Be Inspired – Our Seed Funded Projects
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Action for Climate & Environment Newburgh received funding for an interactive game aiming to make climate learning fun.
Ballater Climate Action Network used their funds to purchase wildflower seed bombs to engage the local community and improve the local biodiversity.
Deeside Climate Action Network received funding to put towards their Wee Forest in Banchory.
Tarland Paths successfully repaired an old drove road reenabling access to the Jubilee Wood and hills to the North.
The community woodland is an important part of our project, both to offset our carbon footprint and also to raise awareness of how many trees would be needed to do so for each commuting journey.
Gardening is all trial and error, don't be afraid to make mistakes - patience is the key!
How Bad are Bananas
With funds from NESCAN's Seed Funding 2021 - 2020 opportunity, Action for Climate & Environment Newburgh were able to invest in creating an interactive How Bad are Bananas game.
The game was created with the intention to be used at events with local primary schools, local guides & scouts, as well as with other NESCAN members & community groups to help make learning about climate action fun.
Community Seeds
In 2021 NESCAN's Seed Funding provided funds to Ballater Climate Action Network in order for them to purchase wildflower seed bombs and loose seeds.
The seeds were then planted by the local primary school pupils & villagers around Ballater village and along roadside verges, adding life, colour and increasing biodiversity in the area.
Banchory's Wee Forest
Thanks to NESCAN's seed funding, Deeside CAN were able to purchase deer & rabbit proof fencing, as well as banners & signposts for their Wee Forest in Banchory.
Tarland Paths
Tarland Paths used their funding from NESCAN's seed fund to repair an old access road, allowing walkers to access Jubilee Wood and surrounding hills to the North of Tarland with ease.
The group were able to use the funds to install fencing, gates & a drainage ditch, as well as purchasing & planting native trees & wildflowers, increasing local biodiversity.
We hope to be able to start planting trees next winter. However with escalating costs now, the forestry grant funding would not cover the outlay, so we cannot start planting the big field until we have raised enough funding to cover the shortfall.
Meanwhile, with the help of community volunteers and the Woodland Trust, five hundred trees have already been planted in a smaller field beside the Slains Kirk building. Work has been done to unblock an old culvert so as to solve the flooding problem from St Ternan’s Well in one part of the field, and wild grass and flower seed has been sown to cover the earth following the work on the drain. Volunteers have been doing bio-diversity surveys there since SEAchange bought the land.
We have gardening sessions every week, on Sundays from 11am until 1pm, in which we take care of our garden. We grow our own veggies and fruit sustainably (without herbicides, pesticides nor fertilisers) and share the produce among our members.
We also do other activities from time to time, including projects such as Bugtropolis, to make the garden more bug-friendly and promote pollination, or The Forest Garden in which we grow perennials following the permaculture principles, or manufacturing vertical gardens with wooden pallets.