Environmental Responsibility...

We believe that a clear sense of responsibility for the environment is demonstrated in the importance we place on biodiversity, conservation and sustainability and how these are included in many of our approaches and projects. One of our partner organizations, Fife Air Cadets Conservation Group, has been responsible for planting over 4,000 trees in the year past and further advances have been made to improve our colourful wildflower meadow at Balmblae.

We are pleased to have a Master Composter for the area, funded by Falkland Stewards, spreading the word to householders, while each year we recycle compost from baskets and containers then used to enhance beds throughout the community. Fortunate enough to have a stream running through our village all our displays and containers are watered from supplies drawn daily each summer from this source. Additionally, each Spring, every pupil in the local Primary School, accompanied by staff, parents and helpers, turns out for a litter pick to help create a sense of responsibility for their wider surroundings in the young.

Organised by Falkland Stewards, high above Maspie Den, a Community Woodland has now been completed where Coal Pit Den is now planted mostly with deciduous trees that are more beneficial for wildlife.

For some years we have attempted to develop a healthy interest in matters like conservation and biodiversity in the young people who regularly help with projects and visit our base at Sugar Acre for tuition in activities like composting, germination, potting on and planting out.