Date: 23rd May
Time: 18:30 - 20:00pm Location: Around the various parts of the Common Join us for a free evening guided walk (around 1.5 hrs) with naturalist Ed Drewitt! We will be exploring the Common, looking at the different variety of trees and the wildlife living amongst them. The evening time is a good period to enjoy birdsong and we hope to hear birds such as blackbird, robin, blackcap and chiffchaff. It is also a chance to simply enjoy nature at this time of day. (We will be moving around the Common for this event. Suitable for all ages, but small children may find it tiring concentrating for that long!) Please email [email protected] from 5pm, Tuesday 7th May to secure your place - only 20 places, so get in there quick!
0 Comments
Date: Saturday 11th May
Time: 1pm-2:30pm Location: Garden Room (The Ardagh) A split meeting - feel free to attend just one, or stay for both. All welcome, come say hello if you’re new! 1pm-1:40pm : May Friends Meeting Come join to discuss updates on the Friends group and events. 1:50pm-2:30pm : Management Plan Meeting The work continues to develop the plan for the Common! Please email [email protected] for materials, if you weren’t able to attend the first meeting. Date: Saturday 13th April
Time: 11am-12:30pm Location: Garden Room (The Ardagh) All welcome to come and get the Common's management plan rolling! This will guide the wildlife/plantlife management that we undertake with the Council, as well as inform what community events we'll be arranging to support this - so a critical plan for the future of the Friends group! Any questions, please get in touch, and if you would like to join, please email [email protected] so we can send you some materials beforehand. Date: Sunday 24th March
Time: 2:00pm-3:00pm Location: Garden Room (the room to the right of the cafe, The Ardagh) Come join our March Friends Meeting! The meetings are a great chance to get involved with FOHC if you haven't been able to attend any events yet - all are welcome to come and share! This meeting will be a chance to catch up on what we're organising so far and to decide an event for April. All welcome - no commitment necessary, just come say hello! Hope to see you there! Date: 17th March
Time: 2 - 3:30pm Location: around the whole of Horfield Common Join local historian Andy Buchan for a free, fact-filled journey around the Common! (Suitable for all ages, but small children may find it tiring concentrating for that long!) Please email [email protected] from 5pm, Monday 4th March to secure your place - only 15 places, so get in there quick! Date: Sunday 21st January
Time: 2:00pm-3:00pm Location: Garden Room (the room to the right of the cafe, The Ardagh) We'll be having our first volunteer meeting of 2024! The meetings are a great chance to get involved with FOHC if you haven't been able to attend any events yet - all are welcome to come and share! A shorter meeting as not too much to update on due to the winter break, with the rest of the time to have a chat - either about anything FOHC related we haven't had time to touch on so far, or just to get to know each other more! Hope to see you there! Date: Last Saturday of every month (except December)
Time: 10am - 12pm Location: Meet by the green "Horfield Common" sign at the front of The Ardagh (by the car park), or catch us on the way around the Common! Come join us for our Monthly Litter pick around the Common! All equipment is provided, but please be sure to dress appropriately for the weather. Suitable for all ages and abilities - please stay for however long you're comfortable with and take breaks when you need to. It's a very relaxed event and a great opportunity to chat and meet your neighbours! 2024 dates:
Volunteering events across North Bristol for December-February, featuring ongoing events (such as our monthly litter pick!) and one-offs.
Each park has lots going on with a variety of activities to suit everyone, so please do take a look and share with your friends! FOHC is working with the Council to refresh the cutting map and we need your views! What is a cutting map? This shows where and how often the grass is cut in the area. For example, short grass for playing fields will be cut more often: "5 cut" means it will be cut 5 times a year. Why do we need to refresh it? The last refresh was in 2015! We would like to provide a better environment for wildlife/plantlife across the Common. This summer, as we maintained the meadow patches and set up protections for the cat-mint, we realised that the old map is hard to follow and can easily lead to missed cuttings/miscommunication as well. How can I help? An initial map has now been completed and we will be meeting with the Council on the 18th December to feed back. Please note that this is a proposed map and implementation will depend on a number of factors as we move through the process. Please see the key and map image (also provided as downloads for easier reading) and send us your initial thoughts by the 17th December! Email them to [email protected]. Key: The management descriptions of the different regimes are as follows: Floral Lawn
Cut and Collect – 2-cuts
Cut and Collect – 5-cuts
Tussocky Grass
Bank 50/50
The maps also show some areas identified as ‘Flat 50/50’. These are areas that would be split between the ‘Cut and collect – 2-cut’ regime and the ‘Tussocky Grass’ regimes as described above.
Date: Sunday 3rd December
Time: 2:30pm-3:30pm Location: Garden Room (the room to the right of the cafe, The Ardagh) We'll be having our next (and final one of 2023) FOHC volunteer meeting. The meetings are a great chance to get involved with FOHC if you haven't been able to attend any events yet - all are welcome to come and share! We'll be going through updates from the last 2 months, such as the pond, daffodil planting and history walk, as well as deciding on events to hold in 2024. Hope to see you there! |