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Woodland Wild Flowers - Progress and Future Aims
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Woodland Wild Flowers - Progress and Future Aims
Location: Bedfordshire
The project was initially delivered in-house, with in-kind support from the Wildlife Trust providing ecological expertise and BTCV providing community involvement and practical event management expertise.
Since 2003, the project has been delivered using the expertise of the Community Tree Trust, a daughter charity established to undertake very similar work but focussing on native tree and shrub seeds as opposed to wildflower seed.
Due to the similarity between these activities, the Woodland Wildflower project has benefited significantly from harnessing the existing infrastructure of volunteers, schools, and landowners established by the Community Tree Trust’s activities. This arrangement has also provided efficiency savings and proven to be more cost effective.
Notable highlights during delivery of the project to date include:
· The involvement of over 300 school children in woodland wildflower seed collection and sowing events
· Working with 38 individuals from HSBC’s international graduate training programme to use the Woodland Wildflower project as the source of local community-based environment project that can help deliver HSBC’s corporate social responsibility objectives. The graduate trainees were drawn from across the globe, including Thailand, India, Indonesia, China, Malaysia and North America.
· Successfully establishing ‘drifts’ of local provenance bluebells in areas of mature woodland/scrub within the 250ha Millennium Country Park at Marston Moretaine. These will take 5 years to produce their first flowers, but are establishing well due to the excellent work of project volunteers.
The project hopes to extend its work into 2007 to allow it to improve more woodland and involve even more members of the community.
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