RiverLife: Almond & Avon
RiverLife Team Promote Sustainable Development Goals with West Lothian College
On March 11th West Lothian College held its first Sustainability Summit to raise awareness and discuss some of the issues associated with combating climate change. The summit focused on the 17 Sustainable Development Goals released by the United Nations in 2015 and...
Binny Craig – a windy walk with SRUC
We thought we would do something a little different – although, granted, the RiverLife project can often come up with something a little different on a daily basis – and let some students deliver our guided walk. For RiverLife the aim is to get communities connected...
Tatty bye
It's difficult to summarise three years at the Forth Rivers Trust in a single blog post, especially when it's the Friday afternoon of your last week and the lure of a cold, frothy pint of ale at the neighbouring pub is unusually persistent. So, I have compiled a wee...
Tidy your Burn on Burns day – Armadale
I was privileged to be involved at the beginning of a new community drive to tidy up their local area. The main motivator on the scene in Armadale was a very inspiring local lad by the name of Finlay. He was compelled to start the group from his experiences litter...
What’s in the local burn?
The project has been mooching about some of the Almond's wee burns of late. Burn's day (25th Jan) fell on a Saturday this year and so we thought it was the ideal opportunity to pay homage to some lesser loved burns. Two of our young community leader, Aimee-leigh and...
LCB fish pass installation
The concrete bridge apron under the A71 on the Harwood water, Polbeth, was highlighted as a barrier to fish migration after looking into mitigating the larger barrier about 500m upstream – Limefield falls. A low-cost baffle (LCB) fish pass was deemed the best option...
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.