Wild goose space
Wildgoose Space comprises a beautiful Community Room and 3 Work Units in the heart of the Self Build Community, The Yard, Ashley Vale, St. Werburghs, Bristol.
Community
The Yard nestles in Ashley Vale with some great neighbours. As you come through the painted tunnel on Mina Road, The St Werburghs City farm is on our doorstep, with the City Farm Café next door. Allotments stretch from Ashley Down Road right up to Muller Road. On the other side of the valley is the Narroways Nature Reserve. Passing through the second tunnel to the north east you reach Purple Patch, a small holding which offers veg boxes and salads, and walking on (crossing Muller Road) you climb up to Purdown – an extensive and interesting open area.
On site we have a community hall - Wild Goose Space - bookable by residents and non residents alike and a fortnightly? visit from the Oat Float (zero waste food from an electric float).
Find information on all these below plus Ashley Vale Action Group (AVAG), Ecomotive, Neighbourhood Watch and Sims Hall Shared Harvest
If you’d like to add a community group or asset for the Ashly Vale area to this page do send in information here.
St Werburghs City Farm
St Werburghs City Farm has been connecting people to land, nature and food since 1980.
Ashley Vale Allotment Association
The Farm manages 13 acres of community allotments (formerly known as Ashley Vale Allotment Association) that surround the Farm site. It is bounded by Stony Lane, Ashley Hill and the railway line on the side of Gaunt Lane. (Please note: the allotment site on the north side of Stony Lane is managed separately by Bristol City Council.)
Journeyman
Journeyman UK is a registered charity dedicated to supporting boys aged 13 to 17 in discovering their potential as they navigate the choppy waters of adolescence. They enable communities to skilfully take responsibility for supporting their boys and young men become the adults they want to be.
Narroways nature reserve
Narroways Hill is a little grassy & wooded ridge dissected by railway lines lying just North of inner-city Bristol, in the neighbourhood of St Werburghs.
Oat float
Oat Float is a zero waste shop on wheels. They deliver top quality unpackaged food and other household essentials in our gorgeous electric milk float from 1974!
Old library
A 100% volunteer run, vibrant community hub, with a community cafe, library space, workshops & activities, an edible garden, play space and hire room
Purple Patch
Purple Patch is a very own local vegetable box scheme. Vegetable, salad and flower boxes can be ordered from the website and are grown at Watercress Farm at the bottom of Boiling Wells Lane. Can’t get more local than that!
Simms Hill Shared Harvest
Join Sims Hill to enjoy your share of the harvest! Sims Hill Shared Harvest is a pioneering social enterprise growing food for the people of Bristol just four miles from the city centre.
AVAG
Ashley Vale Action Group (AVAG) is a not for profit community action group that was formed in 2000 by residents of the Ashley Vale area of Bristol who were concerned about the corporate redevelopment of land (a former scaffolding yard) in the area.
Ecomotive
Ecomotive is a workers’ co-operative which grew out of the 40-home Ashley Vale eco self build project in Bristol.
Neighborhood watch
Neighbourhood Watch is a grassroots charitable movement. It is the largest crime prevention voluntary movement in England and Wales and has upwards of 2.3 million members. Schemes are run by volunteers across England and Wales supported by volunteer Associations, and by Neighbourhood Watch Network, the national umbrella organisation for the movement.