Green Appleton

Our first Repair Cafe will be held on 2nd November between 10am and 1pm in the Village Hall. Come along and bring things that need mending, or just have a drink and a piece of cake.
See the Repair Cafe section of this site for an online form to let us know about repairs the you'd like done. Paper forms went out in the Advertiser and can be found in the shop.
And new to the site - hedgehogs! People in Appleton have been observing them in gardens, so we have brought together a selection of photos and videos for you to see. You can find it in the Hedgehogs section of the Camera Trap pages.

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.

Welcome to

Green Appleton