What a Success!!

We would like to say a hug thank you to everyone who came along to Fallin Bings project celebration event at Fallin Miners Welfare and Social Club on Tuesday night. The event was a great success and 15 members of the local community came along to learn what the project has achieved over the past year through this All Our Stories Heritage Lottery Funded project as well as the work that Stirling Council have been doing in Fallin and what we want to do in the future through the Inner Forth Landscape Initiative and how people can get involved through Butterfly Conservations work on Wester Moss.  

Harry Woolner, TCV Natural Communities trainee, who organised the event, did a fantastic job with his short talk about the project and he really highlighted how important the site is for both the people and the wildlife. We would also like to thank Scott Mason from Stirling Council ranger service that came along and did a short talk about how the council are involved in the site and what future plans we have for habitat creation and management as well as how local people can get involved in further activities. 

Harry talking to event attendees about the All Our Stories project at Fallin

We then put on the film that has been made about the project and the history of the site, largely thanks to the interview with Jock Thomson. The film was received very well and people enjoyed seeing their local area on the big screen. If you haven’t yet seen the film it can be viewed at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzLifCIzscU

Scott Maosn from Stirling Council Ranger Service came along to talk about the councils work at Fallin

Feedback forms were handed out to find out what people would like to see in their area, what they think about the work that has happened on the Bing and any feedback about what they would like to see more of. Overall, the feedback was really positive and people are really keen to get involved with further habitat creation days, wildlife walks and even photography classes.

This is the end of the project but not quite the blog….yet! There will be a further update about the project and its future plans soon so watch this space….

Celebration event date confirmed!

We can now confirm the celebration event for the All Our Stories project at Fallin Bing as the date stated in the last blog on the evening of Tuesday the 25^th of March. The event will be held at Fallin Miners Welfare and Social Club (FK7 7HT) from 6pm-8pm and everyone is welcome to come along for part or all of the evening. Cake, biscuits and juice will be provided hopefully along with tea and coffee.

Come along and celebrate the history and future of Fallin Bing on the evening of the 25th of March (c) Scott Shanks.

Harry Woolner who is organising the event is planning a couple of short talks about the project, Fallin’s history and the wildlife found at Fallin along with the showing of the project video, which can be viewed at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzLifCIzscU

There will also be opportunities for attendees to share their ideas of what they would like to see happen on the Bing and the reasons they use the site today. Buglife will be there along with Ami Crozier a TCV Natural Communities trainee with Butterfly Conservation and there will be a display and leaflets about the Inner Forth Landscape Initiative who have projects in and around Fallin.

For more information about the event and any questions about the project please contact Harry on harry.woolner@buglife.org.uk and 01786 447504.

Project Celebration Event!

We are close to confirming our project celebration event at Fallin. So far it looks like it will be Tuesday the 25^th of March at Fallin Miners Welfare and Social Club (FK7 7HT) from 6pm-8pm. Harry (TCV Natural Communities trainee) who is organising the event is hoping to confirm the date this weekend.

Everyone is welcome to attend the event and get involved in our celebration of Fallin Bing. You can watch the film ‘From Coalfield to Brownfield’, hear short talks celebrating the Bing’s history and wildlife, and share your ideas of what could happen on the Bing in the future.  This event will allow us to complete this project and also allow us to continue our work at the site. 

Come along to our celebration event and tell us your thoughts on Fallin Bing.

The film about the project seems to have been making its rounds of Fallin and Jock has had people speak to him about it while out visiting the shop. We are so glad that we have been able to make this film as part of the heritage of this project and hope people will continue to enjoy watching it. If you haven’t seen it yet check it out here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzLifCIzscU

As I have said we hope to confirm the date of the event this weekend and I will have more details about this next week. For more information about the celebration event please contact Harry Woolner on 01786 447504 and harry.woolner@buglife.org.uk.