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Eight Events Across South Edinburgh
Friends Campaign Sponsored By Bernard Hunter
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Full Details Of This Year’s Clean Ups - 8 Events Including Other Partners in the Area
*First Event This Saturday - See Below*
Each Year for the past three years we have organised a ‘Big Spring Clean’ with three events to clean the three main sections of the park. This year we’re joining forces with other partner organisations to try and increase participation in cleaning up the wider area.
There are an array of community activists who help clean up their local areas, and we thought we’d try and join forces to get more people to join in to clear up our parks and public spaces. So why do this? There are some pretty good reasons for doing so:
- Litter blights our public spaces and our community
- Plastic litter won’t go away unless it is disposed of and is a danger to both wildlife an human life - Microplastics were present in the bodies of all parcipants from eight European countries in a recent study. It’s time to clean up our act
- Spending time in a park is good for you. Even just twenty minutes in a park helps you mentally and physically. It’s official, green space is good for you
- Moderate exercise is good for you too, and that’s exactly what you will get on one of these litter pics
- It helps this and future generations - let’s leave our children a better and healthier environment
- It makes the community look much nicer
So, come along and spend some time doing good for yourself, for your community and for all our kids. Check out the dates below and pop along when you can.
We’d like to thank all our partners, including The Friends of St Katharine’s Park, Liberton and District Community Council, Edinburgh and Lothians Greenspace Trust, the 93rd Edinburgh Guides, Edinburgh Evening News and The City of Edinburgh Council. And of course special thanks to our sponsors local Gilmerton company, Bernard Hunter, which is helping support the programme.
We had over 100 volunteers out last year. Let’s see if we can beat that and help make the whole of south Edinburgh cleaner and better.
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Events Programme for This Year
*First Event This Saturday at St Katharines Park*
Information for activities - All children must be accompanied, and please dress for the weather:
- This Saturday, 30th March: 9-11am, Friends of St Katharine’s Park Clean Up, Meeting in St Katharine’s Park, Liberton Gardens - Enjoy the Bulbs!
- Saturday, 6th April: 10am until lunchtime, Friends of Burdiehouse Burn Valley Park Clean Up, Moredun Woods/Ellen’s Glen area. Meeting at the rear of Morrisons on Gilmerton Road
- Tuesday, 9th April: 9am until lunchtime, The Friends of Burdiehouse Burn Valley Park/City of Edinburgh Council Clean Up in the Burdiehouse area. Meeting at Valley Park Community Centre, 37 Southhouse Road, EH17 8EU
- Saturday, 13th April: 10am until lunchtime, The Friends of Burdiehouse Burn Valley Park, Gilmerton Dykes Area. Meeting at ‘The Bothy’, 26b Gilmerton Dykes Street, EH17 8LQ
- Friday 26th April: 1-3pm, Edinburgh and Lothians Greenspace Trust Clean Up Moredun area. Meeting at Goodtrees Community Centre, 11-15 Moredunvale Place, EH17 7LB
- Saturday 4th May: Liberton and District Community Council Clean Up in Gracemount Area, 9-11am. Meeting at the entrance to Gracemount Mansion, 47 Gracemount House Drive, EH16 6FD
- May: 93rd City of Edinburgh Guides Clean Up in Gilmerton Dykes Area – This is not an open event, it’s for the Guides Only Clean Up
- Murrays Area Clean Up: Residents are planning a clean up in The Murrays and the details are being finalised. We will circulate details when they are available.
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Results Matter - Before Last Year’s Clean Up
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Join in, have some fun and do some good!
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Treats in Store!
Thanks to our sponsors Bernard Hunter, we will have Lego Toys as a small thank you for children volunteers - until they run out, and there will be certificates for all children taking part thanks to the It of Edinburgh Council.
And, it's not just for kids. We have the booklet ‘The Burdiehouse Burn Valley Park - A History Of the Area’ by Dr Margaret Collingwood. All that and great company too! What’s not to like!
Join the 2019 ‘Big Spring Clean’, and the best thing is the satisfaction you will feel from doing some real good for your community.
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