As a result of some of your responses in the Parish Plan questionnaire suggesting a need to clean up our river, we are establishing a working relationship with BART (bristol avon rivers trust) to help us protect and improve our river.
BART is a community-led organisation which aims to deliver education, land and river management advice, and practical river restoration work in the Bristol Avon catchment. Through promoting an ecosystem-based approach, BART aims to reconnect communities to their rivers, and help river lovers and users better appreciate, conserve and improve their local rivers and streams.
To find out more about what BART can help with, you can visit their website: www.bristolavonriverstrust.org
Some of the things BART does:
BART BEACONS - an opportunity to be part of this network
BART Beacons are the way of establishing a community of interest groups across the catchment who feed back news from across the catchment like old fashioned radio masts! They will be the "eyes and ears" of BART identifying problems or opportunities on their local stretch of river or stream. BART will share this information with other Beacons and look for opportunities to bring these together on logical projects to improve the health of the river.
Local knowledge and interest is all you need to become a beacon; whether you are an individual who has something to share, or one of our community interest groups - they would love to hear from us; and we, the community of Shoscombe as a whole, will benefit from an improved river amenity.
To contact BART you can email them at: info@bristolandavonriverstrust.org
or Telephone: Ian Monks 0747 626 2707
The local fishing group Wellow Brook Flyfishers also carries out much work on the Wellow Brook, and they report on this activity on their website which you can find by clicking here
You can also find out about how they hope to introduce water voles to Wellow Brook by clicking here: Water Voles
BART is a community-led organisation which aims to deliver education, land and river management advice, and practical river restoration work in the Bristol Avon catchment. Through promoting an ecosystem-based approach, BART aims to reconnect communities to their rivers, and help river lovers and users better appreciate, conserve and improve their local rivers and streams.
To find out more about what BART can help with, you can visit their website: www.bristolavonriverstrust.org
Some of the things BART does:
- Improves riverside and in-channel habitat to increase diversity and numbers of fish, flora and wildlife.
- Brings people together who have a common interest in a health functioning river system.
- Identifies funding sources and matching them to known local needs.
- Collaborates in or managing river-based improvement projects
- Provides education about the ecosystem approach to protecting and improving our rivers
BART BEACONS - an opportunity to be part of this network
BART Beacons are the way of establishing a community of interest groups across the catchment who feed back news from across the catchment like old fashioned radio masts! They will be the "eyes and ears" of BART identifying problems or opportunities on their local stretch of river or stream. BART will share this information with other Beacons and look for opportunities to bring these together on logical projects to improve the health of the river.
Local knowledge and interest is all you need to become a beacon; whether you are an individual who has something to share, or one of our community interest groups - they would love to hear from us; and we, the community of Shoscombe as a whole, will benefit from an improved river amenity.
To contact BART you can email them at: info@bristolandavonriverstrust.org
or Telephone: Ian Monks 0747 626 2707
The local fishing group Wellow Brook Flyfishers also carries out much work on the Wellow Brook, and they report on this activity on their website which you can find by clicking here
You can also find out about how they hope to introduce water voles to Wellow Brook by clicking here: Water Voles