Join Buglife Conservation Officer Kate O’Leary for a day of hay raking to help improve wildflower meadows for biodiversity! This work will rake off meadow cuttings from a site which was planted and seeded with volunteers last year at Kingsway, Peebles. Volunteers can also learn more about meadow management and native wildflower species. Light refreshments […]

Launching in 2028, the River Tweed Trail will be one of the UK’s newest walking and cycling routes, following the course of the river from Moffat to Berwick-upon-Tweed. At approximately 113 miles, The River Tweed Trail will provide day and multi-day activities connecting communities, businesses and attractions along the river. Users of the trail will […]

Join Connecting Threads for a very special Bedtime at the River where we will meet Bat and Moth, finding out what they do at our bedtime. We’ll be making shadow puppets and using them in our special yew tree puppet theatre, learning about bats and moths, experiencing music, story and song with sound artist Kate […]

Join the Uncovering the Tweed and Borders Forest Trust teams for a walk around the BFT site at Corehead, Moffat. We will meet outside the Moffat Town Hall to travel together to the start of the walk in taxis. The walk is on the BFT site at Corehead and Ericstane and the intended route will […]

Join the Uncovering the Tweed and Borders Forest Trust teams for a walk around the BFT sites Talla and Gameshope. We will meet in Tweedsmuir to coordinate car sharing, talk through the archaeology in the wider landscape and then proceed to Talla Reservoir parking where the walk will start. The walk is on the BFT […]

Borders Forest Trust and Connecting Threads are delighted to present an intimate acoustic performance by harpist, composer and singer Esther Swift. The performance will take place under cover at Corehead, a site being developed by Borders Forest Trust to restore native woodland and wetland in this corner of the Southern Uplands. Esther Swift explores ritual, […]