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Autumn 2024 Newsletter

  Please click here for our Autumn 2024 Newsletter. There is a reference in the letter to a Podcast with Jim Heath, our Chair. If you click on the link originally provided it may come up with an error message. You can now use this new link to go straight to the actual Edinburgh Outdoors […]

Geology Walk on the Hill, 3rd November 2024

Sunday November 3rd 2024 walking tour from 11am-1pm Meet at Craiglockhart Terrace entrance Angus Miller, geologist, will lead us on a walk along the Woodland Trail, anti-clockwise from the pond, along the Poets’ path, up the Hilltop path to the summit and down via the zigzag path. He describes the walk as follows: Explore the […]

Bat Walk, 14th September, 2024

Join us for an exciting and informative bat walk on Easter Craiglockhart Hill. Big thanks to Graeme Wilson, Ecologist & Wildlife Educator, who will be leading the walk and sharing his extensive knowledge of bats. Graeme will first give us a short talk on these amazing flying mammals. Then we will walk the woods with […]

Notice of 2024 Annual General Meeting

ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING On: 16th of July 2024 At: Meggetland Sports Complex At: 7pm for 7:30pm The Friends of Easter Craiglockhart Hill invite you to our AGM on Tuesday, the 16th July. This is a chance for us all to meet up again and find out what has been happening on the hill, and what […]

Spring Newsletter, March 2024

Click to view as PDF file FECH Spring 2024 Newsletter Previous editions are available below FECH Autumn 2023 Newsletter FECH Winter 22/23 Newsletter FECH Summer 2022 Newsletter

Easter Egg Hunt, 31st March 2024

  We’ve heard rumours that the Easter Bunny will be visiting Easter Craiglockhart Hill and leaving chocolate eggs in the woods! Come and help us track them all down, we don’t want dogs or local wildlife to get any of them! Be at the Craiglockhart Terrace entrance to the Local Nature Reserve by 11am on […]

The Great Snowdrop Split 10th March 2024

Come and help us plant snowdrops in the woods. A great activity for all the family. From 11am on Sunday 10th March 2024 at the Craiglockhart Terrace entrance. Please bring along a trowel and plant them on Easter Craiglockhart Hill wherever you think that they would look nice.  Remember that they will be happiest in […]