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11 December (Wednesday 14.00) Special Volunteers Day ‘extreme’ litter pickup
14 December (Saturday 17.00) Calton Consort at Canongate Kirk
18 January 2025 (Saturday 10.00), Ninth Litter Pickup
2024
10 January, Nelson Monument visit by Friends of Calton Hill Committee
13 January, Fifth Friends Litter Pickup
19 January to 2 February, Re-grassing four areas of severe erosion on the hill with 160m2 of new turf
2 March, ‘Our Classical Hill’: history walk led by Iain Gordon Brown (author of Old Greekie: Edinburgh as the Athens of the North)
13 April, Sixth Friends Litter Pickup
6 May, Edinburgh & Lothians Greenspace Trust/Friends of Calton Hill Volunteers Day
11 May, Plants & trees walk led by Ben Averis
18 May, Bird walk led by Stephen Welch
18 May, Annual General Meeting (AGM), adoption of a new constitution, and a new name: the Calton Hill Conservation Trust (CHCT)
25 May, Invertebrates (insects) walk led by Craig Macadam
31 May, Edinburgh & Lothians Greenspace Trust/CHCT Volunteers Day
6 July, Plant & trees survey walk led by Ben Averis
12 July, Edinburgh & Lothians Greenspace Trust/CHCT Volunteers Day
14 July, Invertebrates (insects) walk led by Kate O’Leary
18 July, CHCT applied for Scottish Charitable Incorporated Organisation (SCIO) status with the Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator (OSCR)
27 July, Seventh Litter Pickup
15 August, CHCT registered as a charity with the Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator (OSCR)
28 September, Plant & trees survey walk led by Ben Averis
17 October, Edinburgh & Lothians Greenspace Trust/CHCT Volunteers Day
26 October, Eighth Litter Pickup
9 November, Geology Walk, ‘A Story of Rivers’, led by geologist Angus Miller
16 November, Mammal Survey Walk led by Graeme Wilson of GWEcology
5 December, Calton Hill Conservation Trust deputation to City of Edinburgh Culture and Communities Committee
2023
24 January, First meeting of the Calton Hill Action Group
1 February, Second meeting of the Calton Hill Action Group
9 February, Third meeting of the Calton Hill Action Group, adoption of constitution inaugurating the Friends of Calton Hill
14 February, Friends of Calton Hill apply for City of Edinburgh Council registration
21 February, City of Edinburgh Council registration approved
8 March, Calton Hill night-time walkabout
29 March, Public launch of the Friends of Calton Hill at the Collective City Observatory
15 April, First Friends Litter Pickup
18 April to 7 May, Membership Survey
12 June, First grant application to the Community Grants Funds for re-grassing eroded areas
24 June, First Members Meeting (AGM), Greenside Church
1 July, Second Friends Litter Pickup
10 September, ‘Walks on the Wild Side’ of Calton Hill (birds, plants & trees, invertebrates)
14 September, Community Grants Fund award for re-grassing eroded areas (funds received on 12 October)
16 September, Third Friends Litter Pickup
16 September, Launch of Friends Membership Drive
4 November, Geology of Calton Hill Walk
11 November, Fourth Friends Litter Pickup
20 December, Graffiti on Playfair Monument immediately removed by Graffiti Team