BISLEY COMMUNITY COMPOSTING SCHEME

SOIL FOOD NATURE

Bring your own bags and a small donation please! Please do not take shreddings- essential for our gorgeous compost mulch

We don’t have any sieved compost available at the moment. Our Jimmy Riddle is on temporary loan to Rodmarton Manor – their staff love him!!

Celebrating our 21st year of community composting

Bisley Community Composting Scheme
Stroud Road Bisley Gloucestershire GL67HH

SAVE THE DATE SATURDAY AUGUST 15 CELEBRATE OUR 21st BIRTHDAY and OUR NEW PEDESTRIAN GATE with Eddie Bailey RyZoPhylia and our SECOND BIOBLITZ

Bisley Community Composting Scheme is a Community Interest Company (CIC) located on the Bisley Chestergate Allotments and Community Orchard site.

It is the first community composting scheme in the Stroud District and is the longest running community composting scheme in Gloucestershire. Bisley Community Composting Scheme is a members-only scheme, and membership is only open to residents of the parish of Bisley-with-Lypiatt. Members of the scheme bring their garden waste to the composting site. Volunteers manage the scheme, with help from some paid local labour. Once composted, the product is offered back to our members, and allotment holders, to be used in their gardens and allotments, thereby returning valuable nutrients to the soil, and helping sequester carbon.

Bisley Community Composting Scheme is a Community Interest Company (CIC)

Membership of the scheme is strictly only available to residents of the parish of Bisley-with-Lypiatt.  Only members can bring their garden waste to the site, but non-members are very welcome to come to buy our bagged, sieved compost on Saturday mornings between 10am and 1pm.  Our bagged compost is £3 per 30 litre bag.  Subject to availability, non-members may also make an appointment to fill their own bags with unsieved compost on a Saturday morning (in exchange for a donation). The community has led this scheme for fifteen years for the benefit of the community. It transforms unwanted garden waste from the community into compost. This excellent, independently analysed ‘soil conditioner’, will then feed the gardens of Bisley, increase local soil fertility, help wildlife, and help produce fine crops. 

Membership of this voluntarily run scheme is only for the residents of the Parish of Bisley-with-Lypiatt.

Bisley Community Composting Scheme is a Members only scheme to take garden waste, ‘hot compost’ it and return it as useable compost to members. It is located on the Bisley Allotments. See contacts for details on location.

News & Events

Led Master Composters July workshop

Lesley (BCCS Director) and Cll. Gill Thomas : Led Master Composters July workshop at Rednock School Dursley introducing “A” level biology students to “Life in the Soil”.
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BCCS 21st Birthday  and BioBLITZ

Bisley Communty Compost Scheme 21st Birthday and Bisley BioBLITZ Chestergate Allotments 15 August 2026 Stroud Road Bisley Gloucestershire GL6 7NH w3w///units.proclaims.chin Soil Food Nature https://bisleycommunitycompostscheme.org.uk Programme 8am Morning bird walk led by GWT 10am Demonstration site: How community composting works, with site organisers, Master Composters, & Garden Organic 11am Allotment Wildlife : Caroline Billingsley Ecologist and allotment holder ...
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EARTH DAY 22 April

Earth Day 2026 takes place on 22 April, under the theme Our Power, Our Planet. Now in its 56th year, Earth Day mobilises over a billion people across 190 countries to take action on climate change. For businesses and individuals alike, it's a call to move beyond awareness and towards community-driven, practical environmental action. What is BCCS doing? ...
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A Collection of Composters meet at BCCS

BCCS hosted a collection of enthusiastic composters this week to mulch over soily things. Workers from Stroud Communty Agriculture, Good Small Farms, Common Soil, Growing Places and Brimscombe and Thrupp Community Composting scheme explored the value of compost, its amazing impact on the health of the soil and growing good food, life in the soil and the biodiversity ...
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BCCS attends Village Fetes

BCCS shared Village Fete Stalls in Bisley, Oakridge and Eastcombe with Bisley Climate Action Network. Composting and community compost helps to keep carbon in the soil, especially if you follow No Dig Gardening practice and so support the aims of BisCAN. BisCAN’s theme in 2023 is Nature Friendly Gardening and composting – with its emphasis on living healthy ...
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