Sustainability Stories – nature recovery projects
Hinksey Trail Regeneration – using funds from various sources including the Vale’s Climate Action Fund – have created a boardwalk at Hinksey Heights Nature Reserve to allow visitors access without damaging habitats.
Goosey Parish Meeting and Goosey Green Limited – a project to reinstate Goosey mere and create a wildlife habitat with reedbed plant succession and native species planting. The intention is for the mere to once again be a natural feature of the village. Funding from Climate Action Fund.
Earth Trust have had funding from South Oxfordshire via Trust for Oxfordshire’s Environment Fund for fencing and tree planting to restore a neglected hazel coppice in the SSSI in Little Wittenham Wood to replace lost trees and protect the area for the biodiversity. More info here.
Above – the Howe Trust has had funding from South Oxfordshire via Trust for Oxfordshire’s Environment Fund for the creation of new ponds and butterfly banks at the Howe Trust Community Ponds Project in Wheatley.
Also Benson Parish Council also applied to TOE for hedge cutting and willow pollarding to create a community green space at Cuckoo Pen in Benson and the replacement of the Millbrook Mead walkway through an important marsh/wetland habitat to allow public access whilst protecting the wetland.
A new community orchard has been established in Cuddesdon and Denton, with support from the Trust for Oxfordshire’s Environment (TOE) and South Oxfordshire District Council. The parish council created this with help from more than 30 volunteers, planting 89 fruit trees including – apple, pear, plum, greengage, damson, apricot and cherry across half an acre of rough grasswith the aim of providing a new habitat for insects and birds, as well as an annual crop of free fruit for the village.
Find out more about the TOE environment fund here
Contact us - Climate and biodiversity team
Vale of White Horse District Council
Abbey House
Abbey Close
Abingdon
OX14 3JE
