Friends of Valley Walk

13/04/2026

Morning Hartcliffe, Withywood and South Bristol,

This Saturday the Hartcliffe Big Tidy and Community Event/ Gathering!

What: - a community event to bring the community together with a common cause of communuty and tidying up hartcliffe and withywood.

Where: - Morrisons Car Park (Peterson Avenue BS13 0BE) and a number of local Parks & Green Spaces.
What3words: spun.bags.copies

When: - Saturday 18th (this saturday), 10.30 am - 13.00 pm

How: - just turn up, no cost, no ticket needed, say hi, have a chat, see some friends, meet a few new faces, have fun, maybe pick a few bags of litter, return abandoned trollies.

1 Bag of Litter = 1 Raffle Ticket
1 Abandoned Trolley = 2 Raffle Tickets

Turn Up, Connect, Participate, Get Rewarded, Make a Difference!

You know it makes sense, and even if it doesn't there will be Tea, Coffee, biscuits, a bouncy castle and a Raffle with Awesome Prizes.

We would love you to join us see you there this Saturday 😃

🧃🥫🚯🚮♻️🎁

06/03/2026

04/03/2026

Afternoon Hartcliffe Friends of Valley Walk,

Do you want to know what Bat species are flying over your Garden?

Sharing on behalf of Peter, Do you want to know which bat species are flying over your garden? 🦇 🦇🦇

If so, I'm extending my previous bat survey work in BS3 (see attached report) to cover BS13, and I'm looking for sites to survey. If you live in BS13 and are interested, please contact me direct at [email protected] for more details.

Please let me know your postcode so that I can get an idea of where you are in BS13. Thank you. Peter

Photo/ diagram just to grab your attention 🙃

Kind Regards

Friends of Valley Walk

26/01/2026

Morning Friends of Valley Walk , residents of BS13, Hartcliffe, Withywood, Headly Park, Highridge, Bishopsworth, Bedminster Down, South Bristol, and Nature, Wildlife, Film and Community lovers,

I hope your all well, and I am delighted to say and announce that the Green BS13 Climate and Nature Group is hosting a Free Short Nature, Wildlife and Enviromental Short Film Screening Night at Zion, January 29th, 7.00/19.00 - 10.00/22.00 pm. 💚🎥🎬

There will be a series of short films with all locally made, sourced, produced about Bristols Wildlife and Nature by and with local residents, community, people, volunteers, students and film makers.

We would love for you to join us on the night, to celebrate bristols incredible Nature, wildlife, enviroment, and the amazing local residents, community, volunteers, students, and film makers incredible films.

Including Nikki incredible, beautiful and harrowing film about the battle to save Yew Tree Farm and Catherine plight, fight to save the farm and legacy at the farm in Last Working Farm.

Green BS13 Climate & Nature Group Free Film Screening
Thursday January 29th
7.00 - 10.00 pm (19.00 - 22.00 pm)
Zion, Bishopsworth Road, Bristol, BS13 7JW

Donations welcome to both Green BS13 Climate and Nature Group and Zion to help us keep making a difference in the community.

Kind Regards

Luke, Green BS13 Climate and Nature Group & Zion

Thanks to .bristol and many more for giving us permission to screen your beautiful films.

See you Thursday 29th January at from 7pm.



Please help us share far and wide .bishopsworth

25/01/2026

Hey Frends of Valley Walk, and the Residents of Hartcliffe and Withywood,

Hartcliffe Pride in Place – Trailblazer drop-in event

If you live in Hartcliffe or Withywood and want to find out more about the Pride in Place / Trailblazer programme, there’s a drop-in event coming up at the end of the month.

This is a chance to:

- learn more about the Pride in Place programme

- hear what’s planned over the coming months

- ask questions

- find out how local residents and community groups can get involved

🗓 Saturday 31 January
🕙 10.00am – 12.30pm
📍 Merchants Academy, Gatehouse Avenue, BS13 9AN

There will be short presentations during the morning from Karin Smyth MP and Bristol City Council at:

- 10.15am

- 11.00am

- 11.45am

You’re welcome to drop in at any point — no need to stay for the whole session.

This is early-stage engagement, so it’s a good opportunity to hear the background, understand how the programme will develop, and share initial ideas and priorities.

Please do share this with neighbours, friends and local groups who might be interested.

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1AF7FKTcCj/

Kind Regards

Valley Walk

15/01/2026

Morning Friends of Valley Walk, Residents of Hartcliffe, Wirhywood and BS13,

I hope your all well, and I am delighted to say and announce that the Green BS13 Climate and Nature Group is hosting a Nature, Wildlife and Enviromental Film Screening Night at Zion, January 29th, 7.00/19.00 - 10.00/22.00 pm.

