“Wild spaces are invaluable to children, especially those growing up in
towns. They stimulate the imagination and nurture the spirit. Places
like the Children’s Wood within North Kelvin Meadow (Glasgow) are hard to come
by in urban settings and so should be preserved at all costs.”
Julia Donaldson, author of The Gruffalo and U.K Children’s Laureate
(photo: Anne Whitaker)
This is not just a local issue. This issue is one of the major challenges of our time right across the world.
As Dr Carol Craig, CEO of The Centre for Confidence and Well-being, has recently said:
“For decades we have restricted children’s freedom to play outdoors and there’s growing evidence that this trend is damaging their physical health and emotional well-being. We now have to take positive steps to ensure that children have easy access to wild spaces like the Children’s Wood in the North Kelvin Meadow. It would be a travesty if this special place for children disappeared under concrete.”
Our local North Kelvin Meadow campaign takes an important step forward on Thursday 4th April 2013 from 11.45 am until 12.30 pm with a second protest demonstration outside the City Chambers, George Square, Glasgow, Scotland, UK. Do come along and join us – if you can’t make it, do send this link to ANYONE you think can contribute to saving our meadow in any way: friends, community activists, bloggers, Twitterers, Facebookers, journos……it all helps!
BACKGROUND STORY:
May 2012 saw the start of The Children’ Wood – an offshoot of the sterling efforts of the North Kelvin Meadow Campaign, for the last few years the latest in several local initiatives, whose objective over a long period of time now has been to save a patch of local waste ground for community green space use, as opposed to its hosting yet another set of newbuild flats – in an already built up area – if Glasgow City Council’s plan for the space goes ahead.
To give you a wonderful ‘flavour’ of what this land means to our community, DO watch this brilliant short film Dear Green Place, made recently by film maker James Urquhart.
AND – to sign our on-line petition, go HERE. Thanks!!
The Children’s Wood
(photo: Anne Whitaker)
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NOTE: Blog/Twitter followers, Facebook friends, community activists and enthusiasts, please do what you can to pass this information around your networks. Thanks!
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Thanks Anne, Let’s hope our persistence pays off. See you Thursday 🙂
Hi Emily. Should be an interesting morning!!!
As always, I’ll try not to nag my friends but will post a notice and/or a reminder here and there. It occurs to me I have some folks in Wales who may not know of this, and another in Scotland. I’ll take the time to be sure they get the information.
Linda, thanks so much from all of us for your steadfast support of our campaign!