Campbeltown Town Hall

02/07/2024

01/07/2024

01/07/2024

DAY 1 - Join millions of people worldwide in taking small steps to reduce plastic pollution this July! 🌍

For ideas and solutions on how to get started, have a look at our new Plastic Free July downloadable calendar. Click the link below to sign up for the challenge, and you’ll receive a free calendar 📆 in your welcome letter 💌.

This resource offers popular small steps to consider throughout July—and beyond—for reducing plastic waste in your home and everyday life.

What plastic free small steps are you considering this July? We’d love to hear your ideas so please share your plans and inspire others!

https://www.plasticfreejuly.org/take-the-challenge/

01/07/2024

🦋 Gateway Garden update! 🌻
🍿 To mark the progress and achievements at The Gateway Garden so far, the South Kintyre Development Trust Kintyre Grows team and volunteers (pictured below) had a much deserved, and educational, trip to the Campbeltown Picture House to see ‘Wilding’ the fascinating story of Knepp Wilding.
(🎬Also a great opportunity to support our amazing local cinema!)
🐝 Following this inspiring film, we’ll be further developing the wilder aspects of the Gateway Garden tomorrow, planting some native and pollinator-loving flowers and shrubs. Anyone welcome to join in, Tuesday 2-5pm
We not only need to thank all the volunteers and community groups for their help so far, but also none of it would have been possible without funding from The Crown Estate, The Common Good Fund, The Post Code Lottery and Grow Wild, each of which have funded specific elements of the project, from volunteer support to wild flower seeds. We’re not finished yet but it’s definitely taking shape.
Please note - there will be no volunteer session this Wednesday!

25/06/2024

🎂🎈 Happy Birthday Anshu!🎈🎂
🌱 Shanti started volunteering at The Gateway Garden in the spring, following a recommendation by Workingrite Argyll. She soon became indispensable and we’re delighted she’s now a much valued member of the South Kintyre Development Trust with the Kintyre Grows Team.
🎵 Thank you for all your hard work and great tunes Shanti!
Shanti won’t be joining us tomorrow as she’ll be at home celebrating her younger brother’s birthday. Her brother, Anshu, has stage 4 cancer and we wanted to mark his birthday tomorrow by sharing his Just Giving Page for his very own Garden Den.
💚 https://www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/AvengerAnshu-Den?utm_term=w4kw3EjN5

24/06/2024

How can you rewild a garden? We have taken what we’ve learned from the rewilding project at Knepp to show you how.

24/06/2024

Nice one, - ahead of the game with the Campbeltown EcoCups! (Less than 50 of the limited edition cups still available...) What's your for ?

24/06/2024

From today (Friday) for a week's worth of screening only the wonderful documentary WILDING.

It tells the incredible story of a young couple who bet on nature for the future of their failing, four-hundred-year-old estate. They set to work with their groundbreaking vision, battling entrenched tradition and major forces along the way, daring to place the fate of their farm in the hands of nature. Ripping down the fences, they set the land back to the wild and entrust its recovery to a motley mix of animals both tame and wild. It is the beginning of a grand experiment that will become one of the most significant rewilding experiments in Europe and beyond.

18/06/2024

12/06/2024

Dalintober Family Partnership Coffee Morning this coming Saturday 10am -12pm

10/06/2024

🪲 This Tuesday, Ed will be at The Gateway Garden, 2pm-5pm, developing the biodiversity areas. All Welcome! And Wednesday 2pm Hannah will be making Elderflower Cordial at The Gateway Garden Tea Shed. Come along to learn where’s best to forage for these abundant flowers and how to make this refreshing drink from nature’s larder !🍸

06/06/2024

All set for the weekend! Tickets still available locally from AP Taylor and online from Eventbrite

27/05/2024

In a report released on January 5 2018, the Environmental Audit Committee set out a strategy for the UK to deal with the waste resulting from the British pub...

19/05/2024

Everyone Welcome at The Gateway Garden Tuesday 2pm-5pm for seed sowing, bed building and preparation and always some wheel barrowing!
Wednesday 2pm - 6pm more of the same and our BIG SEEDLING AND PLANT SWOP 🌱
📷 Our Scottish 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 wild flower seeds have arrived for the native biodiversity areas in the Gateway Garden, thanks to funding and support from Grow Wild

17/05/2024

Shopper-Aide needs our help! Please support this vital service if you can.

to help us continue our vital work with the over-60s in South Kintyre, helping them maintain independent living through our shopping, housekeeping, laundry and extra help services…

17/05/2024

"Thanks to the Royal Society of Edinburgh we at SKDT we are looking into the unique biodiversity of Campbeltown.
Ed Tyler is the researcher for the project and wants to collaborate with as many folk in the town as possible. Please snap pictures of plants, insects, birds and other animals you spot in the town (with a map pin) and send them to him at [email protected] or to the page kintyre grows (he is setting up wildlife areas in the Gateway Garden).
The picture he's taken is of wild garlic in flower in The Cutting. Wild garlic is what is known as an "indicator" plant and it tells us that the site is ancient woodland. It's still surrounded by trees - and this little plant tells us that there have been trees on this site for hundreds - if not thousands - of years.
So plants can tell us about the past.

16/05/2024

SEED, SEEDLING AND PLANT SWOP EVENT! 🌱
Wednesday 22nd May 2pm-6pm Gateway Garden (behind THe Fiddlers)
Grown too many courgettes? (yep! 🤣) Got over excited with the seed catalogues? Need some plants to fill your new veg bed? Come along to donate, swop or help yourself.
All will be free or donations to the Kintyre Grows project welcome.
Any plants left at the end will be given to local schools, Nurseries, other growing groups or used in the Gateway Garden.
See you there 😊

16/05/2024

Our new volunteer's shed has arrived at the Gateway Garden.

14/05/2024

🌱Join us at the Gateway Garden tomorrow (Tuesday) and Wednesday 2pm-5pm.
🦋 On Tuesday we’ll be joined by Ed Tyler, leading a biodiversity survey of the site for our Grow Wild project. We’ll also be clearing a bed for planting, creating more beds, sowing seeds and having a blether!
📷 One of the resident toads in the polytunnel where our seedlings for the garden and community groups are germinating. We don’t use slug pellets, protecting the toads so they can eat the slugs for us! 🐸 😊

08/05/2024

06/05/2024

Let’s get growing!🌱
This week we’ll be at the Gateway Garden Tuesday and Wednesday 2pm-5pm.
We’ll be preparing beds, sowing and planting.
Our group of growers have their own raised bed, so if you’d like to grow your own food come and join us 🥕
📷 Borage flowering in our polytunnel, edible, perfect for pollinators and soon to be growing at the Gateway Garden.

02/05/2024

As well as being a great help volunteering at The Gateway Garden, Alistair McKinlay is clocking up the miles to raise money for Prostate Cancer Reaearch.
Click the link to find out more-
https://www.facebook.com/donate/958465848833590/?fundraiser_source=external_url
He certainly got in a good distance with the barrow today! 💪🙏