Step, Ride, Thrive Active Travel Project

22/05/2026

FREE Walk & Waddle sessions! | Baby & Toddler Nature Gathering (0–7) 🌿

Six dates available - Sat 23rd, Sun 24th, Tues 26th, Thurs 28th, Sat 30th and Sun 31st May! All from 9.45am - 11.30am.

Join these free sessions in the sunshine this half term - a gentle, pram‑friendly outdoor experience for parents & young children to slow down, connect, and explore nature together!

✨ Join a Walk & Waddle session and connect!
🎟️ Free tickets available here: https://www.eventbrite.com/cc/walk-waddle-4838737

Free Walk & Waddle | Baby & Toddler Nature Gathering (0–7) 🌿

Come and join us in the sunshine this half term - a gentle, pram‑friendly outdoor experience for parents & young children to slow down, connect, and explore nature together!

✨ Join us and connect!
🎟️ Free tickets available here: https://www.eventbrite.com/cc/walk-waddle-4838737

22/05/2026

🌿 🚌 Take the 668 bus and explore the Avalon Marshes! 🦅 🚶

You can hop on the bus from Street and Glastonbury, straight to the Avalon Marshes Centre.

Come for a peaceful walk around the nature reserves, a cuppa or lunch at the café, a workshop, or a browse around the beautiful craft gallery.

✅ Weekday service - running until 31st August 2026
✅ Arrives right at the Avalon Marshes Centre
✅ Just £3 each way – part of the national fare cap
✅ From 1 April 2026, use your bus pass on all journeys to and from the Avalon Marshes Centre
✅ A perfect low-cost trip out!
✅ Timed to connect with the Level 1 Health Walk, which takes place every other Thursday at 10am. A great way to be active, meet new people and connect to nature. The walk takes around 45 mins.
📣 Tell your friends and networks, give it a try, and help us spread the word!
📝 If you have used this service to the Avalon Marshes - or are planning to - please complete our short survey 👇
https://tinyurl.com/668Bus

21/05/2026

🪱 🌊 Come and find out about the mysterious eel at our FREE talk tonight! The talk will be given by Vanessa Becker-Hughes from The Somerset Eel Recovery Project (SERP).

Eels are notoriously elusive and endangered creatures that are native to the Somerset Levels. They spend many years living in rivers and lakes, and when ready to breed, they travel 6,000 miles to the Sargasso Sea to spawn a single time.

The European eel faces many hazards throughout its life cycle, including changes to ocean currents caused by climate change, pollution, poaching and obstacles in waterways such as dams and weirs.

Vanessa will also share details about a new nature mapping project along the Brue and Axe, which the The Somerset Eel Recovery Project (SERP) has launched in partnership with the Brue CREW.

🗓️ Thursday 21st May 2026
🕖 7 - 8pm (arrival from 6.30pm)
📍 St Dunstan's Health & Wellbeing Centre, Glastonbury BA6 9EL
👉 Book here:

Join us in person to chat about Somerset’s endangered eels and learn how you can help their recovery! Arrival from 6.30pm for a 7pm start.

20/05/2026

"Wherever you are, at any moment, try and find something beautiful. A face, a line out of a poem, the clouds out of a window, some graffiti, a wind farm. Beauty cleans the mind."
Matt Haig

Mark Langley - Top of Longwalls Lane, b.1954.

20/05/2026

🦋 🌿 Our FREE talk on Butterflies of Avalon and the Poldens takes place this evening, Wednesday 20th May, in West Pennard.

Peter Bright from Somerset Butterfly Conservation will give an illuminating talk about species that can be found across the Avalon Marshes and Polden Hills, including the rare Large Blue, Adonis Blue, Dark Green Fritillary, Green Hairstreak - and more than 30 other species.

You can also find out how to get involved with local, volunteer-led butterfly monitoring.

Join us for this fabulous presentation, with time for questions and conversation.

🗓️ Wednesday 20th May 2026
🕖 7 - 8pm (arrival from 6.30pm)
📍 West Pennard Village Hall, Newtown Lane, BA6 8RT.
👉 Book here: eventbrite.com/e/1988278999009

18/05/2026

🌿 🌊 Friends of Bride's Mound are hosting a nature mapping and wellbeing event on Saturday 23 May from 11am - 2pm.

The event will provide an opportunity to help with a new nature mapping project along the River Brue, initiated by the Brue Crew and Somerset Eel Recovery Project Recording nature along a river acts like a living snapshot, capturing the dynamic interactions between land, water and life. It empowers communities and decision makers to nurture these vital ecosystems with insight and care.

During the session at Bride's Mound there will also be a guided activity led by Somerset Wildlife Trust, supporting people to experience the wellbeing benefits of connecting with nature, through the ‘5 pathways to nature connection’. The pathways include sensory contact, emotion, beauty, meaning and compassion.

Bride's Mound features the archaeological remains of St Brigid's Chapel, considered one of Britain's earliest Christian sites. There is evidence of human use of this site from Neolithic times, through the Iron Age, the Roman period, the early Saxon era up until the dissolution of Glastonbury Abbey in 1539. Bride’s Mound has long been a place of pilgrimage, and is a peaceful spot for contemplation. The Friends of Bride's Mound aim to protect the site, restore biodiversity and provide a sanctuary for visitors.

Contact Miranda Bruce to book your place - [email protected]

18/05/2026

Discover Nature fortnight officially starts today!

We invite you to get involved with FREE events and activities, and enjoy active travel around our beautiful Avalon & Poldens landscape, whether by walking, cycling, wheeling or using the 668 bus to the Avalon Marshes. Adults and children are also invited to get involved with our photography competition!

Today, there is a Level 2 Health Walk and a bee themed poetry group taking place in Street, a women's walk at Coombe Hill Wood and an active travel forum for residents in Glastonbury. We will also be sharing information about Discover Nature fortnight at a health and wellbeing event at St Dunstan's House in Glastonbury this afternoon.

For full details of the 38 events and activities taking place over the fortnight, visit our website: stepridethrive.org/discover-nature-fortnight

What do you think about Discover Nature fortnight? Please help us by answering 5 quick questions! forms.gle/k7r6a7W5ZwH75w6n8

Step, Ride, Thrive is a project led by 23 parishes in the Avalon and Poldens area, with funding from Somerset Council and SALC - Community Health & Wellbeing

17/05/2026

Let’s get the library humming & buzzing!
Our Poetry Group is happening at Street Library on Monday 18th May, 1pm–2pm.
Bring a poem you adore, create your own buzzing masterpiece, or relax and enjoy the sweet sound of poetry in a friendly group.
Perfect for bee lovers, poetry lovers, and anyone who enjoys a cosy community moment