January. After only the last three years we have helped clear Volunteers take a break habitat for small animals, especially slow a couple of months it is sprouting leaves scrub and trees to create an area of rare Nature reserve information board – A1 worms, but also lizards and toads. and starting to change from a sparse limestone grassland in the middle of the Regular visitors to Dolebury Warren row of horizontal branches into a living reserve. This is now being grazed by a will be pleased to learn that we have hedgerow. It won’t be long before it is recently repaired some rickety stiles. dense enough to attract nesting birds, Maintaining public access to the reserves is an important part of the work of the

SUMMER 2014 Wildlife 16 Annual Review

Instructions to your Bank or Buidling Society to pay by Direct Debit. 2015/16 Please fill in the whole form using a ball-point pen and send it to: Avon WIldlife Trust, FREEPOST (BS6104), Bristol BS8 1YR Name and full postal address of your Bank/Building Society Bank/Building Society Join us for our Annual General Meeting Address Annual Review – A3 Avon Wildlife Trust’s Annual General Meeting (AGM) is on 1 November 2016 at the Guildhall in Bath. Members are invited to the formal business meeting from 7.30pm. Prior to the AGM there will be an exhibition space and donations bar from 5.30pm with Postcode presentations starting at 6.30pm.

Name(s) of account holder(s) Presentations are from leading environmentalist Chris Baines on Bath’s rivers and wildlife; CEO of Buglife Matt Shardlow, on our B-Lines partnership; and CEO of Avon Wildlife Trust Ian Barrett, on our new vision for Bath and the surrounding countryside.

Account Number 1. To receive the Annual Report of the Board of Avon Wildlife Trust is the leading local Trustees and Audited Annual Accounts, together with the Auditors’ report for the year ended 31 charity for wildlife and people March 2016. Branch Sort Code ...from wildflower meadows to ancient woodlands, 2. To elect Trustees (for further details please see the website or contact the office). from green city corridors to reclaimed photos: Front cover, orange-tip butterfly - Nuthatch ndy Morffewndy

Welcome a 3. To re-appoint Mr Simon King as President of the Mike Dimery, dormouse - Darin Smith. wetlands, Avon Wildlife Trust is dedicated Back page and below - Julie Doherty. Trust (recommended by the Board of Trustees). Originator’s Identification Number Support Avon Wildlife Trust, to working with local people for local Invertebrates on devli’s bit scabious Welcome to your review of the year from April 2015 – March 2016. Thanks to vital support from By order of the Board of Trustees - Paul Bowerman. 972829 wildlife. We’re supported by almost our members, this has been one of the busiest ever years at the Trust! We celebrated our 35th Note: under the Companies Act 2006 the serving join us today! Auditors, Messrs Hollingdale Pooley, are deemed 17,000 members and look after Cost of Membership anniversary as well as Bristol’s Green Capital year, and it was also the first year of putting our new Reference Number (for office use only) Avon Wildlife Trust’s vision There are minimum rates to become a member of the Trust (see re-appointed and continue in office. 35 nature reserves. wildlife five-year plan into action: Our Vision 2015- 2020* below). However, Please visit avonwildlifetrust.org.uk/AGM2016 is for a healthy living securing please consider whether you could help the Trust to do more for wildlife by increasing your membership payment and In this first year of our vision, we have made good progress. leading force in the development of the West of England Nature to book your place at the AGM. Please contact writing your chosen amount in the relevant box. Thank you! One year on and we have inspiring, landscape-scale projects up and Partnership. This year saw the production of ecosystem-service world, rich in wildlife, Our [email protected] to request a copy Top 10 for the future running in all five of our key strategic areas. New projects launched maps (which identify key services provided to humans by crucial Instructions to your Bank/Building Society Nature Reserv Ways to pay of the Annual Review or the full Audited Accounts valued by everyone es this year have enabled us to connect with thousands of people natural resources like water and trees) to help inform future planning and Trustees’ Annual Report. Please pay Avon Wildlife Trust Direct Debits from the account detailed in this 1 Brown ’s Folly You can pay by cheque (payable to Avon Wildlife Trust). However, across the region to create conservation corridors so the wildlife we decisions. We are using these maps to influence policy-makers instruction subject to the safeguards assured by the Direct Debit Guarantee. 2 Clapton Moor please pay by Direct Debit if possible, either once a year or monthly, love can thrive. to understand the value of nature and its importance to human I understand that this instruction may remain with Avon WIldlife Trust and if by completing the form overleaf – this saves you trouble and postage, B-Lines – our ambitious project to help bees, butterflies and other health and wellbeing. We will continue to advise on the benefits of Date 3 Dolebury M48 so, details will be passed electronically to my Bank/Building Society. Thornbury and helps the Trust reduce administration costs leaving more for wildlife. pollinating insects – was launched in March 2015 in partnership with increasing green infrastructure in development, plus the need for 4 Folly Farm Buglife. Working with farmers and landowners we advise on how increased investment in the ecological networks that provide us with

