Enhancing Environmental Assets

Clydesdale Community Initiatives is a project that aims to give people with support needs the skills and confidence required to overcome barriers to involvement in community life and the world of work. The organisation uses landscaping and publice art projects as tools to enable people to make a contribution to their community.  Successful projects have included the Wallace and Castle Gardens in Lanark and the Sensory Garden in Lanark Moor.

The Rural Heritage Fund provides practical assistance towards developing and implementing natural and cultural heritage projects that will provide social and economic benefit to rural communities.  The Fund is currently being used to investigate the potential for reviving orchards in the Clyde Valley, as well as assisting with the installation of nesting boxes and habitat improvement works to encourage barn owls.