The charity behind Stirling’s popular click and collect farmers’ market has been awarded over £208,000 from the EU to roll out the model across rural Scotland. The funding comes from a joint collaboration between four Scottish Rural Network LEADER programmes, Forth Valley & Lomond, Perth & Kinross, Fife and Scottish Borders, through the European Agricultural [...]
Thornhill’s stunning Sea King helicopter holiday home will go head to head with other innovative tourism businesses at next week’s Scottish Thistle Awards – Visit Scotland’s answer to the Oscars. After winning the Innovation in Tourism category at the regional final in November, Helicopter Glamping will now compete against four other businesses in the national [...]
Cabinet Secretary for Transport, Infrastructure and Connectivity Michael Matheson was in Falkirk today to celebrate Falkirk Active Travel Hub’s 1st birthday (22nd February). The project, run by charity Forth Environment Link, encourages locals to ditch the car in favour of more active and greener modes of transport such as walking and cycling. Mr Matheson said: “It’s a [...]
A Forth Valley charity has become the first employer in Scotland to earn a Paths for All Walk at Work Award. Forth Environment Link achieved the accolade for its commitment to promoting walking at work, from equipping staff with pedometers to organising lunchtime meanders for employees. The environmental charity, which has Active Travel Hubs in [...]
Forth Environment Link is starting 2019 in a wheely good way by giving out 250 discount vouchers for Stirling’s public bike share scheme, nextbike. In a bid to alleviate transport poverty, the charity is offering locals struggling with transport costs a year’s membership for just £3 (normally £60). Bike share officer Chris James said: “We’re [...]
Stirling has narrowly missed out on the chance to be the next European Volunteering Capital 2020, losing out to the Italian city of Padua. But the city has vowed to continue with its plans for a year-long festival of volunteering in 2020 and has renewed its commitment to increasing volunteering participation to 50%. Stirling’s bid [...]
Stirling has witnessed a surge in volunteer numbers. According to the latest Scottish Household survey 39% of people in Stirling volunteer – more than 10% above Scotland’s national average (28%). The figure equates to approximately 30,500 volunteers involved in formal volunteering through an organisation or group – an increase of 7% from the previous year. [...]
Helicopter Glamping has landed a top regional tourism award from Visit Scotland. The unique Stirlingshire holiday home won the Innovation in Tourism category at the Thistle Awards – the tourism industry’s answer to the ‘Oscars’ – held at Prestonfield House, Edinburgh on 15 November. Owner Louise Cross said: “We’re honoured to have landed this award [...]
Stirling NeighbourFood, run by local charity Forth Environment Link, has been named as an outstanding rural innovation at the 2018 Scottish Rural Innovators Awards. Held every two years, the awards are organised by Scottish Rural Action to highlight excellence in rural innovation in meeting the needs of rural communities. The winning projects will all be [...]
Scotland’s First Minister has backed Stirling’s bid to be named European Volunteering Capital. Speaking of the city’s vision to increase volunteering participation in Stirling to 50% and decrease the poverty related volunteering gap through a year-long festival of volunteering in 2020, Nicola Sturgeon said: “Volunteering is one of the greatest expressions of Scotland’s values and of [...]
