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On Tuesday 2 June, the Reverend Dr Brutus Green, who joined St Mary Redcliffe earlier this year, will undertake a remarkable charity climb to the top of the church’s iconic spire in support of an ambitious new sustainability project.

Grid Faeries x Ecotricity are the official sponsors of the Main Stage at this year’s Love Saves The Day festival, taking place at Ashton Court, Bristol, on 23–24 May.

An Australian inspired show garden created for the RHS Chelsea Flower Show is to be rebuilt at Longleat this summer beside the safari park’s koala habitat.

Sparks Bristol marks three years of transforming Broadmead with a free city centre celebration of art, repair and sustainable living on Saturday 9 May, highlighting how a former department store has been reimagined as a leading community-led high street project. 

Love Saves the Day is heading into Bristol city centre on Saturday 18 April with a new event taking aim at fast fashion ahead of festival season.

A new, free family-friendly festival celebrating making, mending and wellbeing is coming to Broadmead this April as part of Bristol Business Improvement District (BID)’s Love Bristol, Love Broadmead programme.

Families looking for a standout Easter in Bristol can hop into the extraordinary as Wake The Tiger launches a limited-time experience from Saturday 28 March to Sunday 19 April. 

The Silk Wood Community Planting Project has officially planted some of the final trees in an ambitious three-year effort to restore and diversify woodland impacted by ash dieback. Over 9,000 trees have now been planted at Forestry England’s Westonbirt, The National Arboretum.

The Hall Estate in Bradford-on-Avon has announced a unique collaboration with Moulton Bicycles to launch the new 'The Hall Special Edition' bike. 

Set within a local British woodland, the spectacular African Forest will open at Bristol Zoo Project on 1 April.

Spike Island is excited to announce Spike Green Futures Week: Big Dreaming, in partnership with the Hotwells and Cliftonwood Community Association (HCCA).  

Noah’s Ark Zoo Farm, a Zoo and conservation charity in North Somerset, has celebrated the success of its hugely popular annual Christmas tree recycling initiative.