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RSPB in Pilrig Park – Monday!

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This coming Monday (18th July) the RSPB will be at Pilrig Park running lots of activities for you to get involved in – from minibeast hunts to bird watching, nature’s colours and lots of other fun activities. This is to celebrate Love Parks Week, celebrating how great our local green spaces are. We will also be making homes for nature in a craft activity. Come and explore your local park and find all the creepy crawlies that live within it!

Where: Pilrig Park, Edinburgh

When: We will be there from 10am until 3pm on Monday 18th July

What to bring: Stout footwear and maybe a raincoat!

Friends of Pilrig Park want to hear from YOU!

(adapted from an email from Friends of Pilrig Park)

Firstly a big ‘thank you’ to everyone who came along on Sunday to help tidy up the park. There was a great turn out and the park now looks immaculate!

We have, however, been getting a lot of comments recently about the state of the small play park (to the north of the park). The Friends of Pilrig Park are looking to work with City of Edinburgh Council to try to improve the facilities and it would be great to have your input into this.

Please can you complete a very quick (7 question!) survey to let us know your thoughts and ideas about the small play park. At this stage we can not promise anything but it would be great to have an idea of what people would want to see in this part of the park. The survey is completely anonymous and can be accessed via the following link: https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/6CXZVNT

Also, if you would like to come along to talk about this further – give us your thoughts and suggestions –  there is a public meeting specifically about the small play park scheduled between 6.00-7.00pm on Wednesday 25th May at the McDonald Road Library. Even if you have completed the survey it would be great to see you there as we can get more information and start to pull together a plan of action!

Thank you for all your help.

Friends of Pilrig Park public meeting: Monday 11 April

(adapted from an email from Friends of Pilrig Park)

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The Friends of Pilrig Park will be holding a public meeting on Monday, 11th April from 6.00-7.30pm at the McDonald Road Library. As always, FoPP is keen to hear your ideas and suggestions about how to continue to improve the park, so please do come along.

Over the last few months FoPP received a lot of comments about the state of the small play park (in particular since the slide was removed after it was deemed unsafe by City of Edinburgh Council). The Council have since said that they will not be replacing this equipment, so it seems unlikely that any further money will be spent on upgrading the play park in the near future. Continue reading →