Greener Leith

Friends of Dalmeny Street Park are offering a fantastic opportunity for local people to get involved in building planters that will go in the park. Volunteers will be offered the chance to work with Greame Murray, a local sculptor and teacher as well as other professional woodworkers from the Woodschool, near Jedburgh. 

Looks like a great way to pick up some wood working skills from the experts. Places are limited, so if you're interested you should download the flyer here.

The next meeting of The Friends of Dalmeny Street Park will be held in Out of the Blue's Drill Hall at 7pm on Thursday 6 December (36 Dalmeny Street, Leith).

We'll be celebrating our many achievements this year and anyone interested in this community's activies is welcome.  A wee exhibition of these achivements will include:

• Some of the work that local young people have been doing with Streetwork on their views and desires for the park
• Lorne Primary School's work on ideas for the playpark and their ECO Committee's plans for improving the greenspace
• A short film from the Beanland Film Company of the very successful Streetball Tournaments we've held this year
• An announcement of the FDSP Planters Project, a community project funded by Scottish Natural Heritage that will provide a community growing space to encourage biodiversity and continue to improve the park's natural environment

Saturday, 25 August - Dalmeny Street Park

So who says basketball isn’t popular in Scotland?  

After the success of the first tournament in June, The Friends of Dalmeny Street Park, in association with Out of the Blue, brings you another Parklife basketball tournament for over 16s.  

If you’d like to play, meet people and fundraise for this fantastic local park, contact Elric on elric_vh@yahoo.co.uk.  (£1 suggested donation per player and a basketball, generously provided by our Community Council, goes to the winning team.)

Not only that, a 5-a-side footie game is being organised by the Leith Youth Action Team for under 16s so, if football's your game, please come along.

Finally, being the Greener Leith site, FDSP is of course committed to improving the greenspace of the park.  We're hoping for some spare plants from the Council and, if we get those in time, anyone interested in a bit of gardening to help improve our new beds is very welcome.

If you'd like to know more about The Friends of Dalmeny Street Park and how you can get involved in the increasing activities that the park is playing host to, please contact Rob on 0131 555 7101 or Lise on mail@lisebratton.com. 

The Friends of Dalmeny Street Park have alerted us to an event they're organising as part of this summers Leith Festival on Saturday the 2nd of June.  There will be a basketball competition billed as Poland vs The Rest of the World. But if that sounds like too much hard work that's not all that's going on. You may already know that the 'Friends' have been incredibly successful at securing funding for improving the play facilities in the park. The Friends want to use this event to give everyone a chance to join pupils from Lorne Primary Schools Eco-committee in putting together proposals for the new look play park.

To find out more about the event you can download the flyer.