10am: Primrose Bank Workday
Meet at 10am on the east side of Wickwar Road, Chipping Sodbury near the zebra crossing by the entrance to the Frome Valley Walkway.
This workday is to clear brambles to help spring flowers emerge and it has been jointly organised by Sodbury in Bloom and the Southwold Group of Avon Wildlife Trust.
Please wear stout footwear and bring gloves if you have them. If not, we’ll provide gloves that you can keep until the next workday – as a COVID precaution we’re not sharing gloves.
It's really important that everyone in Sodbury feels part of Sodbury in Bloom, so if you have ideas for what you'd like to see, please contact Julia Bernau at: or Pat Fryer on 01454 853736.
If you are interested in supporting Sodbury in Bloom, please click here to download and complete our registration form [.doc] and email it to Julia Bernau at: .
You can also visit us on www.facebook.com/SodburyInBloom.
The photographs on this page are kindly supplied by Rich McD Photography.
Due to Covid, this year's Britain in Bloom competition sadly could not take place.
We were disappointed (as we love a gold medal!) but we decided to carry on and do what we could within Covid-safe rules. Throughout the pandemic the volunteers of Sodbury in Bloom have continued to work when it was safe to do so, watering the containers, putting up baskets, planting bulbs for spring and keeping the town looking good.
In recognition of this we have received a certificate from the organisers of Britain in Bloom. We're very proud of this, as we love a certificate almost as much as a medal!
Well done all our volunteers.
The work on the Community Garden is making good progress thanks to volunteers from Hanson's who have adopted the garden as their project and are providing parties of volunteers which is great news.
The Sodbury in Bloom Team members had already cleared weeds, constructed compost bins and dug a bed to hold all our recycled plants and, now, Hanson's help means that we have a proper path and are ready to go ahead with the hardstanding for the raised vegetable beds.
There is a lot of work to do, but we hope it will give people who don't have any outside space chance to enjoy some gardening.
If you want to know more about the project, or would like to help, please get in touch with us.
Click here to download a plan for the garden [.pdf]
The Sodbury in Bloom Clean Up Team meets several times a month throughout the year to carry out regular litter-picking in and around Chipping Sodbury.
If you have any time to spare you would be very welcome to join us whenever you can, as a one-off, once a month, or more regularly for what is basically a walk and a chat whilst making a big difference to the look of the town and the environment.
For more information telephone Naomi on 01454 314476.
The Sodbury in Bloom group are a small band of volunteers who are keen to welcome newcomers.
They meet 10am on the first Thursday of the month by the clock tower to garden around town.
They are also looking for people who might be willing to keep an eye on their local patch, cutting weeds back or planting bulbs as appropriate.
If you have green fingers and fancy enhancing your local patch, please get in touch.
The Sodbury in Bloom logo, seen at the top of this page, was created by Sophie Press from St John's Mead Primary School as part of a competition.
Sodbury in Bloom is also supported by:
RHS Britain in Bloom is the UK’s largest community gardening campaign, involving hundreds of thousands of people.
As part of RHS Britain in Bloom – and its sister campaign, RHS It’s Your Neighbourhood – volunteers in cities, towns, villages, urban communities and neighbourhoods work together to improve their local environment, using gardening as a tool.
The Sodbury In Bloom committee co-ordinates Chipping Sodbury's participation in Britain in Bloom.
Points are awarded for:
The long term benefit of the Project will be to make a lasting improvement to the community for everyone to enjoy, young and old, residents and visitors as well as for future generations.
To find out more, visit: www.rhs.org.uk/communities
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