Bumper Crop of Orchard Grant Awards!
Forth Environment Link has announced the award winners of over £16,500 of funding from the Central Scotland Green Network Orchard Grant Scheme 2011/2012.
Sixty community groups, schools and landowners across the Central Scotland Green Network area are reaping the rewards of the funding, supported by the Central Scotland Green Network Development Fund 2011, to establish and manage orchards, increase orchard biodiversity, and use the fruit.
Forth Environment Link Project Officer, Diane Alderdice said, “We were absolutely delighted with the response from applicants. We are funding such a wide range of interesting and exciting projects this year that I’m confident there will be an enthusiastic response from people wanting to get involved in local events.
“We had applications from schools who were looking at whole school enterprise project to raise money from selling their fruit, and communities for whom creation of an orchard would contribute significantly towards the social and economic regeneration of their area. We were particularly pleased to have awarded private landowners funding to enable them to extend existing orchards and look at ways of generating income from the fruit”.
Forth Environment Link Executive Director, Jane Cullingworth, said, “Clearly there are many communities and individuals across central Scotland with a passion for orchards! We are thrilled to be working with CSGN to provide much needed resources to enable people’s dreams to bear fruit.”
Keith Geddes, Chairman of the CSGN Board, said, "I'm delighted that the 2nd year of the CSGN Orchard Grant Scheme has again proved so popular. The CSGN aims to transform the environment of Central Scotland and orchard projects such as these are a fantastic way of delivering a range of benefits, and fostering community pride in their own surroundings."
CSGN Development Fund 2011
CSGN Orchard Grant Scheme 2011/2012
Grant Award Winners
|
Applicant |
Project Name |
LA Area |
Project Description |
Award |
|
Abundance (Edinburgh) (Exemplar Project) |
Urban Harvester |
City of Edinburgh |
An Abundance project that will train volunteer pickers, foragers, gardeners, pressers on the good maintenance of trees, from tending formerly neglecting trees, through to tidying, pruning and propagating and to harvesting methods. To hold a series of events and provide informal workshops to share their skills with new volunteers, gardeners and the wider community. |
£400 |
|
Carrick Knowe Primary School |
School Orchard |
City of Edinburgh |
To establish an orchard in the grounds of the school that will increase the wildlife (both insect and bird life) to the grounds and to use the fruit to eat, cook and sell. |
£310 |
|
Cranley Nurseries |
Cranley Nursery Orchard |
City of Edinburgh |
To create an orchard to include 16 fruit trees to enhance the children’s learning - from the 3 nurseries in south Edinburgh. |
£280 |
|
Currie Community High School |
Orchard within School Grounds |
City of Edinburgh |
Creating an orchard for Currie High School, Woodlands Special School and wider community use. |
£176 |
|
Edinburgh World Heritage (Exemplar Project |
Acheson House Community Garden |
City of Edinburgh |
A garden project to recreate a historic orchard in Acheson House back garden, which is a neglected 240mq south facing plot of land in the Canongate. The project is entirely community-led from the garden design, to the execution and maintenance. |
£500 |
|
G & G Sinclair |
West Craigie Heritage Community Orchard |
City of Edinburgh |
To establish a community orchard using Scottish heritage varieties that provides a living classroom and opportunity to experience how food is produced. |
£440 |
|
Tenants and Residents in Pilton |
West Pilton Community Garden, small orchard planting |
City of Edinburgh |
To create a mini-orchard as part of a larger edible community garden. |
£290 |
|
The Field Group Duddingston |
The Field Orchard Foundation Day |
City of Edinburgh |
To produce 100 new fruit trees to form the growing basis of a new orchard, and train 10 local people in grafting rootstocks, followed by an open event to local community members to view the new stock and to walk the land. |
£290 |
|
Nicholas Poett, Harviestoun |
Harviestoun Orchard |
Clackmannanshire |
To restore / create an orchard at Harviestoun with a wide variety of mainly apple trees but also some plums and damsons. |
£400 |
|
Auchinairn Primary School |
Auchinairn Orchard Project |
East Dunbartonshire |
To establish a small orchard of 16 fruit trees. |
£328 |
|
Meadowburn Primary School |
Meadowburn Primary School Orchard Project |
East Dunbartonshire |
Children from the school gardening club and Eco commitee will work collaboratively with the wider community ie parents, grandparents to discover the importance of bio diversity and growing and using our own organic produce. |
£288 |
|
Wester Cleddens Primary School, Bishopbriggs |
Eco Schools |
East Dunbartonshire |
A whole-school project to create and look after the orchard. |
£119 |
|
Musselburgh Grammar School |
MGS Orchard |
East Lothian |
