This year we continued to expand the site as a community-led space for food growing, biodiversity, practical learning and wellbeing. We established our first chicken coop and flock, continued development of the coppice with a further donation of 420 trees from the Woodland Trust, and began active restoration work on the historic pond through volunteer conservation days. We hosted our first community wassail event, attended by 32 people, launched our first external woodworking workshop focused on bowl turning, delivered a pickling workshop using produce grown on site, and established the first beehive with a shared community honey harvest. Regular volunteering remained central to the project, with over 100 volunteer sign-ups and volunteer sessions taking place every other week through the Can-Do Bristol volunteering network. These sessions combined practical land-based activities, food growing, conservation and shared harvests, helping people build skills, confidence and social connections. We also hosted our first corporate volunteering day, introducing participants to permaculture principles, gardening activities, communal outdoor cooking and traditional scything techniques. Further improvements were made to site infrastructure, including upgraded compost toilet facilities to better support volunteers and visitors. Alongside practical activity on the land, we also shared learning from the project more widely through a presentation to a public sector organisation on the use of data, community-led improvement and productivity approaches. We believe these activities have strengthened community participation, improved biodiversity, supported environmental education and traditional skills sharing, and continued to develop the site as an accessible and regenerative community resource. Activity included, but wasn’t limited to: * Established first chicken coop and flock on site * Continued coppice planting, including a further 420 trees donated by the Woodland Trust * Ran volunteer conservation days to begin clearing and restoring the historic pond * Reached over 100 volunteer sign-ups * Hosted our first community wassail event, attended by 32 people * Delivered volunteer sessions every other week through the Can-Do Bristol volunteering network * Shared harvests and produce with volunteers throughout the year * Ran a pickling workshop using site-grown produce including radishes * Improved compost toilet facilities for volunteers and visitors * Hosted the first external woodworking workshop on site, focused on bowl turning * Delivered our first corporate volunteering day, including permaculture activities, gardening, communal lunch preparation and practical scything experience * Established the first beehive on site and shared the resulting honey harvest with volunteers * Hosted a volunteer apple pressing day to make cider * Delivered a presentation to a public body on the project and approaches to improvement, productivity and data use

Our stakeholders include volunteers, event and workshop participants, local residents, neighbouring landowners and businesses, subscribers to our mailing list, corporate volunteering partners, public sector contacts, and subject matter experts such as ecologists, tree specialists, beekeepers, orchard and cider-making practitioners, and skilled craftspeople. We consulted stakeholders through regular volunteer sessions, feedback from event and workshop participants, direct conversations on site, newsletters to our mailing list, engagement through the Can-Do Bristol volunteering network, and dialogue with local residents, neighbouring landowners and businesses. We also continued to seek specialist advice and practical input from people with relevant expertise, including those supporting conservation, woodland management, food growing, beekeeping, woodworking and traditional orchard activities. In response to feedback and emerging community interest, we expanded the range of activities available on site, including the wassail event, pickling workshop, bowl-turning workshop, apple pressing, beekeeping and corporate volunteering. We also improved compost toilet facilities, continued to adapt volunteer activities to make them accessible and rewarding, and developed more hands-on opportunities for people to learn practical skills, share food and harvests, and contribute to the long-term improvement of the site.

No remuneration was received

No transfer of assets other than for full consideration