Get ready for a new community greenspace grant programme
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Get ready for a new community greenspace grant programme. Could your greenspace project benefit from funding? If so, then get ready for a new community grant programme!
Category: Guest blog
Re-booting Ravenswood Marsh Conservation Group
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Ravenswood Marsh is a beautiful area of Cumbernauld that used to have an active ‘Friends of Group’ that enjoyed, protected and promoted it. However, after the recent folding of Seafar and Ravenswood Community Council, interest in the group has fallen away. Luckily, local Carrick Crawford is regenerating interest in this superb place and explains his plans for this year in the following blog.
Friends of Cumbernauld House Park's #LivingWindow
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Adam Smith, Chair of Friends of Cumbernauld House Park, shares his experiences of working with Cumbernauld Living Landscape and artist Emily Shepherd to produce their #LivingWindow.
An outer space landscape in Cumbernauld!
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Artist Emily Shepherd shares her experiences of the #LivingWindow project, reflecting on play areas, outer space landscapes and the importance of green areas to Cumbernauld's collective identity.
Watch Us Grow's #LivingWindow
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We are really looking forward to the launch of the Cumbernauld #LivingWindow project. This exciting and innovative project will show Cumbernauld’s green spaces at their best, and it will be fun to see how the other Community Group’s views of their local community and its wonderful green spaces.
The story behind the #LivingWindow artworks
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When I first went to Cumbernauld I was unprepared for how beautiful a place I’d find it. To believe the negative images portrayed in some past media would be a terrible shame. The Cumbernauld I now know more resembles the idyllic images conjured in the classic film ‘Gregory’s Girl’, with children playing outdoors exploring the landscape in the sun on lazy afternoons and evenings.