A Welcome Place To Be

To make this green space accessible to all of the community whatever age they may be. Make this beautiful place welcoming and become an integral part of the community.

We called the project A Welcoming Place to be because that’s what we want to achieve for all of the community. With the support of the LAC, Ranger service (Parks & Countryside) and Housing. We will endeavour to bring back the wildlife that has been lost over the past decades by educating children of all ages to join in with making things like Bug houses, Hedgehog houses where they are safe to hibernate for the winter, wildflower meadows for bees to thrive. 

We will add benches and consult people about where they should be placed so that people can sit down and look out on this beautiful wildlife site and take in some fresh air which is brilliant for everyone’s wellbeing. We put in two benches at least three years ago and they have not been vandalised in anyway. This is quite a big site so a couple more benches would be wonderful. 

Ryan Atkin is the local Ranger for Tongue Gutter and he loves this site for many reasons including the people of this community and he is always keen to encourage them to learn about the animals the trees and the plant life etc by doing activities with local school children (Hartley Brook Primary being the closest) such as building the Bug hotels and making safe places for the insect life which is vital for the birds. Ryan gives us one day per month in Tongue Gutter to do all sorts of things so we would use this time wisely.

 Litter picks are a regular thing in Tongue Gutter especially by myself, I will be doing a questionnaire whilst out and about to find out what locals would like to see and inviting them to the activities we will plan on the back of this. We will need a notice board where we can let the community know what’s going on especially in the school holidays. Below are the type of activities we would love to do Bug Hotels Hedgehog Houses Tree and plant recognition walks Tree planting Wildlife Walks Stream clean up Create wildlife meadows Spring bulb planting There are so many things that we can do to improve our green spaces and hopefully pass on the knowledge to the next generation.