Half Moon Community CIC stewards five acres of land on the Bidwell Brook corridor near Tigley, South Devon. The company was incorporated in December 2024, giving formal structure to a volunteer-led community land project that has been running on the site since 2015. This report covers our first financial period, ending 31st December 2025. We have no employees and no paid staff: everything described below was delivered by our volunteer core group and the wider community of volunteers who come to the land. Activities during the period: - A weekly, open-access community gardening club, running 24 times with 30+ participants through the season, growing vegetables, herbs and flowers together. Regular attenders included older, disabled and neurodivergent gardeners, and the group is deliberately multi-generational. - 'A Place for Children', a regular pre-school family nature connection group offering nature-based play, art and singing for parents and young children (72 attendances). - Regular heritage land skills workshops, including willow harvesting and willow crafts, dead hedging, biodynamics, coppicing, tree care, composting and seed saving. - Two community biodiversity surveys of our species-rich meadow, which is close to Priority Habitat status. Records are shared with the Devon Biodiversity Records Centre so that they contribute to the county picture. - Fourten seasonal celebrations, storytelling sessions, community fireside sharing circles and therapeutic nature-based workshops held by local practitioners and artists. - A community bird box installation event in autumn 2025, supported by a Wild About Devon Community Wildlife Fund grant. Local conservationist and educator Mike Ingram led an accessible talk on bird habitats and box types before guiding participants in numbering, logging and installing six WoodStone nest boxes across the site, providing durable, predator-resistant nesting habitat for declining cavity-nesting species on the Bidwell Brook wildlife corridor. How these activities have benefited the community: - Wellbeing and reduced isolation. The gardening club gives local people a shared, physically active purpose outdoors in company. 100% of 12 respondents to our seasonal feedback form said that gardening at Half Moon had given them a wellbeing boost, and all twelve reported gaining knowledge or skills. - Children and families experienced togetherness and nature connection, boosting land access and inclusion of low income families and those without transport, familial bonding, co-regulation and children's early years creative, sensory and fine and gross motor skills development. - Access and inclusion. A grant (£400) from the Warburtons Community Grants programme allowed us to replace donated tools that had become blunt and unsafe. A new wheelbarrow reduced the walk between the barn and the growing site for older members, weed pullers made weeding possible for disabled members, and knee pads and children's gloves widened who could take part. 27 people were directly supported by this and around 23 more indirectly. An Alpkit Foundation award (£150) went towards a lockable tool store, so that tools no longer have to be carried the length of the site at the start and end of every session. - Intergenerational and family connection. 16 people aged 6-60 took part in the bird box installation and the first monitoring event. 100% of participants reported learning something new about birds and their nesting habitats, and 91% of those at the monitoring event said they felt inspired to improve bird habitats at home. - Food. Produce harvested at the gardening club is shared among those taking part, supporting the diets of lower-income members and reducing food miles. - Nature recovery. Meadow management, woodland and brookside habitat work, coppicing, composting and the installation of nesting habitat all contribute to biodiversity on the site and to the wider ecological network of the Bidwell Brook corridor. This benefits the wild inhabitants of the land as well as the people who visit it. All activities are open to the wider local community rather than to members only, and are offered free or at low cost. Grant income in the period came from the Wild About Devon fund (£298, spent on nest boxes and event facilitation), Warburtons Community Grants (£400, spent on tools, PPE, a wheelbarrow and a contribution to public liability insurance) and an Alpkit Foundation award of £150 towards a tool store. All grant funds were spent on the community activities described above.

Our stakeholders are: -The volunteers and core group members who steward the land and run our activities. - Local people who take part: families with pre-school children, older people, disabled and neurodivergent participants, and neighbours in the Tigley, Dartington and Totnes areas. - Freelance facilitators and specialists who lead workshops on the site. - Neighbouring landholders and organisations along the Bidwell Brook corridor, and county-level partners including the Devon Biodiversity Records Centre and Devon Wildlife Trust. - Our funders; the Warburton’s Foundation, Alpkit Foundation and Wild About Devon Community Wildlife Fund (Devon Communities Together). - The land itself and its more-than-human inhabitants, whose condition our decisions directly affect. How our stakeholders have been consulted: - We gathered feedback from participants at the end of sessions and events, and separately from facilitators about their experience of using the site. We record attendance at every session and event and run written surveys of participants. - The core group meets regularly and takes decisions by consensus. Where a decision affects everyone involved with the land, it is put to a wider collective vote. - Rather than employing traditional top-down planning, in 2025 we held a whole-day permaculture design session on site to integrate the perspectives of both the human stakeholders and the natural environment. Members walked the land together and mapped needs, constraints and opportunities in place rather than in a meeting room. This produced a shared design map that now guides development of the site. - We also hold facilitated sessions of Listening With The Land, in which the site's different areas, ecosystems and species are attended to and heard through a group embodied ecological presencing approach. - What emerges is treated as one input alongside ecological survey data (natural water runoff patterns, soil composition, existing biodiversity counts, and solar orientation) and participant feedback. What we have done in response: - Facilities. Participants and facilitators told us repeatedly that our single compost toilet, up a steep stair and some distance from the main activity areas, was inaccessible to small children, older people and anyone with limited mobility. We lost a regular older women's group because of it. In response we made accessible facilities our main funding priority for the year and submitted applications accordingly. Funding was secured (2026), and a new, accessible compost toilet is now being built close to the main activity areas. - Tools and safety. Feedback from a willow pruning and wreath-making workshop in November 2024 showed that our worn donated tools were limiting both the quality and the safety of the work, and were excluding older and less able volunteers. We applied for and received small grants to replace them, as described in Part 1. - Timing of events. Feedback showed that attendance and enjoyment were markedly better at weekends, so we moved our nature connection events off weekdays. - Staffing of events. Facilitators reported that running events single-handed left logistics such as parking unmanaged. We now run events with at least two people on site. - Site development. The permaculture design day directly shaped our development priorities, including water storage, a wetland area and a polytunnel, and these have become the focus of our subsequent consultation and fundraising work in 2026.

No remuneration was received

No transfer of assets other than for full consideration