The orchard would be part of the ongoing work by the school community, particularly including pupils with additional support needs (including learning difficulties and social/emotional/ behaviour difficulties) to regenerate the school garden and the grounds surrounding the school. This work involves pupils of various ages, staff from a range of departments, and members of the local community. |
£300 |
|
Pencaitland Primary School |
Fruit Tree Planting |
East Lothian |
Plant a fruit orchard to develop Eco School garden which currently has vegetables and flower planting. |
£119 |
|
Prestonpans Infant School |
Jubilee Orchard |
East Lothian |
Creation of a school orchard. |
£167 |
|
Prestonpans Primary School |
Prestonpans Primary Fruit |
East Lothian |
Enhance a newly created growing area in the school grounds, to be maintained by pupils, teachers and parent volunteers. |
£119 |
|
Arthurlie Family Centre |
Arthurlie Orchard |
East Renfrewshire |
To create a school orchard as part of the on-going development of the school grounds to promote the health and wellbeing of children and families through increased contact with the natural world. |
£150 |
|
National Trust for Scotland |
Grenbank garden |
East Renfrewshire |
To set out a mini-orchard using cordon trees of differing species, to give ideas and inspiration to everyday gardeners on a suburban scale. |
£200 |
|
Bankier Primary |
Eco school |
Falkirk |
To involve children in the sourcing, planting and care of an orchard. |
£238 |
|
Falkirk Council |
Falkirk School Orchards Project Phase II |
Falkirk |
The development, ground preparation, and planting of new orchards within three schools with fruit trees and fruit bushes. |
£390 |
|
Victoria Primary School & Nursery Class |
Maze in celebration of Inner Wheel’s 50th anniversary |
Falkirk |
To plant fruit-bearing trees as part of the maze to enhance the school grounds developments. |
£238 |
|
CLEAR Buckhaven (Community-Led Environmental Action for Regeneration) (Exemplar Project) |
Braehead Therputic Orchard |
Fife |
To turn an area of unused waste ground into a Therapeutic Community Orchard for the residents of Braehead Gardens Care Home and the local community. |
£500 |
|
Friends of Pittencrieff Park |
Lawyer's Garden |
Fife |
To plant an orchard of 12 apple and pear fruit trees, and to maintain the trees and harvest the fruit. |
£300 |
|
Simply Local Kincardine (Exemplar Project) |
Kincardine Community Orchard |
Fife |
To establish Kincardine Community Orchard in a former orchard within Tulliallan Police College grounds which has been identified as a community growing space. |
£500 |
|
St John’s Primary School |
St John’s Field |
Fife |
A Pupil Council initiative to make the school field more interesting and create an area that the children can regularly upkeep. |
£250 |
|
The Friary Community Garden and Orchard (Exemplar Project) |
The Friary Community Garden and Orchard (Planting latter) |
Fife |
To plant an orchard as a continuation of the Friary Community Garden. |
£500 |
|
Battlefield Primary School |
Battlefield Mini Orchard |
Glasgow City |
To enhance and expand the mini orchard we currently have in the school (funded by the CSGN Orchard Grant Scheme 2010 / 2011). |
£240 |
|
Broomhill Primary |
Outdoor Education at Broomhill Primary |
Glasgow City |
To design and develop the school grounds to support tree planting and a small orchard. |
£240 |
|
Dalmarnock Centre |
Climate Challenge Community Garden and Orchard |
Glasgow City |
A project to create a community garden, allotment, orchard and pond. |
£380 |
|
Drummore School |
School orchard |
Glasgow City |
To involve children and members of the local community in establishing and maintaining a small school orchard. |
£320 |
|
G3 Growers |
G3 Growers Back Garden – Fruit Trees |
Glasgow City |
To plant fruit trees in The Back Garden off Brechin Street, to increase variety and provide a long term crop and a fixture for the garden amongst the ever changing raised bed crops. |
£119 |
|
Langside Parish Church |
Eco-Congregation |
Glasgow City |
The aim is to establish a wildlife garden in part of the church grounds. |
£120 |
|
Oakgrove Primary School |
Oakgrove Primary Grounds Project |
Glasgow City |
To create an orchard involving invite parents, business partners and members of the local community. |
£200 |
|
Oatlands Development Trust |
Oatlands Community Orchard |
Glasgow City |
Planting of 14 fruit trees with the aim of engaging children, young people and their families |
£360 |
|
Transitions City of Glasgow College |
Transitions –Gorbals City Garden |
Glasgow City |
Creation of a mini-orchard to enhance an established garden. |
£220 |
|
Wee Green Project/Overnewton Community Centre Association |
Wee Green Project |
Glasgow City |
To add a small orchard to the small, city urban garden created and managed by the local community garden adjoining the local community centre. |
£255 |
|
Notre Dame High School, Greenock |
Notre Dame High School Biodiversity Project |
Inverclyde |
To plant an orchard for use by whole school and wider community as part of the new school grounds development and increase of biodiversity. |
£320 |
|
Newbattle Community High School |
Newbattle Quad Regeneration |
Midlothian |
Regenerating a disused quad into a working garden. |
£150 |
|
Mayfield Primary |
Mayfield Sustainable Community Orchard |
North Ayrshire |
To plant an orchard within the school grounds of Mayfield Primary School. |
£300 |
|
