Community Project Awards
Community groups and schools benefit from the Community Project Fund
The Central Scotland Forest Trust has awarded over £14,000 to 49 school and community-led environmental improvement projects throughout the Central Scotland Forest. Groups benefiting from individual awards of up to £500 include nursery, primary and high schools creating wildlife or sensory gardens within their grounds and community groups creating sensory gardens, landscaping memorial cairns, maintaining woodlands, planting wildflowers, entering Scotland in Bloom, encouraging local storytelling events, organising family fun days, promoting bat conservation and building a raised bog walkway.
The Community Projects Fund offered one-off grants of up to £500 to help formally constituted groups improve their local environment. The groups are not required to part-fund their projects and the award can be spent to cover the entire cost of a project or be a contribution towards it.
The volume and scope of applications delighted Community Liaison Officer, Linda McConaghie, who says: "The creativity of projects coming direct from people who want to improve their local area is fantastic. Combined, these projects will make a significant contribution to establishing the Central Scotland Forest."
Community Groups and Schools Awarded Funds
South Lanarkshire
1 Blacklaw Primary School, East Kilbride - to purchase a planter, soil and plants
2 Blackbraes Community Park, East Kilbride - leaflets for the John Struthers Nature Area
3 Chatelherault Primary School, Hamilton - to protect and enhance the school’s woodland
4 Douglas Valley Rural Activity Partnership - to purchase plants for landscaping the fishery
5 Forth Community Resource Centre - for the Forth Storytelling project
6 Forth Gateway Project - contribution towards funding
7 Newton
Residents Association, Cambuslang - to purchase plants and shrubs for
the Community Park and Millennium Garden project
8 Sanderson High School, East Kilbride - towards the school’s sensory garden
9 Strathaven in Bloom - to purchase self-watering plant units
10 Braehead Village Day Committee - to improve the village hall grounds
Falkirk
11 Airth Primary School Nursery Class - to improve the school grounds
12 Antonine Primary School, Bonnybridge - towards wildlife garden maintenance
13 Braes High School Gardening Club, Falkirk - to purchase a water butt and stands
14 Camelon
Children’s Centre, Healthy Eating Project, Falkirk - to purchase seeds,
plants, peat-free compost and hire BTCV Scotland staff
15 Carron Primary School, Falkirk - to purchase trees, plants and peat-free compost
16 Grangemouth High School Environment Club - to purchase tubs, plants and soil
17 Hallglen Primary School, Falkirk - for school ground improvements
18 Ladeside Nursery Class, Larbert - to purchase plants and materials
19 Nethermains Primary School, Denny - to create a school quiet area
20 Slamannan Primary School - to improve and develop school grounds
21 Stenhousemuir Primary School, Larbert - for wildflower plants, seeds and bird tables
22 Torwood School - for wildflowers, trees, bird boxes and feeders
North Lanarkshire
23 Branchalwood Estate Residents Association, Wishaw - to purchase native wildflowers
24 Calderbank Conservation Society, Cumbernauld - for path and bank improvements
25 Clyde Bat Group, Motherwell - for leaflets and stationery
26 Greenhead Moss Community Trust, Motherwell - for the raised bog access project
27 Hozier Nursery School, Uddingston - to develop outdoor play area
28. Logan’s Primary School, Motherwell To improve the school grounds
29. Moira Anderson Foundation, Airdrie To hire art workers to rejuvenate garden
30. Muir Street Primary Home School Link, Motherwell To purchase plants, trees and compost for the garden
31. Muirhouse Primary & Nursery School, Motherwell To purchase plants, trees and compost to improve school grouds
32. Newarthill Nursery Centre For the Newarthill Sensory Garden
33. Newton Residents Association For plants, shrubs and materials for the Commuity Park & Millennium Garden
34. Plains Country Park Project For the community wildlife garden and nursery
35. Shawhead Nursery Centre, Coatbridge To purchase plants and shrubs for the nursery grounds
36. Shotts Nature Park Group For the Shotts Nature Park Family Day
37. St Bernadette’s Primary School, Motherwell For the school sensory garden
38. Townhead Primary School, Coatbridge To purchase planted tubs
39. Viewpark Family Centre Association Ltd, Glasgow Towards the outdoor space project
West Lothian
40. Addiewell Memorial Cairn Group To purchase shrubs to landscape around the Cairn
41. Blackmoss Nature Park Management Group, Armadale To purchase materials and towards maintenance
42. Blackridge Community Council For the management of Kirkwood Woodland
43. Falla Hill Primary School, Fauldhouse To purchase plants, tubs and hire a sculptor to create a therapy garden
44. Fauldhouse Nursery School For a Sensory Garden
45. First Adventures Nursery, Linthlithgow For a wildlife garden
46. Grange Primary School, Bo’ness To purchase plants, bark and slabs to improve the school grounds
47. Hopefield Nursery School, Blackburn To upgrade the outside play area with hedges
48. St John the Baptist Primary School, Fauldhouse For the school wildlife/quiet garden
49. Uphall Community Friendship Garden To purchase plants and shrubs for the Millennium Friendship Garden