Signature(s) 5 Goblin Combe M4 Minimum Membership Rates they can manage their land for the benefit of pollinators. As a result, clean air, clean water, flood defences etc. M5 Please tick the appropriate box for the category of membership and Registered Charity No. 280422 6 Lower W Severn landscape-scale, wildflower-rich conservation corridors are being This year we also celebrated three and a half years of oods Beach 6 type of payment for Direct Debit: created from the Cotswolds to the Mendips, giving our pollinators transformative leadership from CEO Dr. Bevis Watts. Sadly we bid Limited Company No. 1495108 7 Prior ’s Wood secure sources of food and shelter. him farewell in April but warmly welcomed his successor Ian Barrett, A403 8 Walbourgh/P My Wild City championed Bristol’s year as European Green former England Director (South) at Sustrans. urn Hill Chipping Single adult (over 18) 9 Weston Big Sodbury Capital, and encouraged people in Bristol to take action for wildlife Together with our committed members, our fabulous volunteers Wood Annual Portishead Monthly in their own communities. Connecting people to their local wildlife and our inspiring partners, we look forward to building on the 10 Willsbridge V Two adults (same address) alley £30 is a key focus of our Vision 2015-2020: My Wild City engages urban tangible successes of this past year to engage and inspire even www.avonwildlifetrust.org.uk Family £2.50 Banks and Building Societies may not accept Direct Debit £42 communities with the value of nature and supports them to enjoy more people to champion and care for the wildlife on our doorstep. 9 A4 Bristol M32 instructions for some type of accounts. BRISTOL CHANNEL A4174 M4 Concessionary* £3.50 and reconnect with nature for their own wellbeing. Our generous supporters protect the future for wildlife and help Easton-in- £48 2 Gordano You may already know that Avon Wildlife Trust was the UK’s very nature to recover on a grand scale, every day. If you are not already 7 Pucklechurc *Senior Citizens, students and the unemployed are eligible£4.00 for this rate. h first Urban Trust. As part of our 35th anniversary celebrations we part of our exceptional community, please join us today. Clevedon £20 I want to do more for local wildlife N/A delivered a ‘Nature Rich Cities’ strand within the Festival of the With very best wishes, Nailsea Future City (part of the Bristol 2015 Summit) to explore the value M5 R. Kenn Long I would like to increae my membership subscription to £ Ashton 10 A46 a month / year (please delete) to help the work of the Trust. of nature and wildlife in an urban setting. As a result of this event, A4174 we have joined with four other Urban Wildlife Trusts to share and develop our expertise in urban conservation with communities Ya R. ard tton Keynsham Avon Name(s) across the UK. H 5 Weston-s-Mare A4 Ian Barrett Rosamund Kidman Cox Cong A38 Our role as a significant champion for nature in the region is also resbury Bath Address A370 R. Yeo increasing. Since its formation in 2012 Avon Wildlife Trust has been a Chief Executive Chair, Board of Trustees Peregrine Pete Blanc Pete Blagdon A371 Chew V 1 Lake alley Lake A37 Membership A368 A36 *You can download a copy of the Vision 2015-2020 document 8 3 from our website at avonwildlifetrust.org.uk/who-we-are/ Winscombe 4 Highlights of the year publications

Postcode Email Other leaflet AWT Nature R Radstoc k Securing wildlife Inspiring people eserves Midsomer Norton Signature 0 kilometres Please fill in names and dates of birth of children to be included in Family 10 A word from Simon King, 0 miles membership (as members of Watch, the junior membership of the trust). Avon Wildlife Trust President 6 “The work of Avon Wildlife Trust is of great significance to me. Bristol and Bath are among the greenest and most wildlife-friendly cities in the world, and the more Gift Aid: How to help us at no extra cost by donating your tax too! people realise just what they have on their doorsteps, I would like Avon Wildlife Trust to reclaim tax on the subscriptions and donations I make today and in the future through the Government’s Gift Aid

the more they will care about what happens to it.” scheme. I can confirm that I am a UK taxpayer and the amount of tax Hawkins Jon Misty Hutton I pay does exceed the amount I would like Avon Wildlife Trust to claim. n We joined Bristol’s year as European Green n We delivered landmark achievements n We completed our three-year n We launched the new Grow Leader training Signature Date Capital 2015 as a Programme Partner, including our new reserve in the Avon Communities and Nature Programme, in course at Feed Bristol, on ecological land which was also the Trust’s 35th anniversary. Gorge and establishing a partnership to which we worked with 15,000 people. management and food growing. n We delivered My Wild City, inspiring restore coastal flood plain and grazing marsh. n We launched Natural Estates, which will n We worked with Banksy‘s team to provide www.avonwildlifetrust.org.uk people to work together to make Bristol n We demonstrated the importance of involve 7,100 young people in improving reeds and rushes for Dismaland in into a nature reserve, through a wildlife connectivity in our B-Lines work, by creating green spaces on housing estates across Weston-super-Mare. A fabulous way of corridor network. wildlife-rich corridors across the landscape. Avon and Gloucestershire. promoting our land-management activities!

