We will be supporting the Glencairn Land & Woods Trust with their Tree Planting on Sunday 17th March. We will meet by Moniaive Primary School and walk from there round to the planting site by Cairn Pool. Please do come along and plant a tree – everyone is welcome, but children must be supervised, and due to lambing we’re not able to accept dogs on this work party, thanks.

Are you interested in fermenting food? This workshop will give you an introduction to the process and is ideal for beginners. All the details are below, but please note that BOOKING is essential!

Starting this week at The Hive, we are introducing a Digital Buddies session to help you with all things technical and internet. You don’t need an appointment, just drop in and have a chat. If you need help with a smartphone, tablet or laptop, please bring that along.

Thanks to those who joined us for the Paths Event in February.

We started the day by offering a “Wax your Walking Boots” session at the Repair Cafe, followed by a warming lunch of Soup and a Roll, before heading out for an early afternoon walk.

Our walk took us out of the Glencairn Memorial Institute and along Chapel Street to the the Waulkmill Bridge. From there we cut through fields and along the river bank to Blackstone Bridge, before re-joining the river bank to walk along to Holmhead. We crossed the fields to re-join the ‘back road’ beside Blackstone Cottage, returning into Moniaive via Blackstone Bridge and the river bank back to Waulkmill bridge. It was a lovely (almost circular) walk taking in fields, narrow river banks, fields and roads, and giving us views of beautiful swathes of snowdrops along the river, and red kites over the fields.

Finally, it was back to the Glencairn Memorial Institute for a presentation by Luke Phillips from the Ramblers, who explained all about their Paths Mapping Project, and how communities like ours can get involved.

If you missed the Presentation, it is available to view now as a short video on our N76 page (under the PROJECTS tab).

Thanks to Rosie from CES, Luke from the Ramblers, and Katie (our Glencairn Health & Wellbeing Project Officer) for all their help with this event!