Bridgend Local Nature Partnership

05/06/2026

15/05/2026

🌾Join us for a Meadow Walk at Lynwood Farm, Brynna (part of Brynna a Wern Tarw SSSI) on Tuesday the 19th of May at 6pm!

🐄Learn how Lyn and the Bridgend college students are using cattle grazing to maintain the biodiversity of this land and keep an eye out for devil's bit scabious and petty whin.

📍Let us know you are coming by grabbing free tickets here (parking and meeting guidance also provided):

Learn how Lyn and the Bridgend college students are using cattle grazing to maintain this grassland SSSI.

14/05/2026

🌳Coed Pen-Y-Fai Trust would like to invite entries for their first annual Spring Woodland Photo Competition

🦋Submit your entries to [email protected] by 12 noon on Sunday 31 May 2026 📸

04/03/2026

🌳 Ymunwch â ni am ddiwrnod plannu coed gwirfoddol i helpu i greu Lleoedd Lleol ar gy Natur ym Mhen-y-bont ar Ogwr. Mae croeso i bawb! Gwisgwch ddillad ac esgidiau awyr agored addas - darperir offer a menig! 20 Mawrth 2026, 10:00-12:00

🌳Join us for a volunteer tree planting day to help create Local Places for Nature in Bridgend. All welcome! please wear suitable outdoor clothing and footwear - equipment and gloves provided! 20th March 2026, 10:00-12:00

23/01/2026

🌳 In partnership with Kenfig Corporation Trust, Bryngarw Country Park, Bridgend Local Nature Partnership and local volunteers, the The Orchard Project will be restoring heritage fruit orchards at several sites in Bridgend.

🍏This project will include maintenance and pruning of existing trees, supplementary planting and eDNA analysis of unknown fruit varieties at existing orchards. These orchards will support biodiversity by providing habitat and food sources for pollinators while offering opportunities for community harvesting, training and volunteering.

🍎 The dates below indicate when the sessions are planned to take place (weather permitting). Each session will involve some theory followed by practical work. If anybody would like to attend they should contact Witchhazel from the Orchard Project at the following address: [email protected]



📌Kenfig NNR

28/1/26 Winter Pruning

18/2/26 Planting Day

25/2/26 Planting Day

18/3/26 Veteran Tree Pruning



📌Bryngarw Country park

3/2/26 Winter Pruning

10/2/26 Winter Pruning

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This project is funded by Welsh Government's

19/01/2026

🔍 Find out how we are going to use our Local Places for Nature 2025-2027 allocation here: https://visitbridgend.webflow.io/lnp-news-events/local-places-for-nature-plans-for-2025-27

🦇 Including key projects at Aber Fields (the Planka), Heol Canola Estate, Collwyn Woods, Kenfig National Nature Reserve and Bryngarw Country Park.

🪱 We also have some money set aside for community led ideas. So if you have an idea for helping nature, please get in touch!

12/01/2026

📆Cornelly Green Master Plan Consultation Event

🏞️Bridgend County Borough Council and Land Studio are hosting a consultation event for the development of a Green Masterplan for the area.

📝The event will take place at Cornelly Community Centre on Tuesday the 27th of January from 11:30 – 14:00.

You can also provide feedback via the following link: https://www.smartsurvey.co.uk/s/CornellyGreenSpaces/

Make sure your voice is heard!

28/11/2025

🦉The Three Valleys Nature Network covers the north of the county, from Bryngarw country park to the top of the Garw valley, and from the west of Maesteg to Gilfach Goch. We are a partnership comprised of community groups, non-governmental organisations and residents with an interest in conserving and enhancing the rich biodiversity of the area

🌳This nature network is home to an array of habitats including broadleaved woodland, grasslands, heathland, wetland and open-mosaic coal spoil habitats. The Three Valleys partnership is in the process of developing a set of priorities and project ideas that reflect the significance of this network’s nature and cultural heritage

🍄‍🟫 Our ambition is to create a network of people and knowledge to enable us to apply for future nature-oriented funding.

📍We will be meeting at Y Nyth in Bryngarw Country Park from 10:00-12:00 on Tuesday the 2nd of December. If you would like to join the network, please get in touch!

18/11/2025

🦋For anyone interested in getting involved with nature volunteering, you can now find a list of regular volunteering opportunities on our website 🪏

🌳If you are aware of other green volunteering opportunities that are not listed, please let me know so that I may add them.

🔗 https://visitbridgend.webflow.io/bridgend-local-nature-partnership

31/07/2025

🍄 Thank you to everyone who came down to Newbridge Fields on the 25th of July to celebrate the first Bridgend Nature Festival!

The event was a roaring success, with over 650 attendees joining a wide range of nature-oriented organisations and community groups for a day of fun, activities and education 🦋

The day featured a range of nature walks, treasure hunts and specimen identification drop-in sessions amidst a sun-drenched Newbridge fields 🌱

It was great to see so many new and familiar faces, and spiriting to see such an appetite for nature engagement.

We hope to see you again soon at the next Bridgend Local Nature Partnership event!

Please feel free to share any photos from the event (particularly as I forgot to take any) 📸