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Summer Happenings

20/7/2014

 
Since those jubilant scenes outside the Council offices in April we’ve been busy making our vision for Bridgend Farm House a reality. We’ve been negotiating the terms of the “licence” under which the Council is “giving” us the building for a year while we draw up detailed plans for the farm house and its projects. 

The Big Lottery has been very supportive and we have won stage-one funding to allow us to employ consultants to prepare architectural plans, apply for planning permission, engage a part-time project manager and consult with the community and potential farm house users. 

We have now drawn up formal tender documents and are looking at bids from professional consultants. We hope to have everything in place by the spring of next year to be able to apply for full funding from the Lottery.  This will allow us to acquire the building, restore it, install a community kitchen and café and build a series of out-houses on one side of the garden.

Meanwhile, our community worker Hilary Morrison has been making good use of a Council grant to run no fewer than 13 projects, ranging from cookery classes, to forest fun days, eco-gardening, walking groups and heritage events.    

We were intrigued to see an archaeological dig taking place at the farm house in June organised by the Greater Liberton Heritage Project and funded by the Heritage Lottery. The dig lasted a week and uncovered yet more evidence that the site was originally a chapel built by Sir Simon Preston in 1518.  It’s very likely therefore that Mary Queen of Scots worshiped here while she was staying at Craigmillar Castle in 1566. By 1792, the chapel was referred to as “stables” and by 1850, the Ordnance  Survey map was showing it as a “ labourer’s cottage.”  So we have a long and interesting heritage to protect and enjoy.


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    • Our Vision
    • Our Cafe
    • Our Facilities >
      • CafeSpace
      • Kitchen
      • Meeting Room
      • The Bike Hub
      • Workshop3
      • Workshop4
      • Marquee
    • Our News
  • Get Involved
    • Who We Are >
      • Our Board
      • Looking for Directors Trustees
      • Our Team >
        • Claire Wheeler
        • Roz Angus
        • Zoe Murdoch
        • Kevin Morrison
        • Gill Curran
        • Luisa Brown
        • Khalid Bashir
        • Darla Eno
        • Eric Fernandez-Baca
      • Our Projects >
        • Activity Days
        • Bothy Build
        • Community Allotments
        • Community History >
          • PWF Booklet
          • PWF Interviews
          • PWF Videos
          • PWF Museum
          • PWF Images
        • Pride of Place >
          • Craigmillar Castle Park Map
          • Pop-Project-Board
          • Pop-A-Walk-in-the-woods
          • Pop-Geology
          • Pop-Cameron-toll
          • Pop-JS-poem
          • Pop-History-and-WIAT
          • Pop-Faery-doors
        • Previous Projects >
          • Farmhouse Renovation >
            • Workshops Build
          • Bamboo Bikes
          • BIG Acorn Fund >
            • BIG Acorn Projects
          • Real Fast Food
          • Community Cafe 2018
          • Community Cafe 2017
          • Cosmetics Group
          • Food Group 2017
          • Bike Workshop 2017
          • Garden Shelter
          • Artist in Residence
          • Forest Skills
      • Working Groups
      • Our Constitution
      • Our Area Of Benefit >
        • Community organisations
        • Bridgend Virtual Tour
      • Our Funders
    • Contact Us
    • Maillist
    • Drop-in Archive
    • Privacy Policy
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      • Videos 2013-18
      • Food Stories
    • Publications >
      • Forms and Resources
      • The Story of BIG >
        • Presentations and Podcasts 2020
      • Our Queen's Award
      • Community Consultation 2020-21
      • Bridgend Past and Present
      • Annual Report 2022
      • Annual Report 2021
      • 2020 AGM
      • COVID-19 Food Resilience Response Project final report
      • A community-led emergency response to food precarity
      • Senscot Bulletin May 20
      • healthandcarescotland May 20
      • Bellacaledonia May 20
      • ScotsMag
      • HolyroodMagazine
      • Our Journey
      • Our older documents >
        • AGM2020
        • AGM2019
        • AGM2018
        • AGM2017
    • General Archives >
      • Community Share Issue >
        • Shares FAQs
      • BIG Opening Party
      • Former Staff >
        • Stevie Palmer
        • Sharon Stoddart
        • Wing Yee Li
        • Lynn Houmdi
        • Judy Paul
        • Donna McArdle
        • Hilary Lowson
        • Carol Stobie
        • Graham Harper
      • News and Events
      • Events Archive
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        • BIG Community Calendar
        • Our Pictures-2015-2017
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