Want to do Orienteering in Cuthill Park?

British Orienteering is offering its popular Xplorer package free to the first 50 groups that complete the brief questionnaire explaining why they want to run Xplorer in their park.

 

This is a unique opportunity to be involved in getting a local community out and active in their park with Xplorer.  In preparation for Love Parks week (24 July - 2 August 2015) British Orienteering want to support groups in their fantastic work by providing all they need to encourage families to come and explore their green spaces.

 

In return for agreeing to hold a minimum of six Xplorer events before Halloween, Friends of the Park Groups will receive a free map of their park site and a kit bag full of a large selection of markers, supplementary Xplorer equipment and publicity materials (including Xplorer sail banners certificates and stickers) - everything needed to put on exciting beginner orienteering activities in Cuthill Park park.

Xplorer is a popular outdoor navigation challenge for all the family. It's perfect for primary and pre-school children and older children and adults can join in too. Using a simple map, participants have to find markers located around the park and identify what is pictured and learn a fun fact. Older children can compete against friends and family to see who can complete the course in the quickest time and younger children will enjoy the excitement of finding the markers.

 

To learn more or find an Xplorer event near you visit www.xplorer.org.uk. 

 

Xplorer's Head of Development Craig Anthony said, “Xplorer has been running in select locations in England for the past two years and attracted over 60,000 people to take part during that time. We have seen the benefit of working with groups who really care about their local green space and want to work with more like minded groups.”

 

As a small group, the Friends of Cuthill Park are already spread quite thinly and would struggle to take on another commitment but, if you or your group would like to see Orienteering taking place in the park, then this is a great chance to make it happen and you won't be on your own as The Friends of Cuthill Park can help with publicity.

If this is something you are interested in, let us know by emailing friendsofcuthillpark@hotmail.com.  Interested groups should complete the questionnaire as soon as possible, the first 50 groups will receive the Xplorer package. 

Murals - Day 2

And here's how the murals looked at the end of a rather wet & windy day two:

Mural Festival - Day 1

With just a few hours of painting left on day one, here's how the murals are looking.

Tom Ewing & community members: 

Ken Wilson:

Paul Dalrymple: 

Zoe Inglis: 

And while our artists were busy, we had a nature detective trail, which proved popular, and a bug hunt:

And the children organised their own impromptu sack races: 

We still have wildflower seeds to give away, & pavement chalk available for anyone to use in the park tomorrow. 

Please come along & join us! If you're out watching the marathon why not pop into Cuthill Park for a visit? 

The murals are under way!

A beautiful sunny morning here in the park, and our artists are just beginning their work.

Tom Ewing begins the community mural - come along today or tomorrow to add your own piece of artwork to this: 

And Ken Wilson is off to a cracking start: 

With Paul Dalrymple and Zoe Inglis just starting:

Come and watch as things progress over the weekend. 

Activities for everyone ...

Today (Saturday), 1-3pm in Cuthill Park - various activities for everyone to join in! 

Go bug hunting, colour a mask, make your own moth, try the Nature Detectives' challenge, help with the community mural ... 

Or try your hand at some pavement art: 

Or enter our competition to create a face from as many different natural materials as possible: 

And more!

Try building your own twig tower. How high can you build? How much weight can it hold? 

Did you know you can use the sap from dandelions as invisible ink? Write a secret message! 

Mural Festival This Weekend!

This weekend, 11-6pm Saturday & Sunday, Cuthill Park will host the Mural Festival, as part of the 3 Harbours Art Festival. 

Four artists are competing to create a prize-winning mural based on the theme of Biodiversity. Tom Ewing (one of our well known local artists) will be creating a fifth mural with the help of anyone & everyone who would like to join in. 

There will be some nature-related activities for children/families to take part in, free of charge, between 1-3pm on the Saturday only. We have a box of goodies from Fields in Trust which we will be using - some to give away to enthusiastic young gardeners and environmentalists. 

So, come along & join us to celebrate art, nature, and community in our beautiful park - & while you're at it, feel free to add a bee, butterfly, flower, cloud - or whatever your imagination can link to biodiversity - on our community mural. 

Working in the Sunshine.

Today was a beautiful day for gardening😊

Look how great the newly covered paths look (thanks to various children & Elders Hornberger & Erickson): 

And Josie dug a whole bed all by herself. Go Josie! 

And the corner full of nettles has been reclaimed - thank you Emma! 

And another bed frame was built & placed & a few others repaired, thanks to Matthew: 

And the container has been cleared out & reorganised, too (sorry, no photo - it's not as pretty as the rest of the garden!). We did rediscover sports equipment & a road mat though: