Wildlife needs you and your garden to help

Making Nature Welcome in 2020

• Commit some time and energy in 2020 to make your garden (more) wildlife-friendly.
• Use our wildlife garden Assessment Questionnaire to find out how wildlife friendly your garden is and what else you can do.  Minimum donation £1
• Act on the report you receive and make it your garden even better.

Why this is important

If you have come to this website it’s probably because you already understand the impact that the massive loss of habitat (builds, roads etc.), the over use of chemical fertilisers and pesticides are having on our wildlife.  Restoring and rebuilding is going to take time and energy.  We have a dream of huge sections of the Stroud District becoming nature corridors and nature reserves providing habitat that supports the life cycles of all of our wildlife.  We care about everything; the midges and aphids which provide food for birds, the worms and fungi which look after our soil, we could go on and on…

We need you to help

This project is not about walking away from your garden and letting it go wild.  Our gardens have many functions and it’s all about how to get the balance right.   Gardening itself is a wonderful pastime, an opportunity to create what you want in your garden.  It’s a place for kids to play and learn about nature.  It’s definitely a place – British weather permitting to sit and enjoy a meal, a BBQ and maybe a glass of wine on a summers’ evening.

Support, Advice and Help

We’re building our resource centre, we are finding really good materials and adding them as quickly as we can.   If you don’t know where to start we’ll give you some ideas and help. Wild Stroud is run by volunteers and supported by Stroud Town Council, Rodborough Parish Council, Cainscross Parish Council.

Open to all

We’re asking for a minimum donation of a £1 to take the assessment.  If you want to join in but you’re financially struggling talk to us, email us, private message us from Facebook – do not let money stop you being involved.  Choose your method here: Contact Us

What are you seeing in your garden?

Share what you are seeing in your garden or when out and about.  Upload your descriptions or photos and we’ll add them to our website.

If you ‘re posting on Social Media please hashtag #wildaboutstroud and #wildstroud.