FREE outdoor gym use

Come and use the free gym equipment in Kingsgate and Lilliput Parks:

It is suitable for adults of all ages - including elderly residents.

There are instructions on how to use them, and you can adjust them to fit your fitness level. Please remember to sanitise your hands before and after use, and keep to social distancing.

Lib Dems on Yate Town Council worked with Dodington Parish Council to organise the funding and the two groups of equipment between them. It means people can do gym type exercise for free outdoors. And for those used to taking a walk for fitness, you can add a bit of upper body exercise if you want.

Let us know how you get on with the equipment and anything / anywhere else you think would benefit from this sort of provision.

Birds - Tree planting

Local councils and groups have been working with South Glos on the first year of a major tree planting programme. Across South Glos around 8,250 young trees have been planted. 

In Dodington Parish local councillors worked with residents to find out where they did and didn't want trees. For example they didn't want trees that would block where children play.

In Lilliput Park a class of children from Raysfield School planted 100 trees, helped by South Glos and Dodington staff and by volunteers from Avon Wildlife Trust Southwold Group. Before Christmas the same partnership helped schoolchildren create a wildlife flower area.

South Glos also planted trees near Goldcrest play area and along hedges around Abbotswood School, Kelston Close and near Chedworth. 

In all about 800 trees were planted in the parish. The extra trees will improve air quality and capture something between 0.5 and 5 tonnes of CO2 a year, bringing health improvements for local people.

Many of the trees will  have pollen rich flowers and fruit, ideal for birds (e.g crab apple, cherry and rowan), so there will be definite biodiversity gains.