Post Tag: volunteers

News

Early Spring Clean reveals a rubbish strewn river

Dry cold weather has helped conduct an early spring clean-up

Volunteers

A Year of Returns by Ranger Johnny

As we draw to the end of year it’s natural to look back on what has been, for myself it’s ...

News

Dancing on ice and ice actually dancing

What a few weeks it has been for freezing conditions on the river and walkway and wonderful wildlife spotting

News

Boosting Biodiversity by planting wildflowers and sowing seeds

This mild extended autumn has really helped us with this years planting season. Back in March Trust Manager Helen was ...

News

Hanging up the Waders

This week saw a calendar milestone for our volunteers as we packed away the drying greenhouse and tested all our ...

Volunteers

The Buzz of the Tea Break

On world mental health day Johnny reflects on the value of volunteering and the importance of the tea break

Volunteers

Giant Hogweed work gets underway

Regular readers will know that we work each year to tackle this toxic and invasive plant which loves to grow ...

Events

Plant Sale 7th May 11am

Pick up a bargain & help the Water of Leith

Volunteers

Getting the River Summer Ready!

In some ways the river banks are very much like many of us in respect to not quite having the  ...

Volunteers

Spring volunteering its rubbish, oh and railings, path edges, drains, willow fences …..

All the rakes, brushes & cutting tools have been given a huge work out over the last few months to ...

Blog

Willow Spiling – A Traditional, Natural Solution to riverbank Erosion in the heart of Edinburgh

Read how we worked to develop a project at Roseburn to create a 'nature based solution' to erosion

Blog

Eels can climb! So we make ropes to help them scale the rivers barriers

Volunteers Make Eel Ropes with Jack Wooton from Forth Rivers Trust

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