Join us for the Big Help Out!

Heard of the Big Help Out? It’s the chance to join others to make a difference in your community this spring. From its launch on 8 May’s Coronation Bank Holiday, we’ll be blitzing through jobs with projects that make volunteering easy, welcoming and worthwhile. Through the Big Help Out you

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Easter Family Trail – book now!

Get ready to hop along to our Easter family event, Good Friday, 7 April, noon-3pm! Hunt for animal clues along our Path of the Little People trail, get busy in the mud kitchen, toast marshmallows at the fire-pit, visit the story-teller and try your luck at tombola! Have a shot

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Odd-job helper needed

2023’s shaping up to be another busy year for us. We have some odd jobs we’d ideally like done before Christmas to help us get ahead. We’ll be recruiting volunteers again but in the meantime, if you have skills you can share and have a couple of days to spare,

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Halloween tricks and treats!

We’re excited to be hosting Twilight in the Tent, a community event for our friends and their families! We’ll be bringing down the (haunted) house as dusk falls on Sunday 30 October with activities in our grounds and marquee – go on a scary scavenger hunt before picking a pumpkin

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Edinburgh Botanics students

Bringing people together has all sorts of benefits for personal development – growing confidence, group work and peer support to name a few. For a long time it wasn’t possible for groups to gain these benefits through residentials, with young people really suffering as a result. We’ve loved being able

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October holiday ready for action!

Jump into autumn with our week of activities for children during the school break. From Monday October 17 to Friday 21, we’ll keep children warm and busy – toasting marshmallows, carving pumpkins, rafting and building dens plus… a day of video making with special guests from BBC TV! Every day

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