The Children's Garden - The Botanic Gardens Glasgow
Great to be able to report at the start of the year, The Children’s Garden has been shortlisted for another UK wide Award... This is the Future Friendly Award and is supported by the Telegraph and various other companies– see
www.futurefriendly.co.uk/whatIs.php
This is for our contribution to helping to get people interested in locally grown food planting fruit trees to reduce food miles, and for inspiring young people to do their bit for climate change.
We go down to London in March to the awards ceremony... So wish us luck
We have also had coverage in the Scotsman this week – as part of the Greener Scotsman campaign in conjunction with the Scottish Government... And I have been interviewed for a follow up feature for next week sometime..
We are also looking to launch an Edinburgh Children’s Orchard Network in the near future - if any of you know of edinburgh people or groups who'd like to get involved - let me know... I had an initial meeting on Tuesday – and that got us started ... The next meeting is at Edinburgh City Council – 10am - 6th Feb – and it's open for people to come and find out more..
I have also been putting out feelers to see if we could launch the planned Scottish Children’s Orchard at the Scottish Parliament building at Holyrood.
Closer to home..
Winter is a good time to have a break and it’s been good to let the Children’s Garden look after itself, for a month or two... We will need to do some work soon, to get the ground ready for the spring... If we could organise some adult work parties to get some serious preparation done - that would be great.
We are still in the tree planting season – so if you have an enthusiasm for planting fruit trees... Let me know.
We also need to set the programme of events for the coming year... Ideas very welcome
We have been offered the chance to use the super sports hall at the Western Baths, to run an afterschool activities club - This is starting on the Thursday 31st of January, and will involve some input from the Western Baths staff – but also will require that kids are accompanied and supervised by adults, and as in the children's Garden, we expect that parents help to run the activities. This will run till the end of March initially... This will be free and kids need to bring gym kit... And shoes for use indoors.
Note this does not include use of the swimming pool – but I do recommend people check out the facilities and the kid membership is well priced.
Further information from www.weegarden.co.uk
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