It's Your Neighbourhood Souvenir Brochure: 2019
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Your charity for Scotland’s environment It’s Your Neighbourhood Souvenir Brochure 2019 www.keepscotlandbeautiful.org 1 Keep Scotland Beautiful 2019 achievements It’s Your Neighbourhood, a flagship programme of Keep Scotland Beautiful, is a community environmental improvement initiative managed in partnership with the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) under the Britain in Bloom campaign. It’s Your Neighbourhood is designed to attract volunteer-led community groups which are cleaning and beautifying their neighbourhoods, whether through community allotments, after school wildlife clubs, school eco-groups, friends of park groups, or adopting pieces of derelict land. Keep Scotland Beautiful supports and encourages participating groups from across Scotland, and rewards them through a series of certificates to acknowledge the good work being done on behalf of their communities. It’s Your Neighbourhood runs alongside the Beautiful Scotland initiative but is non-competitive and is based on the three pillars of community participation, environmental responsibility and gardening achievement. Many It’s Your Neighbourhood groups now work with Beautiful Scotland groups to add value to enhancement initiatives in villages, towns and cities all over Scotland. There are five levels of achievement to encourage groups to progress. These are: Establishing Improving Advancing Thriving Outstanding Cover image: Allotment Angels of Includeme2 club, Glasgow 2 www.keepscotlandbeautiful.org National Cleanliness Benchmarking Report: 2017 – 2018 Certificates of Distinction We are delighted to award 45 of this year’s It’s Your Neighbourhood groups with a 2019 Certificate of Distinction. The certificates recognise groups which have consistently grown and improved over the years of taking part in the campaign. To be eligible for a Certificate of Distinction, a group must have participated in the campaign for at least four years and achieved the ‘Outstanding’ level in the current year, or moved up at least two levels since first entering. Aberdeen City Dundee City Highland Airyhall School Bonnie Dundee Raasay Walled Garden Cummings Park Community Friends of the Barnhill Rock Flat Community Garden Garden Inverclyde Fittie Community Development Ninewells Community Garden Trust Wellington Allotment Gardens Queen Street Community Association Friends of Duthie Park Garden Friends of Seaton Park The Maxwell Centre North Ayrshire Friends of Victoria & Westburn Parks Organic Growers of Fairlie East Lothian Garthdee Field Allotments Glebe Greenspace Project Association North Lanarkshire The Ridge Nether Loirston Growers Friends of Centenary & West Association End Parks Recovery Garden Group Falkirk Getting Better Together Ltd Slopefield Allotment Community Green Initiative Glenboig Development Trust Association (CGI) Greenhead Moss Conservation Group Aberdeenshire Fife Hope Community Garden Kincardine O’Neil in Bloom Blooming Dairsie Watch US Grow CLEAR Buckhaven & Methil Argyll and Bute East March Street, Kirkcaldy, Renfrewshire Community Gardens & Innellan Primary School’s Grow in Glenburn Hungry Diggers Allotments Hayfield Growing South Lanarkshire City of Edinburgh Kinghorn Harbour Residents and Environmental Group Forth Eco Site Friends of Starbank Park Kirkcaldy Old Kirk Trust Friends of Holmhills Wood Lochend Community Growing Community Park Project Muchty in Bloom Stirling Clackmannanshire Glasgow City Greener Cambusbarron Sauchie Community Group Urban Roots Woodside Community Garden www.keepscotlandbeautiful.org 3 Keep Scotland Beautiful Entrants and achievements Aberdeen City Cummings Park Community Flat Community Garden Outstanding The Community Flat gardens offer stimulation and education to local people and a safe place for children to play. People of all ages are encouraged to take part to plan, plant, grow and reap the benefits. Litter picking is now an annual activity, as is a community walk-about. Airyhall School Denburn Court Tenants and Outstanding Residents Association The school is committed to being eco-friendly and Thriving has an Eco Group, with pupils from each class, Denburn Court is a multi-storey building, housing which meets regularly to discuss ideas. As well as 120 people. The group has strong community maintaining outdoor areas, a community garden backing from all the residents who get involved in and plot at Slopefield Allotments, this year the a number of ways such as gardening, bird feeding, group chose three main goals to work towards – DIY jobs and just enjoying the garden from their sustainability, litter and saving power. window. The growing area has herbs and vegetables and a biodiversity area. Berry Park Establishing Fittie Community Development A community growing space and garden to Trust encourage and enhance the area with school Outstanding involvement. The trust’s gardening volunteers look after the many flower tubs in Footdee. The main task for 2019 was preparing and planting up the Castlewood Gardens community garden. Other planned activities Advancing included a plant sale fundraiser, a summer garden The group in Castlewood Gardens works together party, local beach clean-up events and further to make a colourful garden. The sheltered housing spring bulb planting. complex is made up of 144 flats between two skyscrapers. Some of the tenants have dementia and other disabilities, so the group tries to make the garden as nice as possible. 