Wyming Brook nature reserve officially recognised as one of the country’s best green spaces as it is awarded the coveted Green Flag Award – again! 

It is the 10th time Wyming Brook has received the prestigious Green Flag Award after achieving international quality mark for parks and green spaces

Staff at Sheffield & Rotherham Wildlife Trust are celebrating after receiving another Green Flag Award for their popular Wyming Brook nature reserve. Located on the western edge of Sheffield, Wyming Brook’s babbling streams, mossy crags and sweet smelling pines are a valuable home to wildlife.

Paul Jarman, Nature Recovery Manager (North) for the Trust said “The news that Wyming Brook nature reserve has achieved the accreditation – the international quality mark for parks and green spaces – for the tenth time is testament to the hard work and dedication of the team and volunteers that care for the green space so that visitors and residents alike can enjoy it.”

Keep Britain Tidy’s Green Flag Award Scheme Manager, Paul Todd MBE, said: “I would like to congratulate everyone involved at Wyming Brook nature reserve on achieving a Green Flag Award.

“Wyming Brook nature reserve is a vital green space for communities in Sheffield to socialise, enjoy nature, play and it provides important opportunities for users to improve their physical and mental health.

Paul Todd MBE

We know that staff and volunteers work tirelessly to ensure that it maintains the high standards of the Green Flag Award, everyone involved should feel extremely proud of their achievement.  

It is important that our free to use spaces are maintained to the Green Flag Award standard, making them accessible for all members of the community while ensuring the environment is protected.”

The Award

The Green Flag Award scheme, managed by environmental charity Keep Britain Tidy under licence from the Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government, recognises and rewards well-managed parks and green spaces, setting the benchmark standard for the management of green spaces across the United Kingdom and around the world.

Once set aside for the exclusive use of the nobility when it was part of the hunting and hawking grounds of Rivelin Chase, now everyone can enjoy the abundance of wildlife in this little bit of wilderness, with strolls near the streams or higher, rockier routes with dramatic views of the Rivelin reservoirs and the city beyond.

Discover Wyming Brook nature reserve for yourself: wildsheffield.com/wyming-brook