Really wild campaigns

Hedgehog friendly streets

One of our residents became our first hedgehog champion, helping us to develop the first Hedgehog Friendly Street in Lockleaze - and you could help Hedgehogs on your street too! What did she do?

Find out if you have hedgehogs near you by visiting the big hedgehog map, where you can also map your sightings!

Check out the original hedgehog friendly streets page here, a blog celebrating Bebhinn’s work here and our news page where we advertised the scheme here. We used the fantastic materials from Hedgehog Street for this project, which you can find here.

Newt corridor

We are very lucky to have pockets of populations of endangered Great Crested Newts across Lockleaze and Stoke Park, but creating ponds can increase their feeding/breeding range by joining up these habitats, which in turn means more newts!

We created nine ponds in Lockleaze, and improved the attenuation ponds at Lockleaze Sports Centre as a wetland habitat to encourage biodiversity.

Find the original newt page here, and our blog celebrating the new pond at the Sports Centre here. Plus, watch videos on creating a pond or mini-pond on our videos page. You can still get involved with the amazing habitat at the Sports Centre- check out our Upcoming Events page to find out more.

Citizen science and learning

Throughout the project we’ve shared opportunities on our website and social mediato get involved with citizen science projects, both led by us and self-led. Eric’s monthly bee walks in 2023 and 2024 have gathered a wealth of data, and 300+ people have attended nature learning courses learning about plant ID, land management, FIT counts and more. For the last two years we have surveyed Landseer Avenue, Thornycroft Close and Stanfield Close to understand the impact of our work, and we look forward to doing a third year of surveys this summer.

Find our original citizen science page here.

No Mow May

In 2024 an incredible 124 gardens across Lockleaze participated in No Mow May, totalling 7,080 square meters of lawn left unmown. In fact, Lockleaze registered more sign-ups than the entire rest of Bristol, which had 100 sign-ups according to Plantlife.

Really Wild Lockleaze worked hard distributing hundreds of flyers and speaking to many more residents about the importance of “No Mow May”. We even signed up 67 gardens at The Hub during local election voting! We also offered a £50 prize for signing up to boost engagement- see the winner’s beautiful garden here.

Find our blog written at the time, our promotional video and reel made by UWE student intern Emma