Early Earth Protectors

14/04/2026

Thank you Cllr Declan Baseley for your kind words 💚

🍅 Just to add, in response to a concern expressed around the brambles that were cut back. We didn't cut back any of the thick brambles. We could see everything we were cutting. It was all done very carefully by hand with manual tools - we knew every stem that was cut didn't have birds starting to nest there or nearby.

The land is absolutely covered in brambles and remains majority bramble, so the wildlife still has most of the area.

The young people (and wildlife cameras) have been observing the land for well over a year to see the areas used by birds (and other wildlife) to plan where to create a space for a polytunnel. Young people have been extremely protective of the nature on the land, and will continue to be 💚🌱🐌

13/04/2026

Thank you so much to all of the volunteers who turned up (in the rain!) yesterday, we were blown away by how many came throughout the day.
We now have space to build their polytunnel, which we will be putting up on the 16th / 17th May - volunteers very welcome! More details to be confirmed soon.
We made little shelters for volunteers but they were barely used, everyone just cracked on.
Humungous thank you, and as the young people kept saying - volunteers will be very welcome to the veg they will be growing in it! 🌽🥕🥦

📢 Just to add, in response to a concern expressed around the brambles that were cut back. We didn't cut back any of the thick brambles. We could see everything we were cutting. It was all done very carefully by hand with manual tools - we knew every stem that was cut didn't have birds starting to nest there or nearby.

The land is absolutely covered in brambles and remains majority bramble, so the wildlife still has most of the area.

The young people (and wildlife cameras) have been observing the land for well over a year to see the areas used by birds (and other wildlife) to plan where to create a space for a polytunnel. Young people have been extremely protective of the nature on the land, and will continue to be 💚🌱🐌

11/04/2026

We found lots of inspiration at a Unity in Diversity lunch today, and enjoyed presenting about what we do 💚🌱📢 The food was also delicious! 🍛🍰 Thank you for having us 🧡

29/03/2026

Exciting news for young people in Chippenham

We can’t keep making decisions about young people without the power of youth - by failing to support them, we all lose out as a result.

29/03/2026

💚🌱🪏 Here is the Eventbrite link if you would like to join https://www.eventbrite.com/e/early-earth-protectors-volunteer-day-tickets-1985815177653?aff=oddtdtcreator

15/03/2026

We are inviting young people living in Chippenham to join our youth panel, where you can help make decisions about Early Earth Protectors and our community garden.

If you are aged 11 to 18 and interested in getting involved contact us on here or send an email to [email protected] by the 30th March 🌻🍄 (extended as we forgot to plug it!)

Video created by Aggy, Inara and Mati ✨

09/03/2026

So lucky to have Tom and Riverbank Studios, Chippenham in Chippenham. Here is the link if you want to support the inspiring things going on there www.ko-fi.com/chippenhamsounds

08/03/2026

Have you watched Dirty Business on channel 4? It shows the importance of us all being guardians of our rivers. We love being guardians for our Avon through

We have an exciting event coming up on 30th May in partnership with and which will be all about celebrating our beautiful River Avon, and our commitment to look after it 💦🌊

In preparation for that we have started the process of recording a song with . The first step was using our plantwaves to record some of the plants and fungi next to the river, which will be in the song 🌳🌱🍄‍🟫 Thank you so much Tom for giving us your time today.

If you would like to be involved in our song let us know 🎶

Big thanks as always to
for the funding that allowed us to get the plantwaves 💐

05/03/2026

Save the date - 30.05.2026 💚🌊💚💐

01/03/2026

Are you interested in helping make decisions about Early Earth Protectors and our community garden? If so, we are inviting new young people to join our youth panel.

If you live in Chippenham, are aged 11 to 18 and interested in getting involved, contact us on here or send an email to [email protected] by the 16th March 🌻🍄

09/02/2026

This Saturday 🌻🌼Little shrooms for 4 to 8 year olds, run by Early Earth protectors young people🍄 Eventbrite link in comments