Post Category: Volunteers

Volunteers

Riding solo

Johnny tackles puddles, snow and litter keeping on top of essential walkway work.

Learning

Outdoor Learning Officer Ruth shares the joys and challenges of bringing Outdoor Learning to Braidburn Special School

A focus on sensory learning with multiple approaches to suit the range of learning styles

News

Volunteering Tasks in 2020 were different but just look at the hours clocked up

2020/21 was a very different year for our volunteer team. From May our work to maintain the walkway and control …

Patrols 2020
Volunteers

Patrol volunteer Juliet shares her experiences on returning to volunteering

“Lockdown was the first time (apart from for holidays and illness) that I wasn’t able to patrol the Dells since …

Brian Henderson
News

Sad news as Brian Henderson former Trustee and Scotland Rugby Cap passes away

Every organisation need there own ‘action man or woman’ and for nearly two decades Brian Henderson was ours. Trustee David …

News

8 months on – what have we been up to?

On 17th March we closed the doors of the centre and paused all operations due to the rise of a …

Visitor Centre

Wild about Masks – well sick of picking up discarded disposables and seeking sewers to make reusable masks to sell at the Centre

We have all seen discarded PPE in the streets, parks and greenspaces and our volunteers are sick of picking up this potentially hazardous litter. Masks and gloves also pose a risk to wildlife.

Charlotte Fundraising Run
Fundraising

Charlotte RAN the river – and raised around £6K thank you to all who supported her and us

Heres is Charlottes Run Report following her Source to Sea fundraising Challenge running 28 miles dressed as an Otter!!

Fundraising

The Hit Squad volunteer team are awesome – here is the lasted from Project Officer Johnny

We love that our volunteers keep on coming out some weekly, others monthly and some yearly, together we’ll keep the river and walkway being epic.

Volunteers

INNS work continues with our autumn Japanese Knotweed treatment

Readers will be well aware of our work to control Giant Hogweed and Himalayan Balsam along the river, at this …

Volunteers

One man went to mow, went to mow a meadow… well a couple of men and some women and it is 8 meadows

As the leaves begin to change colour and the last of the blackberries are being foraged from the walkway you …

Volunteers

Is your local stretch of river a Giant Hogweed Hotspot? Check out our Heat Map

Every cloud has a silver lining and lockdown has helped us get a better overview of the distribution of Giant Hogweed plants on the Water of Leith.

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