Horfield and District Allotment Association, Bristol

The chair of this association remembered a natural pond being on the site when he was a lad. This had disappeared but the land was still too boggy to use for plots. With funding from ARI a new, large (25 x 15m) wildlife pond has been created. It has been left to naturalise and has become a wildlife haven with frogs, toads, butterflies, lots of trees and shrubs (including a date palm, apple trees, hazel and elder), irises and waterlillies. There have even been visits from ducks, but no permanent residents yet. There are six primary schools within a mile of the site and they each endorsed the idea of creating the pond so that they could use it for environmental education. A jetty has been built to allow easy viewing.