There will be a series of short films with all locally made, sourced, produced about Bristols Wildlife and Nature by and with local residents, community, people, volunteers, students and film makers.

We would love for you to join us on the night, to celebrate bristols incredible Nature, wildlife, enviroment, and the amazing local residents, community, volunteers, students, and film makers incredible films.

Including Nikki incredible, beautiful and harrowing film about the battle to save Yew Tree Farm and Catherine plight, fight to save the farm and legacy at the farm in Last Working Farm.

Green BS13 Climate & Nature Group Free Film Screening
Thursday January 29th
7.00 - 10.00 pm (19.00 - 22.00 pm)
Zion, Bishopsworth Road, Bristol, BS13 7JW

Donations welcome to both Green BS13 Climate and Nature Group and Zion to help us keep making a difference in the community.

Kind Regards

Luke, Green BS13 Climate and Nature Group & Zion

30/12/2025

Hey Friends of Valley Walk,

🎅❄️🦌🛷🎁Merry Christmas Friends of Valley Walk and to all of your families 🌲🍽🍷🧸 ☃️🤶

And 🎉🕛🍾Happy New Year🥂🎊 to you all, I am thoroughly looking forward to next year with you all and the Friends Valley Walk group and some of the tasks in 2026 from Litter Picks, Bramble Bashing, Spring Clean in the Park, Hedge Planting, Wildflower planting, River Cleans, Path Clearing and many more events for Nature, Wildlife, the Park, local residents and the local Community to name a few many other events and active days in the Park.

Thank you to you all for volunterring in the park and our local community and for your time, effort, resources, skills, contacts, networks, commitment, dedication, contributions and work in helping maintain Valley Walk and engaging with the local residents and community. 🙏🏻🙏🏽🙏🏿

Here's to more of this in the New Year. 💪💪🏽💪🏿 Stronger together 👍🏻👍🏽👍🏿

If you would like to volunteer in Valley Walk with the Friends of Valley Walk, find out more or collaberate please do get in touch.

Kind Regards

Luke, Radek & the Friends of Valley Walk

15/12/2025

Hey Friends of Valley Walk, Hartcliffe and Withywood Residents and local Community,

We will be in the Valley Walk Community Orchard doing some formative prunning of the young trees and likely some mulching and weeding around the Valley Walk Orchard with Janine from Forest of Avon tomorrow between 10.00 am - 15.00 pm (may finish earlier depending on how quick we get the tasks done).

You would all be very welcome to join us for as long or short as you are able to if you would like too.
Work at your own pace, and there will be Tea, Coffee and light basic refreshments too.

It's a great way to learn the basics of formative pruning and prunning basics ready to help with the Hartcliffe Millennium Green and Willmott Park Orchards in January.

Every little helps and many hands make light work.

We will be doing formative pruning, some weeding and mulching round the bases of the orchard trees.

There is a link to book into the session via eventbrite below.

Kind Regards

Luke, Janine and Friends of Valley Walk

Community Orchard Workday: Fruit Tree Pruning

Date: 16 dec • 10:00

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/community-orchard-workday-fruit-tree-pruning-tickets-1848212997829?aff=ebdsshother&utm_share_source=listing_android&sg=71bf12c5b7b62a2adf881d3282cb9df0e0cd25af2287e4373bf2c1e443d0c8f24b0c8ae3d5221ce615a7fe3bb863a981857ef39c276c6ce359bca87106e98d76352a8a43e8ec5abff4e5e206108c

15/11/2025

Friends of Valley Walk, resident's and community of Hartcliffe and Withywood, South Bristol and even Bristol,

Afternoon, Leanne Reynolds, The Daniel Baird Foundation, Samantha, Shane from Spacemakers - Hartcliffe, Bristol and Hartcliffe Community Centre and Hartcliffe Football Club (HFC) have collaborated to set up a Free Bleed Kit Training Session at Hartcliffe Community Centre on Wednesday the 19th November, doors open at 6.00 pm, Training session starting at 7.00 pm.

The session is FREE and open to anyone who wants to learn how to save a life with basic first aid and how to use a Bleed Kit, how to respond and protect a loved one, another member of the community or young person and how to protect and keep your community if the unthinkable happens.

