Earlier this year we carried out a survey of our members. Thanks to everyone who took part. All the responses were positive about the work that BEG currently do. The key findings from the survey were:
Respondents want BEG to run more led walks (although not necessarily starting at 10am). Since the survey, we have run bat walks and led walks round all of our survey sites. We will continue to do this particularly over the summer months.
To run work parties at different times and on different days. Our main work parties will still be on the third Saturday of each month, but we will look at changing the timings depending on the nature of the events. We will also run occasional Thursday work parties when we have specific tasks to do.
To do more to communicate about Binfield’s nature both to local residents in general and to young people in particular. We have started contacting local schools and have a couple of ideas for specific projects that we will be pitching to some of these schools. We have also been invited to talk to the Women’s Institute, the Binfield Garden Club and a local company about out work and will be using these talks to encourage local people to do more for nature.
Survey responses also made specific recommendations related to taking on land to manage, getting more people involved in litter-picking and doing something to have both more dog-friendly and more dog-free areas:
Bracknell Forest and Binfield Parish councils are exploring ideas related to managing land for nature. However, we would love to hear from anyone that owns land in the parish which would be suitable for a nature reserve or similar green-space.
More and more people are getting involved in litter-picking in the parish and beyond. If you would like to join them then please consider signing up to Binfield Parish Council’s sponsor-a-street initiative (https://binfieldparishcouncil.gov.uk/get-involved/).
As dog-related issues are not in the scope of BEG’s work, we have passed the suggestions about dogs on to both councils.
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