Friends of Ham Hill
The Friends of Ham Hill is a charity supporting education, conservation, improvement and community activities at Ham Hill Country Park.
About Us
The Friends of Ham Hill is a registered charity established to support and promote education, conservation, improvement and community activities at Ham Hill Country Park, working in collaboration with South Somerset District Council (SSDC) and local community groups and organisations.
We were initially formed as an unincorporated association (effectively a small volunteer community group). In 2018, we became a registered charity, enabling us to seek larger grants and donations.
The Friends work in collaboration with the SSDC Ranger team to look after and improve the park.
We raise funds for Ham Hill, which helps provide educational and recreational activities, fund tools for the volunteer Rangers and deliver those “extras” (large and small) that fall outside the realm of the core management of the park by South Somerset District Council.
Want to get involved?
There are a number of ways you can support the Friends of Ham Hill…
The Friends of Ham Hill will be at the Stoke May Fayre tomorrow – pop by and the kids can make a fridge magnet to take home or have a go at the Ham Hill Pairs Challenge.
Guess who the Rangers met last Thursday!! It was great to chat to Bill Bailey and help move filming equipment around site for a series he’s filming for Channel 4. Keep your eyes peeled when the programme comes out to see who his special guest was!!! ![]()
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🐝🐝🌼🌸 World Bee Day 🌸🌼🐝🐝![]()
There are 20,000 different species of bee around the world. They live in a hive that can contain as many as 50,000 bees and each tiny bee pollinates between 50 to 100 flowers each time they leave the hive – That’s a lot of pollinating.![]()
Funky Fact: Bees have 5 eyes and 6 legs!![]()
Across Europe, bees and other insects pollinate 80% of all plant species but, despite being so important, are in worldwide decline. In the UK alone, we have lost 13 species and another 35 species are under threat.![]()
So don’t mow the lawn this May, keep the strimmer in the shed, leave the daisies and the dandelions to flourish and sit and watch bees do the amazing job that they do.![]()
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