Don't miss this amazing opportunity! 🌟

Leanne, founder of Daniel Baird Awareness Bless Training, will lead the session. ( Wednesday 19th November, Hartcliffe Community Centre)

Details:
@ Hartcliffe Community Centre
Doors open 6pm, session starts 7pm

Kind Regards

Friends of Valley Walk

02/11/2025

Evening Friends of Valley Walk, BS13 Hedgehog Project followers, Residents of Hartcliffe and Withywood and the local community,

🧚‍♂️🧙‍♀️🧜‍♀️👻😁 Happy Halloween and Fright Night! 👽🤡🦸‍♂️🧛‍♂️🧟
I hope you and the kids had an amazing night dressing up, decorating your house/ windows and gardens as well 🍬🍫trickle treating 🍭 and embracing the spooky, Samhain, and Day of the Dead Spirit.

I want to talk to you about your lovely, creative, spooky and frightful carved Pumpkins and Pumpkin Latterns. That add so much to the Halloween evening.

Sadly a lot of pumpkins are irresponsibly discarded and dumped in Green and Blue Spaces, Parks, and Nature rich spaces within the community after Halloween without any thought for or thinking it will benifit wildlife sadly for most UK wildlife this isnt the case.

Pumpkin isn't a native natural food source for any UK wildlife and whilst a few table spoons can be useful to small few speacies of native UK wildlife to a lot of wildlife particulary Hedgehogs it's actually a strong laxative and has the effect on them causing diarrhea and vomiting at a time they have just likely had a potentially second brood of hoglets, and all are trying to find the last possible morsels of food whilst preparing to hibernate over winter.
🦊🦔🐿🐁🐰🐦🐦‍⬛🦎🦡🐾

Sadly this dihorea and vomiting can cause severe dehydration, malnutrition, and even starvation leading to the death of many hedgehogs particualry small young hedgehogs/ hoglets born this year. 🦔☠️🍊🤢🤮💩💀

So please either use your Pumpkin 🍊 remains to make something beautiful in the kitchen like a autumnal spiced Pumpkin soup, Pumpkin Pie for thoose of you with a sweeter tooth, put it in your food bins or donate your Pumpkin remains for composting securely out of reach of Hedgehogs at either Hartcliffe City Farm at the Haybale Cafe or at the Heart of BS13 Roundhouse entrances in the signed pumpkin donation bins/ baskets on Crosscombe Drive and or Belgrave Crescent. 🙏

Let's protect our local Hedgehog population, and the beautiful local wildlife and feed our compost piles instead.

Kind Regards

Luke and the BS13 Hedgehog Project and thank you for the collaboration with Heart of BS13, Heart of BS13 Flower Farn and Hartcliffe City Farm for protecting Hedgehogs and local Wildlife.

28/10/2025

Hey Friends of Valley Walk, Hartcliffe and Withywood Residents and Community, Come Join us at Heart of BS13 for a cosy family evening at the Roundhouse this Bonfire Night, toast a marshmallow over the fire, and watch the fireworks go off across the city from our beautiful outdoor space.

*What's on*
- Hot food (meat and veggie hotdogs) will be on sale, as well as hot and cold drinks and sweet treats.
- Lantern-making for children included in ticket price
- Sparklers and marshmallows will be on sale (please bring gloves)

*Cost:* £1 (children aged 2 and under go free).

Children must be supervised at all times by a responsible adult.

*Questions?* Please email [email protected] or call Kirsty on 07591636490.

*Book your space*
https://www.heartofbs13.org.uk/event/bonfire-night/

Hope to see you there. Please share ❤️

Join us for a cosy family evening at the Roundhouse this Bonfire Night, toast a marshmallow over the fire, and watch the fireworks go off across the city from our beautiful outdoor space.

What's on
- Hot food (meat and veggie hotdogs) will be on sale, as well as hot and cold drinks and sweet treats.
- Lantern-making for children included in ticket price
- Sparklers and marshmallows will be on sale (please bring gloves)

Cost: £1 (children aged 2 and under go free).

Children must be supervised at all times by a responsible adult.

Find out more and book your space:
https://www.heartofbs13.org.uk/event/bonfire-night/

Hope to see you there. Please share ❤️

17/10/2025

Hey Friends of Valley Walk, Hartcliffe and Withywood Residents and community,

Just a reminder the Ignite Plan Survey Presentation Event is on tomorrow (Saturday 18th Oct) 10.45 am - 16.00/ 4.00 pm at Merchants Academy.

We would love to see as many local residents and members of the community there as possible.

A free lunch will be provided to all attendees, and free cake in the afternoon plus ample tea and coffee.

Come see the results of the survey, have your say and be involved in the next step of the Ignite Plan.

Kind Regards

Luke & The Ignite Plan