Welcome to our environment and nature section.
We have a summary of forthcoming events on the right, and for more events and information on organisations, click on one of the categories below.
• Click here for country pursuits, horticultural and countryside-related groups and events.
• Click here for environmental groups and organisations and campaigns.
• Click here for wildlife and conservation events and organisations.
• Find out about Sustainable Thornbury
• Read about the award-winning work of the Thornbury in Bloom team.
Horizon Nuclear Power is the UK company behind plans to build a new nuclear power station at Oldbury-on-Severn.
The proposed new power station would generate low-carbon electricity for millions of homes. It could create up to 800 jobs and many thousands more during construction.
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Memorial Woodlands offers families the chance to say a personal, appropriate farewell in the beautiful surroundings of our woodland cemetery, situated in a peaceful valley just outside Thornbury.
Our onsite chapel and reception rooms will be yours for the day to hold whatever kind of service you wish; traditional, ecological, religious or humanist, and our experienced team will be on hand to help you arrange every detail and guide you through this difficult time.
We offer a full 24 hour funeral directing service and can help you to arrange a funeral at your local church or crematorium as well as at Memorial Woodlands itself.
If you are arranging a funeral now or making plans for the future, please do come to see our beautiful grounds for yourself and learn about our range of services, funeral plans and woodland memorials. We’ll give you all the time, support and advice you need.
Memorial Woodlands Woodland Cemetery: Earthcott Green, Alveston, Bristol BS35 3TA
Memorial Woodlands Westbury office: 18 High Street, Westbury-on-Trym, Bristol BS9 3DU
Call free on 0800 612 2158 or click below.
Oldbury is an operating twin reactor station, located on the river at Oldbury on Severn. It produces electricity around the clock, supplying on a typical day 435MW of electricity - enough to meet the needs of a city one and a half times the size of Bristol.
Oldbury's primary objective is to generate and sell electricity, while maintaining a safe and secure working environment. Work is also underway to ensure a seamless transition to the defuelling phase and the start of decommissioning.
SITA South Gloucestershire has opened Revive, a reuse shop at Thornbury Sort It Centre. Set up to provide new homes for a wide range of pre-loved items and therefore help the environment by reducing waste going to landfill, you may expect to find items such as golf clubs, crockery, mirrors, tables, chairs, cabinets, fishing rods, jeans, shirts and much more.
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A recycling and resource management company, SITA UK delivers solutions to 12 million residents and 40,000 business customers, to help everyone reduce the impact of their waste on the environment. Visit our website below for further information.
SITA UK - We want to live in a world where there is no more waste.
Filnore Woods Community Woodland provides a diverse range of habitats for wildlife, gives people a wild place to visit, and provides opportunities for education. The woods are open 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. To find them, cross the field at the back of the Leisure Centre, the one with the skateboard park in it. The entrance is just beyond the new allotments. Click the link below to find out more.
Keeping Filnore Woods attractive for people and for wildlife needs a lot of work. Brambles, thistles and nettles are trying to take over the site and the grass needs cutting at least once a year to retain and promote the wildflowers. We rely on volunteers to do this valuable work. If you would like to get involved you can join the email list by emailing below or phone Jerry Dicker.
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We all enjoy the award-winning floral displays that brighten up Thornbury. Imaginative floral creations welcome us as we enter the town, and hanging baskets and tubs create colourful splashes throughout the town centre.
For this we have to thank Thornbury in Bloom - a group of volunteers who raise money each year to fund the displays, and work hard to plant up the various containers.
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Thornbury Leisure Centre
10am-12.30pm. We meet as usual at the field gate on the far side of the Leisure Centre car park.
The Chantry, Thornbury
In the Stuart Room
Agenda
Formal Business
Apologies for absence
Minutes of 2012 AGM
Treasurer's report
Chairman’s report
Election of Officers (Chair, Treasurer, Secretary, Membership Secretary)
Review membership fees for 2013-14
Appoint the bank account signatories
Brief reports from ST representatives on other bodies
Any other business
Informal Business
Refreshments will be followed by a discussion about energy and general socialising.
Wheatsheaf Inn
25th, 26th and 27th May, midday to 9pm
Over 20 local ciders to sample - and more.
Call 01454 412356 for more details or click below.
Old Down Country Park
Woodland Bushcraft Taster session in our Woods. A free drop in event with 'Schools in the Forest' . Free drop in event. From 1pm.
Thornbury Leisure Centre
We meet as usual at the field gate on the far side of the Leisure Centre car park.
Martin Wise of the Berkeley Estate Fishing Syndicate has kindly offered to come along and show us how to use scythes. His accomplice John may also be able to come along.
Hopefully some of us will have the opportunity to try one out. We have Paul Harrison to thank for putting us in touch with Martin.
With the local authority under pressure to cut costs it is not clear that they will be able to cut the grass for us at Filnore. But anyway cutting the grass by hand is rather greener than using massive machinery. I really think it might be possible to cut our grass using scythes.
They bought their scythes from The Scythe Shop. If you want to find out more, including watching videos of scythes in action, visit their website www.thescytheshop.co.uk and click on the many links. The Vido family videos are particularly impressive if a bit evangelical.
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Edward Jenner Museum
12-4pm
Back by popular demand, Yvonne Cox of Avon and South Gloucestershire Hedgehog Rescue will be on site with some rescued hedgehogs for visitors to meet. Yvonne will also provide information about how to help hedgehogs and answer any hedgehog questions. There will also be hedgehog themed trails in the house and grounds.
All this included in admission!
Jubilee Hall, Alveston
Plant Hunters - Thomas Lobb in the Far East, with Jan Broadway
St Mary Centre
Farmers Markets are held on the first and third Thursdays of every month, 9am-1.30pm, and provide an opportunity to buy a great range of locally grown and prepared products.
Like your own stall? For more information, please contact Alan Cole, Centre Manager on 01454 888822.
Wildlife gardening visit and demo - Gloucester Road
The Grow Your Own Food group has a meeting most months, usually on a Thursday at 7:30pm.
Click below for meetings after that or ring 01454-412165. The Grow Your Own Food group also has an email group; to subscribe email below.
Berkeley Castle
10am–4.30pm, Berkeley Castle Meadow, Berkeley GL13 9BQ
The Classic Car Show at Berkeley has now been running for over 15 years and has gone from strength to strength. The event started as an antique and collectors fair, with only a few classic cars and it has now grown into one of the largest Classic Car shows in the area with hundreds of Classic Cars on display.
In addition to the Classic Cars there are also Club Displays, Trade Stands, Auto Jumble, Classic Cars for Sale and the Antique and Collectors Fair.
Tickets are available on the gate for £6 (children under 16 are FREE, when accompanied by an adult), £5 OAPs.
For more information about the show contact Rafael Fairs on 01454 202638 or by clicking below.
St Mary Centre
Farmers Markets are held on the first and third Thursdays of every month, 9am-1.30pm, and provide an opportunity to buy a great range of locally grown and prepared products.
Like your own stall? For more information, please contact Alan Cole, Centre Manager on 01454 888822.
The Chantry, Thornbury
All welcome to an informal group to share and investigate geology, local and far afield. Meeting every 3rd Thursday of the month. For more information click below or tel 416882.
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