As part of Skelmorlie Nature Festival, Scottish Wildlife Trust are supporting us with a day of action at the Crescent and we would love it if you could join us! We plan on connecting the path from North to South – creating a whole new space for walkers, whilst also removing the invasive Rhodedendron Ponticum. […]
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In preparation for our festival, we would love to ensure that our park and Kelly Woods are both safe and attractive! Afterwards, we want to ensure we leave the place clean and tidy too. We would be very grateful if you could join us to help out! We will source some litter pickers, bags and […]
In partnership with the Regional Rep for Surfers Against Sewage, we will be sprucing up our local beach with a family-friendly community clean at Meigle Beach, prior to and after the festival. All are welcome to turn up and join on the day! This will help ensure we look after the places we use and […]
We have are having a small meeting in the Eggie to catch up on festival news! We hope to have the schedule finalised by this point, and have lots of the hoops jumped through! This meeting is for anyone interested in the festival, who wants to find our more, or offer any input. […]
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Things are moving at a pace since we received funding for Skelmorlie Nature Festival! The website is coming together nicely, so look forward to some news and the release of our draft programme of events later today, so many exciting activities planned! We are having a meeting tonight to finalise details, look for consensus on […]
Great news. We have been awarded funding through The National Lottery for our nature and wellbeing festival in Skelmorlie. We’re so excited to be bringing lots of fun activities and workshops together as part of Skelmorlie Nature Festival. The funding means that we can deliver on our aim of offering all the sessions free of […]
Today I attended an informative meeting on Rhodedendron control and habitat restoration and wanted to feedback on some of the interesting points raised. Background to Rhododendron Ponticum – the most invasive land plant in Scotland. History of Rhodedendron European and American plants were introduced by Victorians and hybridized to form a plant that spreads quickly. […]
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It’s time for our quarterly meeting to catch up with what we’ve been doing and plan our next events! Come with your ideas of what you would like to do over the coming quarter! Be it a beach clean, green screen, litter pick, crescent clear-up or something new altogether! All are welcome whether you have […]
Update We have been busy doing some further organising of the Festival, on the basis that we are successful with the funding application made to National Lottery on 7th May. Update on funding application National Lottery have been in touch as they review the application and seek some points of clarification. The majority of time […]
Read More… from Skelmorlie Wellbeing and Nature Festival & Public Meeting
Since the last post, just over a week ago, there have been many conversations in anticipation of the first Skelmorlie Wellbeing Festival taking place in August/September 2024. This will be dependent on funding, but it’s necessary to plan so that we can act quickly upon funding. Skelmorlie Nature & Wellbeing Festival Planning Meeting We had […]
