Shepreth Wildlife Park: Opening up to local residents
This spring, Susan went to call on the Shepreth Wildlife Park management team to talk about forging better channels of communication between the park and village, for the future. She was delighted to be able to engage in a frank and constructive discussion about safety and noise concerns, public perception and retrospective planning applications, and the role of business ventures in small communities.
Rebecca Willers, Animal Collection Manager, expressed a keen interest in better communication with the village, and the chance to inform residents about some of the park’s voluntary and educational projects. This resulted in the first of a series of newsletters from the Park and distributed to all households, an open evening for residents on May 13th, and the issuing of residents’ discount cards for future visits. The open evening was a great success, seeing some visitors who had lived in the village for decades but had never stepped inside the park, and providing residents with a glimpse of some of the work the park is engaged in, including enhancing wilflife habitats on the River Shep right here at home.
Rebeccas Willers hopes that if residents have any questions or concerns about any aspect of the park’s work, they will get in touch: rebecca.willers@btconnect.com or
rebecca@sheprethwildlifepark.co.uk. Alternatively, please get in touch with Susan and she will relay questions or concerns as appropriate. If for any reason the park’s newsletter did not reach you, or you were not able to attend the open evening but would have liked to, please get in touch.
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