Our Delivery Report
Funded on 20 November 2020 | Delivered on 28 September 2021
£10,176
RAISED
33
BACKERS
29
DAYS TO FUND
BIGGEST PLEDGE
£4,050
From Worcestershire County Council
60
people have visited this project!
Lucy Graham donated £5
2 Part-time jobs protected
500 Hours volunteering opportunities
120 Classes provided
400 m2 of public or community space improved
17 Volunteers involved
4 Community events created
02 October 2021
Worcester mums who want to tackle loneliness through woodland retreat
Worcester NewsBramblewood has undoubtedly helped people to get through the last 18 months. For some of our volunteers and visitors, it was the only place where they could see other people, so it became a really important space.
40 New items of equipment provided
21/12/21 - 21/12/21
Bramblewood Celebration
4 New part-time jobs created
More about our impact
The environment
We have helped highlight the importance of small pockets of wild in the city by welcoming people to spend some timeless time a tiny but vital and biodiverse woodland haven. We have seen a direct increase in the biodiversity this summer as a direct result of our management of the land, species such as golden rod, Michaelmas daisy, teasel and plantain have thrived where they were once kept at bay by the dark shroud of bramble. Fueled by the ability to now welcome adults in to Bramblewood, we have begun to clear an area dominated by bramble and overgrown grape vines, to become a therapeutic Forest Garden, which will support a wide range of plant species and create new habitats on the land.
The local economy
We have begun running workshops as planned, some of those planned are across days workshops which will bring people to the city to use hospitality venues.
Volunteering, jobs & education
We are now able to employ 3 local people on a sessional basis and are applying for funds for a long term project which will offer part time employment to 2 people, hopefully for 3 years. We have secured a contract with the local authority for offering forest school as an alternative provision, and are working hard at partnerships with the Recovery College and Worcestershire's Social Prescribing Team.
Arts, culture & heritage
New Opportunities Worcester NHS have been bringing their art group to Bramblewood for weekly craft and art sessions. Local group, Creating Links have begun coming regularly to Bramblewood. We have interest from local people to start an informal singing group and enquiries from a local folk musician to offer some folk sessions in the wood.
Activity, health and leisure
All groups coming to Bramblewood are automatically pulled into a timeless, healthy, grounding and engaging environment. Much of the meaningful activity that people engage in is physical (e.g. building dead hedges means finding wood to make stakes, using a saw and an axe to fashion the stakes, banging them into the ground with a maul, brashing and cutting back brambles to fill the hedges, etc.) We have seen autumnal harvesting and jam making, community cook ups on the fire, impromptu storytelling and singing, watercolour work, sketching, fire wood preparation, tree thinning, coppcing and layering hazel to create more trees. The list goes on.
