Archive for category: Blog

18.09201518th September 2015

Your canal needs you!

By GemmaIn BlogTags archaeology, canal college, conservation, forth and clyde canal, heritage, the Union Canal, volunteering

Fancy helping to preserve a significant part of Scotland’s industrial past? We’ve had volunteers out recently maintaining and protecting two historic canalside locations: the old...

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14.09201514th September 2015

Heritage Lottery Fund looking to appoint committee members

By IainIn BlogTags funders, heritage, jobs

Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) are looking to appoint three committee members to join their Scotland Committee in 2016. They are an inclusive organisation and keen to...

03.0920153rd September 2015

The Kirk on the Canal

By RoseIn BlogTags community, community garden, conservation, Edinburgh, scottish canals, the Union Canal

Polwarth Parish Church in Edinburgh is located beside The Union Canal but a new imaginative initiative in partnership with Scottish Canals and the Armed Forces...

01.0920151st September 2015

Community Fundraiser needed for Scotland’s only waterways charity

By IainIn BlogTags community, fundraising, jobs, scottish canals

Sessional Post – 104 days over 1 year (average 2 days per week) Daily Rate £125 per day Based at SWT Falkirk Office Immediate start...

27.08201527th August 2015

Community groups and local businesses come together to conserve historic canals

By RoseIn BlogTags bowling, communities, glasgow, local businesses, scottish canals, the forth & clyde canal, volunteering, volunteers

Members of local canalside communities have picked up paint brushes, spades and seed packets to conserve and protect their historic local waterways. Co-ordinated by canal...

27.08201527th August 2015

Vegware have adopted a stretch of the Union Canal in Edinburgh!

By RoseIn BlogTags canal adopters, Edinburgh, education, john muir award, schools, the Union Canal, vegware

We’re delighted to announce that award-winning, eco-friendly packaging manufacturers Vegware have adopted a stretch of The Union Canal in Edinburgh, and what’s more are now...

27.08201510th September 2015

Scottish Waterways Trust launches Green Action training programme to improve young people’s job prospects in Falkirk

By RoseIn BlogTags employability, green action, jobs, the falkirk wheel, the forth & clyde canal, the Union Canal, volunteering, volunteers, young people

Scottish Waterways Trust is now recruiting applicants for Green Action, a free youth employability programme based at The Falkirk Wheel. Made possible with Young Start...

26.08201526th August 2015