Torry is well known for its community spirit.
A new outdoor classroom in St Fittick’s Park proves this spirit is alive and well as several community groups in Torry are working together to make it happen.
Friends of St Fittick’s Park, (FOSFP), are leading on their ‘Learning Together in St Fittick’s Park Project’ which was voted as one of the winners in the Just Transition Participatory Budget Fund and were awarded £19500. The vision is to build an outdoor nature classroom to better connect us with the nature in the park, enjoy the outdoor space and provide a space for nature based learning opportunities for all.
More picnic benches and community notice boards will be sited in the park too. The Torry Peoples Assembly meetings provided an ideal opportunity to get together and discuss how this might be achieved. Funding was identified with the help of NESCAN, ( North East Climate Action Network), and an application made. We’re absolutely over the moon to have won against some stiff competition. You can find out more about this project on the 15th of June 2024 and other exciting community led ideas that are being explored to benefit Torry with a community event which will be partly held in St. Fittick’s Park.
Details and additional venues to be announced.
One idea to be discussed at the event, is for a home’s retrofit project.
The Torry Peoples Assembly, with others are beginning to explore what it would take to improve all of our homes in Torry: to make them healthier, more comfortable, and reduce energy use. Retrofitting could reduce climate emissions too.
We’ll start by surveying 3 homes so we can all see at the June event what that means.
Once we have more information, and acquired funding for the project, we can do more surveys, investigate the health effects, overall cost and financing, heat networks, and how we can create the necessary jobs for the project locally. From this, we will have a better idea of how we might make this work, and plan for the next steps of the project.
Look out for more details on the event and grateful thanks to The Bridge Cafe for their support as a venue for some of our meetings. Thank you!
There is a great interest in what we are doing, and anyone is welcome to join in to help or express ideas. It is great to see local folk working together.
Oh, and keep an eye out for our regular littler picks. Friend of St Fittick’s Park are now part of the keep Aberdeen. beautiful campaign, it’s your neighbourhood.
Keep an eye out on our Facebook pages Hands off our green spaces in Torry for further dates.
Contact us on [email protected] for campaign updates to save St Fittick’s Park go to saintfittickstorry.com
For retrofit info contact [email protected]