Stroud Valleys Project - “No Newts is Bad Newts”

Through the Gloucestershire Biodiversity Partnership’s “No Newts is Bad Newts” project, SVP was contracted to establish the extent of Great Crested Newts in Eastington parish. Nine ponds were surveyed during June 2008 with the threatened newt being identified in two of the ponds surveyed. Having identified the existence of the newts, pond restoration works were carried out by SVP to allow in more light and create more open water thereby improving the habitat.

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Eco Shop

Reopening April 2021

Our opening hours will be as follows:

Monday to Friday 10.00—16.00

Saturday 9.30—14.00

We look forward to welcoming you back through our doors - we’ve missed you.

Please be sure and keep to the advice at the shop concerning face coverings and hand sanitiser .

Until further notice, we can only accept 3 people in the shop at any one time.

We will be accepting recycling but it must be pre-sorted and we can only accept one carrier bag of each type per customer.

We look forward to welcoming you back to our shop - thank you so much for your continued support.

Our Volunteers Say

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I've found the projects inspiring and I've developed skills I didn't know I had, to the extent that I am now able to find employment in new fields.

I will always be grateful to the staff and volunteers at Stroud Valleys Project for their encouragement and warm support.

Being involved with Stroud Valleys Project has been a great experience. I've enjoyed and learnt so much through various courses and volunteer projects I've worked on.

Thank you all at SVP for the help and support you have given me in the last couple of years, which has helped me to get my foot back on the ladder in the world of work.

I loved the course (Veg Growing), it was the highlight of my week

“Often I feel so bad I don’t want to do anything but after coming here, working with my group in the sunshine, I always feel more cheerful. They are my friends now.”

“Volunteering with SVP is the best thing that happened to me in my life.”

“I never thought I would get into gardening and growing stuff, but through all my work with SVP I have learnt to really appreciate nature.”

“We get lots of work done – and we have a laugh!”

“Our group is like pieces from a jigsaw puzzle. Everybody mucks in and does what they can, and the job gets finished in no time.”

“When somebody has a bad day, the others in the team make them feel better.”

“I learn lots of interesting things and I feel useful.”