We’ve created resources based on everything we’ve learnt about rewilding in urban communities. If you’d like to get your neighbours involved in nature action, rewild your verge or learn more about Really Wild Lockleaze, you’ve come to the right place.
Really WIld Lockleaze: Our First Three Years Report
In our first three years, we’re proud to have demonstrated the amazing potential for community-led urban nature projects. We’ve had lots of successes and learnt lots of lessons, which we’re sharing with you in this report.
Planting Trees in Urban COmmunities
Through the Really Wild Project, local residents have planted hundreds of trees on urban land, and we’ve learnt lots about the process.
Creating Meadows in Urban Communities
Through the Really Wild Project, local residents have created beautiful meadow patches on all kinds of land. Find out how we did it.
Wild streets of lockleaze: how to green your neighbourhood
Do you have a roadside verge or housing green near where you live? Transform it with this how-to guide, including a step by step process to engage your community and plan your habitat, advice on monitoring your wildlife, and our top tips.
Video Resources
We also have lots of videos on wildlife gardening- from in-depth ‘design and do’ guides for bigger projects like ponds, to quick tutorials on bulb-planting, tree-planting and more.
Huma and Noman’s experience
Huma and Noman Shaikh are Really Wild ‘Greens Champions’, working with their neighbours to rewild their housing green. Read about their experience of the project, and inspiring attitude to setting an example and showing up for our community.
Rewilding Our Community
‘Rewilding Our Community: How Lockleaze Neighbourhood Trust has changed by being involved with the Community Climate Action Project‘ is a blog published by Bristol Climate & Nature Partnership.
Read about how Lockleaze Neighbourhood Trust has evolved through creating and enacting our Community Climate Action Plan with our community. Plus, some top tips on setting up your own project.
summary report
This report is from Summer 2025. It includes the amazing impact Lockleaze residents have created for nature, as well as the impact working together for nature has had in Lockleaze.
really wild halfway report
We produced this report in early 2024, as a summary of our progress up to that point. You can read some of our early thinking on working on housing greens, and the positive impacts we were starting to see.