We’ll meet 9.30 am at Meigle Beach with cars and bags to pick up seaweed. Bring a few gardening tools, such as gloves, secateurs for freeing any trapped branches/cutting away long grass, mallets for stake consolidation and some cable ties. Whatever you have kicking around at home, don’t go out buying anything as we can […]
It’s back! After a great turnout and fun event last year, we are bringing our Spooky Halloween Walk back to Skelmorlie Crescent North. Progress in the Crescent Since last year, even more of the invasive Rhoddies have been cleared, the path has been extended and a bridge has been built. Walk time Bring your wee […]
Last year we ran a Spooky Halloween event at the Crescent. It was a lot of fun to run, was well attended and helped people see the work we had been doing in the Crescent. We had some traditional games, storytelling by the fire and monster apples which went down a treat! We have decided […]
I just wanted to point out a change in time to our original schedule. We have moved the time of the post Kelly Woods litter pick to be on the evening in order to better suit people! Here is a recap of the cleanup times! Meigle Beach – with Surfers Against Sewage – North Ayrshire Pre-event: Wednesday 28th […]
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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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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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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 […]
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