Do you live in, work in or love Totterdown? Do you want to help people come together to share food, enjoy some music, and celebrate being part of the Totterdown community? Then come along to Banco Lounge on Friday 12 May at 7pm and help us to plan the Great[…]
Read moreOn Saturday 22nd April, we held a work party at the Orchard and Community Space to play a small part in Earth Day. We had a small group of seven people and managed to make a great impact. We managed to achieve our target of cutting back the weeds along[…]
Read moreThe book is celebrating our wonderfully diverse community by compiling about 50 different stories of people from all over the world, and with different cultures, who now live in Totterdown. We want to know how they arrived here, what they like about Totterdown, and what they have retained from their[…]
Read moreFollowing the success of the work party and awareness of our aims, TRESA were dontated some silver birch saplings. Four of these have now been planted in the SW corner of the site closest to Winton Street. Ideally we would have cleared away the bark chippings and regrassed this area prior to[…]
Read moreOn Saturday 25th March, TRESA held a work party on Zone N to tackle the bushes and start tackling some of our planned aims. We had a great turnout of over 15 people and glorious summer weather shining down on us. We managed to achieve all our aims for the day. Much[…]
Read moreAnother step on the plan has been completed with a cut back of the old bushes along the path through Zone N. This prevents the bushes from growing over the path so makes the area feel more open and safer. The next step is to dig over this strip and plant perennials,[…]
Read moreAs part of the overall plan to improve Zone N we wanted to relocate the grit bin that was dumped in an awkward location on Zone N. TRESA contacted the council to request the bin was moved to the pavement outside the Gym (using the space vacated when a street[…]
Read moreTRESA have been granted £1000 from the Viridor Charitable Donation Committee to help fund our improvements to Zone N. We also hope to get some funding from the Tesco Bags of Help scheme. With this combined amount we will try for match funding from the council (a big ask considering there is so[…]
Read moreThe brick bed in Oxford Street square has now been planted up with a variety of plants and herbs. There is a medicinal herbal theme to the planting and we will soon see many native herbs such as Yarrow [Achellea], Foxglove [Digitalis], Camomile, Angelica, Thyme, Marjoram and Lemon balm sprouting[…]
Read moreTRESA and local residents spent Saturday morning on 5th March tidying up Totterdown as part of the Bristol wide “Spring Clean”. A hardy group of 12 people braved the showers to meet on Zone A where they started litter picking and cutting back the bushes. The group then progressed down the Wells Road,[…]
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