RiverLife: Almond & Avon
Willow Spiling with Friends of Polkemmet Country Park
The Friends of Polkemmet group have been carrying out small maintenance tasks within the park to improve the appearance of the park. We applied for a River Life Project Package grant to deliver a willow spiling project along the river embankment. Willow Spiling is a...
Hide and seek: exploring Limefield Falls with Polbeth Harwood Parish Church Sunday Club
‘I am prickly and hidden in the tree I fell from’. ‘I wake you up and give you a kick. I am hidden under a piece of wood’. Can you guess what these descriptions are referring to? They are just two of the inventive and cryptic clues that members of Polbeth Harwood...
Remembering ‘Our’ Falls
This striking wintery image of the frozen Limefield Falls was one of three photos kindly sent to us (artists Minty Donald and Nick Millar) by Alex Kinsman, one of the people taking part in a reminiscence workshop at Polbeth Harwood Parish Church. Fuelled by some tasty...
Volunteering Highlights
We have had a lot of volunteering activity over 2019 both in RiverLife and in the Trust, with some great achievements made by everyone involved. Volunteers are one of the most important aspects of the work of the Trust and the RiverLife project. Without the aid of all...
A ‘treasure’ hunt in Polbeth: mapping and discovering with Polbeth After School Club
Where do you find mushrooms in Polbeth? ‘The Scotmid shop!’ was the prompt reply from one of the young people taking part in a ‘Mapping and Discovering’ workshop guided by us (artists Minty Donald and Nick Millar), as part of the ‘Our’ Falls public art project. Young...
Rivers are Dynamic
Minds can be moulded at any age, and we try to show this by dusting off the river table and honing our teaching skills for high school students with Dynamic Rivers! We have been working with St Margaret’s High School in Livingston to show the higher geography classes...
As part of this project we are keen to build up a picture of how people engage with their local river and what their perceptions are of it. To do this we have created a short, online survey which we hope you can spare a few minutes to complete.