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fortunate to have a wide range of habitats around the Parish (woodland, POP IN PLACE NEWS
meadows, heath, streams etc) and it would be good to build up a picture of the
wildlife resources we have in the area.
We wish all our supporters a happy new year! If you have
never attended one of our Community cafes make 2024

Souls Moor Ponies the year you come along you will be very welcome.

By the time you are reading this, the ponies will have no doubt left Souls Moor for
their warmer and drier winter quarters. The ponies will hopefully return late spring There was a Merry Christmas at the Pop In
next year. The ponies are there to help with wildlife conservation and restoration. Place
They have spent months munching through the long rank grasses that have built
up during the period Souls Moor was ungrazed. The long rank grasses tend to Thank you to Jagtar at Nisa for funding this event thanks to everyone who made
dominate and out-compete a range of more interesting and valuable wildflowers. the Christmas festivities so special , thank you to Sue Alexander for all her baking
Indeed, we have already seen more wildflowers appearing. With continued for the party and to Peter Gordon who played the man in red. To all the team
summer grazing by the ponies the long vegetation will reduce further and we look who helped in any way at all we had tea for 65 people
forward to seeing a more varied array of plants and wildflowers. Do keep your This demonstrates that the Pop In Place is still bringing the community together as
eyes open for the emergence of spring flowers in the coming months.
we go into our 28 year. We start back on Friday the 5 January
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Conservation Working Parties
Pop In Place
We hope to relaunch our wildlife and environment working party sessions. Over the Community Café at
years a great deal of good conservation work has been carried out by our Bere Regis Village
volunteers at Souls Moor and alongside the Bere Stream walkway. We really need
some new volunteers to help continue and build upon that good work. If you are Hall
interested in sparing just a couple of hours a month to join the working parties Every Friday morning from
please email mike.n.g@outlook.com for more information and we will include you 10 am until 12 noon we run
on our mailing list. a Community Café at the
Village Hall North Street.
Contact Us We offer a warm welcome,
to everyone who walks
If you would like to know more about the work of the Wildlife Group or to be through the door.
included on our mailing list, please contact:
We also welcome new
Tony Bates at tonybates19@gmail.com / 01929 471563 or volunteers to help on our
Mike Gee at mike.n.g@outlook.com / 0775 988 4942. team serving the drinks and helping at events. Also and very importantly to chat
to the people who attend the café’s.
Would you like to make a difference in your community? Then call the Team
Leader Alison Bennett 01929 472023 for more details about how the Pop In Place
changes people’s lives.

Pop In Place Food Crisis Support
The Pop In Place have a Food Crisis Project, if you are struggling and you need

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