Edinburgh & Lothian Greenspace Trust activities at West Pilton Park

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We have been working with the West Pilton Parklife Friends of the Park group to develop a number of activities this summer. These include family fitness activities starting Thursday27th July which involve hula hopping, fun bootcamp and family yoga sessions.

There will also be a Herbal Garden tidy up and a Herbal Medicine workshop which will involve local families working around the footprint area on Sunday 30th July. A regular bootcamp will be starting on Thursday 17th August and will continue until the October holidays and then run for a further 6 sessions. For more information contact info@elgt.org.uk

Previous planting workshops at the footprint

For more information about West Pilton Park click here

Greenspace Trust: Growing Communities for Health

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Growing Communities for Health

As always, ELGT had a great response to the ‘Growing Communities For Health’ grant scheme when the latest round opened in September of last year. During 2016, we funded twelve projects across Edinburgh and helped to grow the network of community gardens in the city.

Among the twelve community groups receiving grants this year, Newhaven Heritage and The Afro-Caribbean Christian Fellowship started up brand-new garden projects. Grants were also given towards:

  • expenses for volunteers at North Edinburgh Grows and LGBT Health & Wellbeing
  • rebuilding raised beds at Lochend Secret Garden
  • a range of specially-adapted lightweight tools for volunteers at the Garden Globe, Craigmillar
  • volunteer training at the Royal Edinburgh Community Garden (above)

If your community group wants to start a new garden, or is looking for funds to help develop an existing garden, the 2016-17 grant scheme is open now and will close in November.  See here for full details.

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Fiveways to have a wheely good weekend!

It’s all happening on our local cycle paths on Sunday

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Edinburgh & Lothians Greenspace Trust is running an event on the cycle paths in North Edinburgh this coming Sunday (writes ELGT’s Mark Sydenham).

Over the past few months we have been working at Fiveways Junction on some landscaping improvements to make Fiveways a landmark on the cycle paths.

Volunteers from Pilton Equalities Project and MYDG have been hard at work carrying out some woodland management and undergrowth clearance in the surrounding woodlands, opening the area up and cutting back overhanging ivy and branches to make the paths brighter and safer.

Royston Wardieburn Community Centre have been working on a six week project on the cycle paths with one of their groups, which has included learning about the paths and their history, and planting some fruit bushes.

Inv Quest Drylaw 26 April 2015

This coming Sunday, we are inviting everyone to come along and take part. We have fruit and other bushes to plant, as well as other activities. We will have prizes and goodies to give away too!.

To win one of the prizes, we have a little quiz/treasure hunt – to get the questions, turn up to either the Crewe Toll bridge (over Ferry Road) or King George V Park (Canonmills) between 1pm and 1.30pm and then search out the answers on your way to Fiveways (make sure you get there by 1.30!).

Or just come along to Fiveways and join in the activities between 1pm and 4pm.

There is more information here:

http://www.innertubemap.com/2015/04/26-april-fiveways-junction-makeover-day/

and we will be putting more things up on our Facebook page too

(https://www.facebook.com/pages/Edinburgh-Lothians-Greenspace-Trust/192106231309?ref=hl)

We hope to see some of you on Sunday!

Mark Sydenham, Edinburgh & Lothians Greenspace Trust

Telephone 445 4025  

www.elgt.org.uk

The Germinators!

They came, they saw … they planted!

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A top team of green-fingered activists descended on Drylaw on Saturday. Their mission: total germination and much more besides!

The Spring sun was shining and the afternoon was a great success: pictures by Georgia Forsyth Sijpestijn

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And, yes … they’ll be back! Hasta la vista, baby …