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Watch Us Grow Nursey, Cumbernauld


Organisation: Watch Us Grow
Town/City: Cumbernauld
Postcode: G67 3HU
Description: The project has been open since March 1999 and since then students and volunteers have been reclaiming a nursery at Palacerigg Country Park in Cumbernauld. The site had been left unused for some time so needed careful planning and lots of hard work to establish an organic nursery plant capable of sustaining long term use.
North Lanarkshire
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Coatshill & Thornhill Community Hall


Organisation: Coatshill & Thornhill Community Hall
Town/City: Blantyre
Description: This project was primarily a planting scheme which included some hard landscaping and fencing around a popular community hall.
South Lanarkshire

Norse Mill & Grain Kiln


Organisation: Norse Mill & Grain Kiln
Town/City: Isle of Lewis
Postcode: HS2 9BD
Description: This is a good example of the local community caring for an historic site in their local environment that would otherwise be lost. They have done this by setting up an organisation specifically to renovate and maintain the building. In the process they have made it accessible to the local community and the public as an educational facility.
Comhairle nan Eilean Siar (Western Isles)
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Lower Garrawy Glen Footpath


Organisation: Lower Garrawy Glen Footpath
Town/City: Helensburgh
Postcode: G64 8P2
Description: The Access Forum set up the Garrawy Glen Footpath Project as part of their paths strategy to improve an existing but much-neglected path on the outskirts of Helensburgh. The path had the potential to be both a pleasant walk in itself and also a useful link to other paths taking walkers further into the countryside.
Argyll and Bute
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Gordon Community Woodland


Organisation: Gordon Community Woodland Trust
Town/City: Gordon
Postcode: TD3 6JL
Description: The Gordon Community Woodland Trust bought local woodland in July 2002. The trust runs a programme of events to get the local community involved in the woodland and has ongoing projects to develop the woodland for recreation.
Scottish Borders
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