Community ownership would open the area up for recreational use, encourage biodiversity, provide numerous educational opportunities and amenity.
Anyone can become a shareholder and have a say in decision making. We will be carrying out a broad consultation to ensure we understand the wishes of the whole community.
The initial priorities are likely to be to:
• Maintaining and enhancing community access
• Supporting nature recovery, with the pastureland returning to meadows rich in flowers and insects. This is likely to involve conservation grazing with a small herd of cattle
• Ensuring the woods and riverbank are well maintained
• Using the meadows and river banks for education and volunteering
• Exploring options like a community orchard, a spring fed pond and a circular walking route
• Securing grants to enable the land to continue to be managed for the benefit of nature and the local community.
Rodborough Fields and Frome Banks Preservation Group
To help preserve this area of natural beauty, as a green space for wildlife and for the people of Stroud.
Offline donations
We can also receive cheques payable to:
Rodborough Fields and Frome Banks Preservation Group
which can be delivered to the Rodborough Community Hall, Butterrow West, Rodborough, Stroud GL5 3TZ
Please consider completing a Gift Aid declaration, which can increase the value of your donations by 25% if you are a UK resident taxpayer.
