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What it is
"Katherine's Wood" in Lavender Hall Park, Balsall Common, began as a fundraising project in 2006 to plant trees in memory of a local young lady who was lost tragically in March 2006. The wood was planted in two phases with a variety of local native trees and shrubs, over 2100 in all. Our club adopted the project and was successful in obtaining a Big Lottery "Breathing Places" award, thus doubling the original size of the project and helping create a more or less continuous wildlife corridor across the Park. In 2008 Solihull Council was able to declare the Park a Local Nature Reserve and in July 2009 the Park was officially opened as a Nature Reserve by Chris Packham (BBC Springwatch presenter), along with the Mayor of Solihull, Cllr David Bell and our Meriden MP, Caroline Spelman.
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