We would be very grateful if you could pop a green token in the Greener Padbury box next time you are shopping in Waitrose - the number of tokens will dictate what share of the reward we receive. Voting closes at the end of March. This will help us run more free Go Wild in the Woods activity sessions this year. Go Wild has proved to be a very popular and rewarding way of connecting young people and their carers with the nature on our doorstep and we're very pleased to see it

How to say thank you to your special mum? Say it with a forest floor of flowers! This Mother's Day, help us to fill the Millennium Woods with woodland flowers, making it a more welcoming and prosperous place for a greater variety of wildlife.  A donation of £10 in your mum's name will buy a bunch of plug plants - for example, aconites, bluebells, wild garlic, red campion - which Greener Padbury will plant in the newly created clearings, creating a happy habitat for the creatu

Thank you to our volunteers who have helped with recent woodland work in the anticipation of spring. It's given us the opportunity to get a close up look at the woodland habitat and to review our efforts at boosting biodiversity. Hearteningly, there are many signs of life! Here are some of the things we've spotted: Bird boxes are being occupied. We did find evidence of birds nesting, including a blue-tit nest complete with one unhatched egg, and in one box we also found a ca

There's just one space left - make it yours by following the booking link below! Booking is now open for our new programme of Muddy Toddlers forest school playgroup for children aged 18 months to 4 years. Thanks to St Mary’s church and the allotment manager, our forest school enjoys a wonderful location at the Padbury allotment site which offers a real ‘mini’ woodland experience. And thanks to the Co-op Local Community Fund, we are able to continue running these as FREE sessi

We will be doing various woodland maintenance jobs over the weekend - if you'd like to lend a hand, we'd love to see you! We'll meet by the park on Main Street: on Saturday (14th) at 10am and 2pm on Sunday (15th) at 10am All welcome! It would be great to know if you can come: please email Robert at robertmanasse123@gmail.com

We would like to carry out some work in the woods this weekend (14th-15th February). We have some new bird nest boxes (17 of them) to put up, and we would like to clean out and repair the existing boxes where we can. There may also be some cutting back of Blackthorn (sloe) to undertake, and we would like to record sightings of snowdrops and any other emerging plants if we can. It looks as though Saturday will be the better day from the weather point of view, but if you would

Booking is now open for our new programme of Muddy Toddlers forest school playgroup for children aged 18 months to 4 years. Thanks to St Mary’s church and the allotment manager, our forest school enjoys a wonderful location at the Padbury allotment site which offers a real ‘mini’ woodland experience. And thanks to the Co-op Local Community Fund, we are able to continue running these as FREE sessions. We have space for up to 10 families to join us for nature-based activity ses

Go Wild in the Woods is back for February half term! Julie is running two sessions on Thursday 19th February. In the morning (10.30-12), become a Winter Detective , looking at what's happening in nature just now - and then make a craft to take home. In the afternoon (1.30-3) there will be Tarp Shelter Building , from which you can then enjoy a hot drink and something sweet to eat. The sessions fill up quickly so book your FREE space now! Link below... Under 8's need to be acc

The subject of next week's Art Friends classes in the Pavilion are 'Bluebell Woods' . All levels of experience are very welcome - see below for booking details. As for our very own Millennium Woods, more woodland flowers are very much part of the plan, and each year as we progress with our biodiversity efforts, we are seeing a few more. Do keep your eyes peeled next time you're there! In the meantime, why not pick up a brush and transport yourself to a beautiful carpet of blu

It looks like there will be a break in the rain on Saturday, so why not make yourself a big cup of tea, wrap up warm, and settle down in your garden for an hour to take part in the RSPB's Big Garden Birdwatch. Big Garden Birdwatch is the world’s largest garden wildlife survey. Every year, hundreds of thousands of nature lovers like you take part, helping to build a picture of how garden birds are faring. It's really easy to join in - click here to find out more . Greener Padb

We're delighted to have been chosen for this round of Buckingham Waitrose's Community Matters scheme. When you're next doing your shopping, we would be so grateful if you could pop a green token in the Greener Padbury box - the number of tokens will dictate what share of the reward we receive. This will help us run more free Go Wild in the Woods activity sessions this year. Go Wild has proved to be a very popular and rewarding way of connecting young people and their carers w

Come and find Julie in the forest school area of the Millennium Woods between 10.30 and 12 on Sunday 7th December. There will be gingerbread to eat, natural decorations to make and owl pellets to dissect! Don't forget to scan the QR code owls on the way to find out more about wildlife in the woods...

Greener Padbury is getting festive this weekend - first up, we'll be taking part in the craft fair at Padbury Village Hall on Saturday. We've been busy making beeswax candles as well as jams and chutneys. Please do swing by our stall. On Sunday, between 10,30am and 12pm you will find Julie in the forest school area of the Millennium Woods with lots of fun activities (and some gingerbread cookies too). It's a great opportunity to get out for a family walk and discover the new

On a sunny Friday in November the basic structure for the willow den in the playground was completed. During the first hour the GPG volunteers (Stan, Craig, Vale and Kassie), scoured the Millennium Woods to find a couple of hazel trees in need of being coppiced from which we cut around 15 long branches that were used to fashion the basic structure. These were dug into the ground and tied in at the tops which were then pulled together to form a rough dome. Following this, shor

Put on your hats and coats, pack a hot drink, and head out for a stroll around the Millennium Woods to discover our new nature trail! There are ten QR code owls dotted around the trail, ready and waiting to tell you about the wildlife in the woods. Swing by station 7 between 10,30am and 12pm and you'll find Julie running a drop-in Go Wild session. Here you can help Julie decorate for Christmas, learn more about woodland creatures, and enjoy a festive gingerbread cookie! Make

The eagle-eyed among you will have spotted some very charming owls dotted around the Millennium Woods. But they are not just good-looking owls – they are full of wisdom too! They are part of our new nature trail. Each owl has an individual QR code; scan this and it will tell you about a different aspect of our woodland biodiversity project – for example, why moths are important, how we encourage birds, why we are cutting scallops into the rides, who left that dropping there,

We would love to get a clearer picture of the wildlife is in the Millennium Woods as this will help us monitor biodiversity. Can you help us? It is now possible to report what you see and hear in the woods directly to our website. Click here to be taken to a very simple form and let us know what you've spotted on your walk today - did you hear a chiff chaff, or see a ringlet butterfly? Please tell us! Perhaps you'd like to make this a regular activity? Why not team up with a

Our aspiration was that one day, maybe next year we'd scythe the meadow to the south of the woods, but so enthused were we after our September workshop that we didn't want to down tools. And so, 81,5 scything hours later, it is done. It has been a joyful experience - companionable, peaceful and extremely satisfying - and we hope that our efforts will help the establishment of a wildflower meadow. No toads or voles or mice were hurt in the cutting; no fossil fuels required, ju

We are delighted that Muddy Toddlers has been successful in its grant application to the Co-op Local Community Grant scheme! This great news means that we will be able to continue to offer these sessions free to families in 2026. A plea for your help: please could we urge you to go into your Co-op app and choose 'Greener Padbury Group' as your local cause. This will mean that we stand to receive a bigger share of the grant pot which would mean the world to us here at GPG! If