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….