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Litter Pickers clean up for World Clean Up Day

***UPDATE*** A huge thank you to everyone who joined us for our sponsored litter pick on Sunday at Hailes Quarry Park. Our youth panel, volunteers, Mandy, Margon and Penny from the staff team and some lovely Green Champions from BlackRock all took part. Friends of Hailes Quarry Park also

2024-09-24T17:12:37+01:00September 24th, 2024|

Sponsored litter pick for World Clean Up Day

 Join The Green Team for a sponsored litter pick to mark World Clean Up Day. We have chosen Hailes Quarry Park, Murrayburn to concentrate on. It’s a well used and lovely park but needs a bit of a clean up.We are trying to raise £2,000 towards a new electric cargo

2024-09-24T17:08:29+01:00August 22nd, 2024|

especially for our volunteers…

This volunteer’s week we’re taking the time to celebrate and thank all our amazing volunteers. We have people behind the scenes helping with fundraising, events and admin, volunteers capturing amazing images and video to portray our work, our board who give of their time tirelessly, our youth panel who

2024-06-06T08:22:27+01:00June 6th, 2024|

Wreath-making the Green Team Way!

“It smells like Christmas” Around 100 wreaths were made with The Green Team in November/December by three different organisations. This included Syrian teenage girls from MCFB (multicultural Family Base), a wellbeing greenspaces group from FCCT (Fountainbridge Canalside Community Trust) and employees from BlackRock. All individuals enjoyed the mindful, relaxing

2023-12-12T14:12:10+00:00December 12th, 2023|

Winter Celebration Online Raffle

We are really looking forward to our Winter Celebration and Awards Night on Friday 1st December. It is a great opportunity to share in all the achievements and personal development that our participants have made as well as giving thanks for the amazing work that all our volunteers do.

2023-11-28T12:48:49+00:00November 28th, 2023|

Green Team becomes Volunteer Charter Champion

We're a Volunteer Charter Champion! At The Green Team we place considerable value on our volunteers and recognise the enormous contribution they make to the success of our organisation and to the lives of the young people involved in our programmes. That is why in October this year we

2023-12-07T16:34:46+00:00November 1st, 2023|

Green Team Supports World Clean Up Day

World Clean Up Day with Decathlon We were delighted to be asked to support Decathlon's litter pick event for World Clean Up Day on the 17th September this year at Sighthill Park. We provided a small support team consisting of members of our youth panel and staff along with

2023-12-07T16:01:33+00:00October 1st, 2023|

Green Team at Volunteer Fair 2023

Carbon Conscious Always conscious of our carbon footprint, we arrived at the Volunteer Fair on 13th September on our cargo bike with all the things for our stall on board - including Margon's collection of crocheted animals and some windfall apples! Volunteer with us We spoke to lots of

2023-09-14T10:50:04+01:00September 14th, 2023|
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