Alexander Peden Primary and Nursery School |
Outdoor Learning (incorporating Eco, Health & Wellbeing, Citizenship, Food Technology) |
North Lanarkshire |
An orchard-creation project to involve pupils, staff, parents and other members of the community, with support from outside agencies. |
£238 |
|
Allanton Primary School |
Garden Gnomes |
North Lanarkshire |
To plant an orchard in unused ground to create outdoor learning space for pupils and neighbours where both can practise gardening / ground improvement skills. |
£120 |
|
Ann Davis / Kildrum Primary School / Salvation Army |
Community Garden |
North Lanarkshire |
A joint project between the Salvation Army and the local primary school to create a community garden beside the church, to involve parents and children in the local area. |
£200 |
|
St Margaret of Scotland Primary School |
“Better Environment Better World” |
North Lanarkshire |
The fruit trees will be used to form a small orchard area in the school grounds separate from the present school vegetable and friendship garden. |
£204 |
|
St. Mary’s Primary School |
Orchard |
North Lanarkshire |
To plant an orchard in the school grounds as part of the Eco-Development Plan. |
£440 |
|
Kibble Education and Care Centre |
Kibble Community Garden |
Renfrewshire |
To plant a variety of apple trees and create an orchard on land next to the existing community garden. The produce grown will be used in the kitchens and served as part of a healthy balanced diet to the young people and staff. |
£250 |
|
Broughton Environment Group |
Broughton Community Orchard |
South Lanarkshire |
Creation of orchard beside the village hall: partnership between Broughton Environment Group and Broughton Primary School. |
£250 |
|
Hamilton Grammar School |
Hamilton Grammar Orchard Project |
South Lanarkshire |
To introduce an orchard to the school grounds. |
£308 |
|
Kirktonholme Primary |
Kirktonholme Orchard |
South Lanarkshire |
Expansion of orchard area started last year with planting of 4 apple trees. |
£170 |
|
Alsorts |
Alsorts Garden Project |
Stirling |
To create an orchard within the garden area as part of a wider re-development of the whole area. |
£222 |
|
Buchlyvie Primary School |
Buchlyvie Orchard |
Stirling |
To create a community orchard planted by Buchlyvie Primary School children, with parents, and local community. |
£280 |
|
Dionne Shaw |
Craigton Orchard |
Stirling |
Regeneration of an ancient orchard on a historic farm. |
£210 |
|
Fallin Primary School |
An Orchard for Fallin PS |
Stirling |
Creating an orchard in Fallin Primary School grounds. |
£300 |
|
Green Routes |
Green Routes Orchard and Bee Project |
Stirling |
To plant an orchard of apple trees of Scottish provenance, train existing and new trees as free-standing, cordons, espalier, fan-trained and step-over trees. The Development Manager will be trained in orchard management. Biodiversity will be enhanced around the bee-hives with the creation of a wild-flower area. |
£350 |
|
Riverside Community Council |
Community Orchard |
Stirling |
Promotion of fruit growing in what is historically an orchard area (Blairlogie, Cambuskenneth). Scottish varieties of apples, plums & pears are known to thrive locally. |
£340 |
|
Riverside Primary School Stirling (Grounds and Environment Group, Parent Council) |
Orchard Training Days |
Stirling |
Training children and teachers with Margaret Miller to learn how prune and maintain the existing orchard trees, and harvest and use the fruit. |
£200 |
|
St Modan's High School |
MER Group, St Modan's High School |
Stirling |
To plant 6/7 fruit trees in and around the school grounds |
£158 |
|
Stirling Council (Countryside Sites) |
Plean Country Park Orchard |
Stirling |
Creating an orchard network to be planted and managed in partnership with Stirling Council Ranger Service and the Friends of Plean Country Park community group and will allow an orchard training event to take place in February 2012. |
£500 |
|
Stirling Council in partnership with Avenue Park Allotments Association, Bridge of Allan |
Avenue Park Allotments Orchard |
Stirling |
Avenue Park Allotments Orchard Project will establish an orchard in vacant allotment land to the north of the allotment plots, close to student and residential accommodation. The location will allow this orchard to be a demonstration area, showing the community the benefits of fruit growing and encouraging similar projects to be started in other places such as Cornton, or other allotment sites in the Stirling Council Area. |
£300 |
|
Strathblane Primary School |
Strathblane Primary School Orchard |
Stirling |
Creation of a new school orchard within the grounds of Strathblane Primary School. |
£159 |
|
Oatridge College – Oatridge Conservation Team |
Oatridge and Ecclesmachan Community Orchard |
West Lothian |
To create and manage an orchard with education, conservation and sustainability in mind, with the students and staff of Oatridge College working in partnership with volunteers from the local community. |
£380 |
|
TOTAL |
£16,595 |
Forth Environment Link CSGN 294
The Forth Valley Orchard Initiative is funded by the Central Scotland Green Network Development Fund. The Central Scotland Green Network Orchard Grant Scheme 2011/2012, which is part of the initiative, covers the whole of the CSGN area.
