Save Our Meadows
The Campaign continues
Meadows Festival
The Meadows Festival will take place soon, 2nd and 3rd June. The organisers have asked FoMBL to give them some publicity:
The Meadows Festival is still taking applications for stallholders to trade at the long-running event, this year to be held on the 2nd & 3rd June.
Interest has been high, but we still have spaces remaining. From arts and crafts, through vintage clothing and antiques, to books, charities, and children's items, the Festival attracts a broad range of different traders.
If you're interested in taking a stall, head over to the stalls page of the Meadows Festival website and download a copy of the stalls form - apply by Monday 14th May to get a mention in the Festival Programme!
We've got an exciting line-up planned, but we need some help to make it happen - from you?
Head to the Volunteers page if you can give a couple of hours over the weekend to make the Festival run smoothly - we are entirely volunteer run!
Barbecues
The scene on the Meadows in the recent warm weather. (Front page of the Scotsman, 28/3/12. Photo Ian Rutherford)
Barbecue damage to the Meadows and Links is one of the things that concerns us. (See Current Issues page).
Here is an article from the Evening News on the topic.
Our advice - if you do barbecue on the Meadows or the Links:
- Use one of the BBQ slabs or a barbecue on a stand
- Don't put a hot barbecue on the grass
- Wait for it to cool before you dispose of it
- Please take your rubbish home - the bins aren't big enough
- Don't ever BBQ on the golf course or the cricket squares
See the Council's leaflet on responsible barbecue use
here.
Another Protest!
'Stop the Tax on Creativity' is the slogan of a small protest group unhappy about the proposal for a Scottish public entertainment licensing fee, even for free public events. Here they are on Bruntsfield Links, on 1st April (no, it's not an April fool!) For more information, visit
www.reform-pel-scotland.co.uk.
How about volunteering?
Would you like to help us with some little jobs around the Meadows and Links? If so look
here. Next work party 27/5/2012.
Global Warming
This topic was touched on at our Spring meeting. See
this article from the Edinburgh Biodiversity Partnership.
Wifi on the Meadows?
See
this article on Cllr Cameron Rose's Blog.
Camping on the Meadows?
There is no chance that camping will be allowed on the Meadows. See
this letter from the Council Leader, Jenny Dawe, and
this article in the Evening News.
Oh really? How come Occupy were allowed to camp there for 10 days then? What are we to make of it? See
Councillor Cameron Rose's Blog, and the
Evening News on 30/1/2012 and
again on 31/1/2012 on this.
A more recent article in the Student can be found
here. This details the costs involved.
Disease and storms take their toll. We must plant replacements for all the trees we are losing.
But there is hope of more planting, according to
Councillor Cameron Rose.
What concerns us
Addressing the AGM in June 2011, retiring Convener Chris Wigglesworth spoke of a number of concerns about the Meadows and Bruntsfield Links. Council policies, and particularly those of the South Central Neighbourhood Partnership were causing concern in the following areas:
- Tree planting and management
- Blossom tree replacement
- Barbecue damage
- The state of the grass
- Events policy
- The need for better toilet facilities
- Recyling and litter removal
- Restoration of the Jawbones
- Park Ranger cover
The new committee will be trying to address these issues in the coming months. Any support you can give would be much appreciated. Do get in touch. (See
Contacts page)
Please go to our
Current Issues page to find out more about these concerns.
See the latest newsletter here
Meadows Chamber Orchestra
Although they are nothing to do with FoMBL, the orchestra are good friends of ours, so we like to give them some publicity here.
For further information
see their website.
© 2012 FoMBL
'Stop the Tax on Creativity' is the slogan of a small protest group unhappy about the proposal for a Scottish public entertainment licensing fee, even for free public events. Here they are on Bruntsfield Links, on 1st April (no, it's not an April fool!) For more information, visit www.reform-pel-scotland.co.uk.