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As we get older our muscle strength and flexibility can start to decline which WILD WOODBURY
makes keeping as active as possible even more important.
th
Our class can help you improve your overall range of movement and for those March 20 marked World Rewilding Day, a day to join people from around the
who are already active, can be an additional way of maintaining your fitness world to celebrate the successes of and the visions for rewilding to promote
and energy levels. Many of the exercises we do in the class are done seated so nature’s recovery. The theme for this year is #HopeIntoAction, highlighting the
that everyone can join in and our balance exercises are also done with the use of tangible changes that rewilding can make to improve the lives of people and
a chair to help build confidence. We also include some slightly higher energy provide space for wildlife to thrive. Restoring natural processes at Wild Woodbury
exercises which helps to keep our hearts healthy. has led to many wins for wildlife and nature’s recovery. There are so many to
choose from, but to mark World Rewilding Day, we to a look at just some of the
Our classes are subsidised by the Pop In Place funds and are held at the Bere wins at Wild Woodbury.
Regis Village Hall on Mondays from 11am – 11:45am and will be the cost of each
class is £5 By allowing the land to rest, we have seen the vegetation undergo rapid
transformations, which has allowed for a whole host of ecological functions to be
No need to book in advance. Just come along and join in our fun and very restored. The bare ground has been colonised by a diverse flora, and the fields
friendly class, where you will be guaranteed a very warm welcome. support thriving vegetation. The complex vegetation structure provides ideal
habitat for an abundance of small mammals and amphibians. In turn, this has
If you would like more information, please email Lucy Cruickshank at
resulted in birds of prey soaring in our skies, hunting for prey. Allowing the natural
lucy.cruickshank7@hotmail.co.uk or telephone Lyn Simmonds on 01929 471528 processes to take the lead means the dynamic and complex ecological
functions work effectively.

Pop In Place Community Café at Bere Regis Village Hall
Every Friday morning from 10 am until 12 noon we run a Community Café at the
Village Hall North Street.
We offer a warm welcome, to everyone who walks through the door.
We also welcome new volunteers to help on our 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.

Not only are the birds of prey thriving, but many other bird species are now using
Pop In Place Food Crisis Support Wild Woodbury. The site provides areas for birds to forage, breed and shelter.

The Pop In Place have a Food Crisis Project, if During the autumn, we have seen species including nightingale and redstart
you are struggling and you need food during migration. Seed heads from a range of plants including thistles, docks and
please get in touch we have gained teasels are prolific and provide an excellent food source to support birds such as
funding to provide crisis packs for people in goldfinch during the winter. There are treecreeper in our woodlands, hedges
the Parish in a difficult situation. stuffed with yellowhammer, and long-tailed tit flocks cosily huddled together
amongst the scrub.
If you need this service please email in
confidence popinplace@gmail.com and we The number and diversity of invertebrate species supported by Wild Woodbury
will help. Thank you to Gareth Lynam who is after just two years is nothing short of phenomenal! Butterflies have increased in
running this project for us. abundance by over 60% and new species such as silver-studded blues have

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