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Follow the trail Look out for the other notice boards to learn about 1 the nature park, 2 the wildlife pond, 3 the history of Brandon Hill and 4 the wildflower meadow and woodland.

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1 You are Robin on Brandon Hill here Look out for Cowslips, betony, oxeye daisy and knapweed grow In the spring of 1981 one of the first nature parks in the UK Jacob’s Wells Road in the meadow, and you’ll see butterflies and bees all was created here on Brandon Hill when Avon Wildlife Trust, summer long. In spring the pond is full of frogspawn, Remains of and toads migrate across the pathway. Foxes and with the agreement of Bristol City Council, transformed five Key to map Nature reserve trail Grassland Water Fort Public footpath Woodland N pipistrelle bats can be spotted in early evening. acres of this urban park into a wildlife haven. Breeding finches, tits, thrushes and warblers sing Steps Scrub Scale Reserve boundary Pond from the woodland edges. Nature on the doorstep 03metres 0 The idea that cities can be good for wildlife was very new in 1981, as was the idea of creating wildlife habitats, where city people could experience nature on their doorstep. A large hay meadow, two wildlife ponds, a My Wild City! butterfly garden and woodland were established over the following years by Avon Wildlife Trust’s vision is for anyone living the Trust, attracting a variety of wildlife to this city centre location. and working in the Greater Bristol area to help transform gardens and open spaces into a city- wide nature reserve. A centre for wildlife Bumble bee Goldfinch In 1985 Bristol City Council offered the Trust the Together, if we connect habitats and green use of the Old Police Station on Brandon Hill as spaces, we can create wildlife corridors – a headquarters for the growing conservation ‘green highways’ enabling wildlife to move Fox on Brandon Hill Join us! Avon Wildlife Trust is your local wildlife organisation. The Old Police Station dates from 1836, easily around the city and link to the countryside. charity working to secure a strong future for the and is one of four that were built after the Bristol natural environment and to inspire people. With the Riots of 1831 when a police force was first established support of its members, the Trust cares for 37 nature

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Welcome to the Bristol Whales!

The Bristol Whales – a sea of messages, an ocean of hope Sue Lipscombe, Cod Steaks

The plastic of its time Blubber, which was used for lamp oil, was a major product of the whaling industry, which accounted for the loss of much of the world’s whale species

Willow-making T ea K s by the beginning of the 20th century. for the whales cod s

Whalebone was another product; it came e r I ca Gu lane- n achez from baleen, a hard material found in A natural story large comb-like plates, in the mouths of some species of whales. It was Our Bristol Whales reflect this strange story of whales used for umbrellas, toys, collar stays and above all, for ladies’ corsets. Humpback whale photographed and plastic, and lost ocean species. But it is a story we by Mark Carwardine, It has been called the plastic of the nineteenth century. Trust Vice President can all help to change. Begin small! The sea of plastic water bottles was collected after the 2015 Bristol and Bath marathons, to highlight one-use plastic. Refill The sculptures were created in 2015 to mark Bristol’s status your bottle and save money – a litre of bottled water as the UK’s first European Green Capital. Made of Somerset is 1,000 times more expensive than tap water. willow and originally surrounded by a sea of plastic bottles, they depict a humpback whale and a blue whale in a blue ocean. Bristol’s other whales Imagine standing here 250 years ago. The river The work symbolises the great beauty of the largest mammals on earth, would have been full of the tall-masted ships which and the grave threats to marine life in the world’s oceans. The whales had made Bristol wealthy, one of which moored at were designed and built by Bristol-based Cod Steaks, and initiated by nearby Sea Mills – a whaler. In 1750 Bristol merchants Artists Project Earth and Arts Council England. It was unveiled in the city’s entered the whaling trade, and the ship Adventure Millennium Square in July 2015, and moved to its current home here at brought back two whales, which were rendered to Bennett’s Patch and Whites Paddock Nature Reserve in 2016. blubber at Sea Mills. The venture continued there for almost 50 years. Riverside – refuge or refuse? A willow tail The Bristol Whales have found refuge at Avon Join us! Avon Wildlife Trust is your local wildlife Wildlife Trust’s nature reserve, but they are also charity working to secure a strong future for the here to remind us that the River Avon is carrying natural environment and to inspire people. With the plastic refuse out to the Severn Estuary. With over support of its members, the Trust cares for 37 nature reserves, runs educational programmes, advises eight million tonnes of plastic entering our oceans landowners, and campaigns on issues that threaten

each year, we need to take action to reduce this Frances Gard wildlife habitats. Registered charity no 280422 flow of litter. Humans, as well as marine life, are Box Paul

T er . co M affected as plastic breaks down into toxic pollutants and enters the food Supported by The Bristol Whales chain. Find out more at citytosea.org.uk in Millennium Square des IG n : K e VI nles

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