We’re delighted to be able to report that, at their meeting on Wednesday this week, the NHS Lothian Board unanimously approved our application to purchase Belhaven Community Garden at our valuation of £45,000.
Craig Marriott, Finance Director at NHS Lothian, said: “The Board’s approval of the Community Asset Transfer is an important milestone for Belhaven Community Garden and the local community. We are pleased to support the transfer to Sustaining Dunbar, recognising the garden’s value in bringing people together and supporting health and wellbeing. We wish the group every success in continuing the garden’s development.”
We are planning a wee, informal event in the garden to mark this occasion on Saturday 24th October, 2-4pm, to raise a glass and gather to present and discuss our plans for the next few years. Please join us if you can! And if you can’t, please still consider getting involved in the next, new phase at Belhaven Community Garden to help steer it into the future. It has been a long and tortuous route to get to this point and it will be another few months before the sale goes through. But now, at last, we are excited to be able to focus our efforts on planning the future development of the garden as a resource for the whole community.
Huge thanks for all your support! This has played a crucial part in getting us to this stage and is greatly appreciated.
We will now use this website to update on the progress of the purchase over the next few months and on our plans for installing the essential infrastructure necessary to move forward with our ambitions for the future development of the garden as a resource for the whole community.