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🌿 Open Day & Festival in Nature – Empowering Futures 🌿

Join us for a day of connection, creativity, and community at our Open Day & Festival in Nature! Experience a variety of engaging activities throughout the day, from 10:30 AM to 2:30 PM.​

📅 Date: 11/06/2025
🕙 Time: 10:30 AM – 2:30 PM
📍 Location: Empowering Futures, Bury Hill, Hambrook, Bristol,BS16 1SS 

🎟️ Book your free ticket now on Eventbrite as we have limited spaces

🚫 Please note: There is no parking available on-site. We encourage carpooling or using public transportation to attend.​

🌱 What to Expect:

• Hands-on crafting sessions
• Biodiversity walks and nature tours
• Yoga and Rekik sessions
• Opportunities to connect with like-minded individuals in a beautiful outdoor setting​
• CPR training  

Our sessions run continuously from 10:30 AM to 2:30 PM, so feel free to drop by at your convenience.​

We look forward to welcoming you to a day of inspiration and growth in nature! 🌸

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 We secured planning permission and many of you will be aware we had a structure built. We expected Phase 2 to be completed by now, so we could dedicate our time to delivering a much-needed service to the most vulnerable.

We did our due diligence checks and passed the construction to a competent builder (we were led to believe) who had experience with modular buildings!

Alas, we discovered, this was not the case and our building must be entirely dismantled.

This was and is still both shocking and devastating.

We want to alert anyone, who is having a garden building/modular building constructed to be aware, your building may need to meet Building Regulations. Most will not need Building Regulations, however, this leaves the responsibility for building standards with you.
Please be aware if the builder's guarantee is not underwritten – it is worthless. It just looks and sounds as though you are protected against shoddy workmanship.

We will dismantle our building from 1st May, just 4 of us, with no demolition experience (to keep all our costs down) if you have any building experience and can lend us half a day, that would be much appreciated, in what, is a very stressful situation.  

To try and keep this post positive, we have decided to try and make a Shepherd’s Hut from the building's material, using the wasted wood. If anyone has any ideas of anywhere, we could secure a metal frame for the Shepherds Hut, please feel free to get in touch. This will create a Men in Sheds project.

Our eternal thanks and gratitude go to #gwt, #wessexwater, #networkplus, #bristolwater for their extensive support in installing a rainwater harvesting and water treatment plant when we were in deep despair.

Lastly, to anyone who has personally experienced Cowboy Builders, know you are not alone. We have learned of many similar cases and heard soul destroying stories, we share your desperation and feel your pain. The world can be a cruel place, when some people live by deception and have no moral code, but we will continue to fight, and will be here to support those that need us the most.