by Jonathan Louis | Wednesday, December 16, 2020
Water Training Sessions for Local Litter Picking Groups As part of our RiverLife small grants scheme we have been working with community groups around the district to help to supply them with litter picking equipment, so people can get out there and help clean up...
by Jonathan Louis | Wednesday, December 16, 2020
Resilient Rivers Photography Exhibition During the early stages of lockdown, when people were only able to go outside once a day, we ran an online photography exhibition to encourage people to spend that precious outdoors time by their local river or burn. The theme...
by Jonathan Louis | Wednesday, December 16, 2020
Nature Activity Kits for West Lothian Communities This year during the period when people had to spend much more time at home and in the garden than usual, RiverLife worked with community groups around West Lothian to create nature-based activity kits that were sent...
by Jonathan Louis | Wednesday, December 16, 2020
Virtual Volunteering As the initial lockdown and response to the pandemic unfolded it became apparent that things at the Trust were going to be very different in 2020. An important aspect of the RiverLife project focusses on the activities we carry out with...
by Jonathan Louis | Wednesday, December 16, 2020
Tree Planting for Aspen in the Class The world has changed in the wake of COVID 19, but some things have not changed. The RiverLife team and our volunteers are still – albeit in an adapted and socially distanced way – hard at work making improvements around the...
by Jonathan Louis | Friday, December 11, 2020
Kids activity packs a success during the summer restrictions With one of our regular graphics designers (Alan Tait) we created some fun activity packs for families looking for things to do during the travel restricted summer months. We had feedback about kids enjoying...