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A Big Push to End the Year on a High!
Let’s start off with a massive thank-you to all who braved the hellish weather at the weekend to get some more bulbs planted. Despite the low turnout and my abduction by the press an impressive amount of work was done with hundreds more bulbs planted.
Next week we’ll be back to our usual time of 11:30am up at Townhead and as ever there’s loads to do. This week should see the winter aconites and the last of the grape hyacinths planted. In addition I’ve been given a bag of daffodils and post permitting should have 1000 snowdrops, 50 wood anemone and 100 English Bluebells to add to the display.
We’ve done well to raise the funds we have but sadly we’re still short of our 10,000 target by some way. The council were in touch recently and made positive noises about helping us out with some tulips and daffodils which should hopefully see us reach our individual targets on those flowers. However we still urgently require 900 English Bluebells, 950 Wood Anemone and 300 Snakeshead Fritallaries. If the council let us down then we’re also still short by 600 mixed daffodils and 900 tulips. A total shortfall of around 3650 bulbs.
If you would like to donate to our funds then please do so via paypal. If you’d prefer to bring some bulbs along then we’ll be accepting donations of bulbs at Townhead if you’d like to come along and drop them off. We’ve only got until 31st December to meet our target and have done well despite some recent setbacks. It would be a shame to come this far and fall short so if you have any spare cash or bulbs we really would be very grateful for your donations.
We’ll be up at Townhead on Saturday 21st Nov at 11:30am, Saturday 28th November at 11:30am, December 5th 11:30am, December 12th 11:30am, December 19th 11:30am and Wednesday 30th December at 12pm. If you’d like to come along to any of these events with some bulbs of the still needed varieties, some gloves and trowel or bulb planter you’ll be more than welcome.
North Kelvin Meadow – court action
UPDATE: http://northkelvinmeadow.com/2009/08/21/court-case-21st-aug-09/
Karen Chung and Douglas Peacock, along with the ‘North Kelvinside Green Space Initiative’ have been summoned to appear at the Sheriff Court in Glasgow on 21/08/09 at 12 noon to defend an action that has been brought against them by Glasgow City Council. GCC wants to stop the raised beds, the bat boxes, the use of the renovated brick building and people working on the land at the Meadow.
http://www.dailyexpress.co.uk/posts/view/121592/Council-s-court-bid-to-kick-out-eco-volunteers/
http://www.twodoctors.org/2009/08/glasgow-city-council-loses-the.html
North Kelvin Meadow – still need help
North Kelvin Meadow still need your help, please visit their website for more information:
27th June – Townhead
| June 27, 2009 | ||
| 11:30 am | to | 12:30 pm |
11:30 at our Townhead site.
Bring along whatever you can, a few bin bags is always handy to put all the rubbish in.
North Kelvin Meadow – Needs your help!
Some of you may have heard of The North Kelvin Meadow, some of you may even have helped out over at the site. Within the last week, North Kelvin Meadow have been informed that the land they are using may be about to be sold.
For more information, please visit: northkelvinmeadow.com. If you can help them, please lend your support.
Thank you,
Michael
Keeping Glasgow a Green Dear City
Start: 29/11/2008
For a fun winter day out then join the Woodland Trust Scotland and Glasgow City Council for a day of tree planting and woodland activities on Heathcote Avenue, Drumchapel. As well as tree planting there will be wood sculpting and willow weaving.
The event is part of a wider tree planting programme involving both the Woodland Trust Scotland and Glasgow City Council.
Come along to Heathcote Ave on Saturday 29th November, the fun starts at 11.00am and runs until 3.00pm
For more information contact Rebecca Whitley on 08452 935 790