Prestongrange Museum Consultation

Do you visit Prestongrange Museum or its Grounds?

Maybe you use the cafe, visit exhibitions, attend events or walk your dog?  Would you like to be able to walk from Cuthill Park through the woods to the Museum?  We would!!!!!

East Lothian Museums Service is looking for your help! They want to find out how people use the Prestongrange site at the moment, both the museum and its grounds. By understanding their audiences, we aim to provide improved services in the future.

Have Your Say Meeting

7pm - 8.30pm

Thursday 24th February 2011

Pennypit Centre, Prestonpans

Refreshments provided. All welcome.

RSVP to Audrey Edmond on 01620 828 222 or email aedmond@eastlothian.gov.uk

Can't make the meeting but still want to have your say?

• Complete our Online Survey
• Visit the display at Prestonpans Library in late February

Friends of Cuthill Park Meeting - come along!

When:  7.30 p.m. Wednesday 26th January
What: Friends of Cuthill Park Meeting
Where: The Prestoungrange Gothenburg (a.k.a. "the Goth"), High Street, Prestonpans

There's lots to discuss, not least of which is the creation of a community garden and the many forthcoming events which include The Big Lunch, 3 Harbours MuralFest, Love Parks Week, The Royal Weeding, EarthDay and lots more!

Come along, you'll be made very welcome.

National Gathering to Celebrate a Fruitful Scotland

An invitation to attend the Scottish Orchards’ East Coast/Edinburgh Gathering - and see what you can do to create a Fruitful Scotland on Friday 14th and  Saturday 15th January 2011.

WHERE:  Edinburgh University, 5 Forrest Hill, EH1 2QL.  http://bit.ly/hDyVlR

COST:  Free (donations welcome!)

WHEN: Friday 14th and  Saturday 15th January 2011. 12 - 4pm (soup lunch provided)

WHO SHOULD ATTEND?

The event on Friday 14th is aimed more at agency, council,

Government people, designers, planners architects, developers and decision makers. This will address how orchards and fruit growing can fit into the urban fabric and address the growing desire by people to grow food locally.

The event on Saturday 15th is a more relaxed day aimed more at community groups and individuals and will have a skills training element and a strong networking focus. This would interest community groups, teachers, individuals, young and old, keen to create a Fruitful Scotland.

Booking forms can be downloaded at www.scottishorchards.com

Contact John Hancox, for details 0778 606 3918 email john@commonwealthorchard.com

WHAT:

A Central Scotland Orchard

As part of creating a Fruitful Scotland, Scottish Orchards applied successfully to the Central Scotland Green Network Development Fund provided by FCS - to carry out a series of training, networking and support events, to help people to plant, prune, graft and maintain local orchards. 

Our vision is planting orchards for the 21st Century, close to where people live, work, or study.

A Fruitful Gathering

As a wide range of schools, community groups, community

gardens and allotments, local authorities and businesses all have a role in creating orchards - we are keen to get a wide variety of voices contributing to both days so if you’d like to present let us know - and also there will be plenty of networking and space to display information on projects.

A Fruitful Scotland

Scottish Orchards aims to create a Fruitful Scotland with fruit trees growing in every street, planted and looked after by local people and shared by the whole community.

Fruitful Schools (www.fruitfulschools.com)

We would also like to highlight this Scottish Government funded scheme to encourage schools to grow their own food. 

We have schools across Scotland keen to plant and need help to make it happen.

Snow!

One of the many wonderful things about Cuthill Park is its slopes and views across the Forth.  

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This week, with all the schools in East Lothian being closed, the park was full of families sledging and enjoying the snow.

<<< At least one famous person was seen to be having fun away from the prying eyes of the paparazzi.

If you haven't made a snowman, had a snowfight or been sledging yet, get down to Cuthill Park before the big thaw!

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Turn your eyesore to good use!

We don't mean to be cheeky....

...but you know that pile of paving slabs sitting in your driveway, and the leftover bits of decking in your garage, and the random builders bags, pallets and bricks...

....can we have them??

Get your (water) butt down to 

Cuthill Park, Prestongrange Road on

Saturday 27 November 2-3 p.m.

Hard Graft

On Sunday 14th November, the '4 Js' a.k.a Jan B, Jan H, Jocelyn and Josie, set to work planting the 105 saplings included in the Woodland Trust's 'jams, jellies, chutneys and cordials' community tree planting pack.

Using a plan devised by Malcolm, they planted 30 crab apple, 30 blackthorn, 20 elder and 10 dog rose in a double staggered row to form an edible hedgerow.

Fifteen hazel were used in two rows of 7 and 8 which eventually will form an archway into the community garden.

The weather could have been better and by the end of two hours we looked like we had been to Glastonbury but knowing we had planted he first trees for many, many years is a great feeling!

Thanks to Prestonlinks Woodland Group for letting us reuse their tree protectors and stakes.

Make A Difference Day: 30th October 2010

On Make a Difference Day Annemarie, Emily, Georgie, Jan B, Jan H, Katie, Laura, Nigel, and Tom were clearingthe scrubby area by the ScottishWater/Cuthill boundary fence.


We like to think that we Made a Difference - hopefully a positive one!

Next work day: Sunday 14th - tree planting