🌿Gardening, maintenance and litter picking at The Meadows 🌿
We will be helping to protect and maintain the Meadows and Bruntfield Links public park areas
🌿Gardening, maintenance and litter picking at The Meadows 🌿
We will be helping to protect and maintain the Meadows and Bruntfield Links public park areas
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About this session
For this week’s group run session we’ll be joining forces with the Friends of Meadows and Bruntsfield Links — a long‑standing community group dedicated to protecting, maintaining, and improving one of Edinburgh’s best‑loved green spaces.
Our meetup point is Edinburgh Street Food, where you’ll have access to a secure bag drop and the familiar 15% discount on food and drink waiting for us when we return.
From there we’ll run together at an inclusive pace towards the Meadows (around 2.5km each way) before getting stuck into a mix of gardening, maintenance, and litter picking. Expect tasks like weeding around paths and benches, clearing small patches of overgrowth, refreshing planted areas, and helping remove litter from busy corners of the park.
The Friends of Meadows and Bruntsfield Links are a brilliant volunteer‑led organisation who work year‑round to keep this historic green space thriving. Their efforts support biodiversity, improve access, preserve heritage features, and ensure the Meadows and Links remain welcoming places for everyone. By lending a hand, we’ll be contributing directly to that ongoing stewardship and learning more about the challenges and opportunities of caring for such a heavily used urban green space.
You can read more about the Friends group on their website: https://www.fombl.org.uk
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Helping protect Edinburgh's green space
Friends of the Meadows and Bruntsfield Links (FoMBL) is a voluntary organisation founded in 2001 to help look after 95 acres of parkland in the heart of Edinburgh. The Friends hold three public meetings a year at different historic centres around the Meadows and Bruntsfield Links, when interesting speakers are invited and issues of importance to the public are discussed. The Friends have gained funding for ambitious projects, such as the Meadows Mural. We work together with local schools, and projects have included planting shrubs at the foot of the Meadows Mural. We also work with Edinburgh University students, who have even organised a project of their own on the Meadows. There are monthly gatherings to carry out voluntary work. These meetings are a great opportunity to meet other Friends and chat while working outdoors.
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Make sure you've read our general guidelines for safety for taking part in a GoodGym session.
This is a GoodGym group run, with the option of walking too. You'll meet other GoodGymers at the start location and run or walk to the task together. If you're worried about any aspect of the session, contact your area activator Dave Entwistle (he/him) by email at daveentwistle@goodgym.org.
Options are available to run between 5km and 6km in total.
Remember that we will be running or walking to and from the task, so you'll only be running or walking for half this distance in one go.
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