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The Grand Opening!

Today was the Grand Opening of the play area & community garden in Cuthill Park, combined with the Big Lunch, organised by the Prestongrange & Cuthill Tenants & Residents Group and the Friends of Cuthill Park. The weather was beautiful and the park was full of people from the local community. 

Willie Innes, the head of East Lothian Council, spoke of the journey the park has been on, from a neglected area to what we see today.

Stuart Pryde of East Lothian Council was also in attendance, and his contribution to the progress of the park over the past years was recognised. 

The ribbon, held by Veronica Davidson of PCTRG and Zoe Inglis of the Friends of Cuthill Park, was cut by Josh Taylor, our local Olympic Boxer, watched by Stuart Pryde & Willie Innes. 

Some of the people who have helped in the development of the various aspects of the park: 

Left to right - Stuart Pryde, ELC; Zoe Inglis, chair of FoCP; Veronica Davidson, PCTRG; Josh Taylor, who grew up playing in and around Cuthill Park; Cllr Willie Innes, ELC; and Elders Green & Hornberger of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormons), representing Elders & Sisters from the LDS church who have helped in the park on various projects over the past 3 years. Our grateful thanks go to all of our volunteers! 

Following the formal opening there were activities running the length & breadth of the park. 

Sack races and parachute games were organised by Martin Whitfield.

East Coast FM provided music, entertainment, & giant bears, and were invaluable in announcing events. 

The library ran their BookBug Rhymetime session in the park. 

More races, including Tattie Tossing & Welly Whanging followed, with prizes given out by Josh Taylor. 

A wonderful day of community celebration! Thank you to everyone who came, and especially to everyone who has given their time, talents and means over the years to help Cuthill Park to become what it is today. 

Meeting - Thu 16th July

There will be a meeting of the Friends of Cuthill Park, joint with Prestongrange & Cuthill Tenants & Residents Group, at 

7pm on Thursday 16th July

at the Goth, Prestonpans

The meeting is to continue planning the park's official opening & Big Lunch for August 29th. 

Please do come along, even if you haven't previously attended a meeting. 

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.