Green Appleton

We are Green Appleton, a small environmental group in Appleton, Oxfordshire. We are officially a Community Action Group, and our aims are to:

• Enhance local habitats
• Maintain biodiversity
• Encourage sustainable living
• Work across generations

which can be summed up as 'Think globally, act locally for nature'.

So far we have:

• Established a wildflower meadow in the south of the churchyard
• Held Green Windmill days for local recycling
• Planted hedgerows to make wildlife corridors
• Planted trees as part of the Queen’s Green Canopy
• Made 2 bug hotels
• Pressed apples
• Held a Big Fun Event in April 2023 and a Big Spring Day in April 2024
• Held 2 Bio Blitzes

Our two most recent projects are what this website is all about. The first is a time-lapse project, where we are setting up photo stations in Besselsleigh Woods for people to take photos from and to upload them onto this website, so that they can be made into time-lapse videos. We have recently won National Lottery Funding for this.

We are also using iNaturalist to get everyone involved in recording the biodiversity of our area. People can take photos of flora and fauna, and use the app to identify them and place then on the map. It develops individual's knowledge as well as creating an overall picture of our environment.