4 www.keepscotlandbeautiful.org It’s Your Neighbourhood Souvenir Brochure: 2019 Friends of Duthie Park Friends of Sunnybank Park Outstanding Advancing The group is a support organisation for the Duthie The park is used by many, from dog walkers, food Park in Aberdeen. Its objectives are to preserve growers, children, walkers and artists, and the the heritage of the park and to encourage its use space caters for all with paths and areas left for by the general public. wildlife. Friends of Johnston Gardens Friends of Victoria & Westburn Outstanding Parks Outstanding Johnston Gardens have existed for many years and provide a unique garden space, enjoyed by all An active group which works towards the ages. The group undertakes various maintenance improvement of these two greenspaces in the activities in co-operation with the council. Rosemount area. Over the past year the group has Activities include painting fences and the public had almost 1,400 hours of input from volunteers, toilet, clearing autumn leaves, pruning roses, bulb made up mainly of the Saturday morning planting sessions and raising funds for a new gardening sessions, maintenance work and alpine garden. tidying up. Friends of Walker Dam Advancing The dam historically served the ‘bleaching fields’ of the city’s textile area. The group’s aim is to promote enjoyment of the Walker Dam and burn, to preserve the area from development and to promote the wildlife which includes waterfowl, foxes and deer. Garthdee Field Allotments Association Outstanding In the group’s own words, “Garthdee Field is a wonderful, friendly, green space. We plotters see it as our wee place in the country.” The group are Friends of Seaton Park enthusiastic gardeners and like sharing ideas Outstanding about gardening better and greener. They want to share their enthusiasm and site with the wider Friends of Seaton Park works in partnership with community. They are proud of Garthdee Field and the council to ensure the park is a rewarding their plots and enjoy showing visitors around. space for everyone to visit. Noticeboards have been installed and are regularly updated to inform the wider community of events and, in the summer, surplus local allotment produce is gathered and sold on to the general public from the allotment market stall. www.keepscotlandbeautiful.org 5 Keep Scotland Beautiful Lord Hay’s Court Gardeners Advancing Flower beds and planters have been complemented with a sheltered seating area, sensory planting and all is wheelchair and mobility scooter friendly. Middlefield Corners Establishing The group is making green corners of the streets more colourful by planting flowers, fruit and vegetables, making trees colourful with craft bombing and encouraging the community to get Gwen’s Community Garden involved. Advancing A small community garden project that promotes biodiversity and different methods of gardening within the local community. Hazlehead – Community Group Thriving The school has five values which reflect the school ethos and it aims to embed these further by creating a ‘Values Garden’. The pupils have worked on a design using the values and have designed and painted a friendship bench to share them. A wooded area is used as an outdoor classroom, with imaginative projects such as making Harry Potter wands from elder. Nether Loirston Growers Kittybrewster Nursery Association Advancing Outstanding The 31 growing spaces were set up in 2011 after a A group of nursery children, parents, staff and successful Climate Challenge Fund bid. The friends working together to improve the outdoor Allotmenteers come from the local community, space for lots of play and learning opportunities! reducing their food carbon footprint. The group The group has added a wildflower area to advertises itself in the Cove Chronicle and on previously unused ground and continues its great Facebook. The group grows mainly soft fruit and work on fighting litter by supporting the Clean Up vegetables and gets involved in the local gala with Aberdeen campaign. a table selling plants. 6 www.keepscotlandbeautiful.org It’s Your Neighbourhood Souvenir Brochure: 2019 Oldmachar