Comments on: Care and Management of the Commons https://www.batheastoncommons.co.uk/care-and-management-of-the-commons/ Keeping You Informed Sat, 11 Nov 2023 11:08:23 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Cathy Crozier-Cole https://www.batheastoncommons.co.uk/care-and-management-of-the-commons/#comment-238 Sat, 11 Nov 2023 11:08:23 +0000 http://www.batheastoncommons.co.uk/?p=280#comment-238 Hello, my daughter Georgina, who is 17 and attends Ralph Allen Sixth Form, is planning to do the Duke of Edinburgh Gold this year. As part of this, she is keen to find a volunteering opportunity, which she would like to be in a conservation or nature related activity. She needs to find something through which she can demonstrate a regular commitment over 12 month period, e.g. One hour, a week, two hours of fortnight, or four hours per month. Weekends are preferable, due to school hours commitments.
I’m just getting in touch to see what your current volunteer activities look like, if you would ever consider someone and 18 (she could be accompanied), and if so whether there could be a fit here.
Many thanks for your help, and for considering our enquiry.
Best wishes, Cathy, Batheaston.

]]> By: Jessica Kashdan-Brown https://www.batheastoncommons.co.uk/care-and-management-of-the-commons/#comment-237 Fri, 28 Apr 2023 13:27:39 +0000 http://www.batheastoncommons.co.uk/?p=280#comment-237 Good afternoon Rob,

I was really interested to stumble across this website. I have lived in Batheaston with my family for many years and Bannerdown Commons has been a constant source of joy and delight for us, where we have walked regularly every week for the better part of the last 20 years. We have noticed in recent years how well the wildflower meadow is taking and would love to know more about the work that has been done to achieve this.

I am currently a masters student at Bath Spa and I am looking to write a piece about Bannerdown Common as a cultural landscape and my personal connection to it. I was wondering whether it might be at all possible to walk around the commons with you one day and find out a little bit about the work you’ve done over the years and some of your favourite places in and around the meadow and the wildwoods. If this would be possible, some of my other family members would also love to join, particularly my mother, as we have been trying to seed our own wildflowers in the field below our garden recently and would love to learn more about it.

I look forward to hearing back from you.

With best wishes,
Jessica

]]> By: Philip Swash https://www.batheastoncommons.co.uk/care-and-management-of-the-commons/#comment-236 Tue, 25 Apr 2023 16:11:11 +0000 http://www.batheastoncommons.co.uk/?p=280#comment-236 Thanks for taking such an interest and volunteering. Bannerdown is literally on my doorstep and it is a pleasure to be able to still enjoy the walk up and down the hill, especially when spring arrives. Thanks again and as I get more free time in the coming years I hope I can help!

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