The Lauderdale News (Scottish Borders) Winter edition

“Making Lauder Blooming Lovely!”
Festive Foliage - Saturday 7 th December 10-12 in Lauder Public Hall
Come along to our annual Festive Foliage workshop where we’ll be making the
150 bunches to decorate our town from one end to the other. There will be
mince pies for the helpers! If anyone is cutting back their laurel or similar
evergreen foliage we can make use of 2 foot lengths. Thank you.
Friends of Lauder in Bloom. Perhaps you’re looking for a gift for someone then
why not take out a year’s membership of our ‘Friends of Lauder in Bloom’. For
less than 3p a day members receive a quarterly newsletter and are automatically
entered into a prize draw every 3 months. Joining forms are available in Lauder
Library, The Flat Cat and The Purple Plum.
Co-op Community Fund. If you shop at the Co-op and like what we do then why not choose Lauder in
Bloom as your local cause for this next round of the Co-op Local Community Fund.
https://account.coop.co.uk/sign-in These funds will help provide spring and summer floral displays as well
as helping us to continue our other projects including our Juniors & Seniors club, our Garden Helpers
Service to those in need in our community along with our army of Lauder Litter Lifters. Help keep our town
looking lovely for locals and visitors alike. Thank you!
Working with ‘In Bloom’ groups across the Borders. Following the reduction in Council services to 'In
Bloom’ groups in the region we saw this as a positive opportunity for groups to come together to share
information and best practice as well as providing a support network for each other. We were delighted by
the response and we’re hopeful that this new Network will enable groups to find positive solutions to help
fill the gaps which SBC are no longer able to provide including sourcing bedding plants, grass maintenance
and street weeding as well as providing an invaluable support network for groups. Thanks to SBC for
helping us to circulate the invites and to the Lauderdale Hotel for accommodating us and for providing the
best home-made shortbread biscuits.
National Beautiful Scotland Conference. We recently attended the national Beautiful Scotland conference
in Stirling where we were asked to present on our award-winning Juniors & Seniors Club as well as our
Pollinators Patches @ The Park. Our presentations and stall were very well received and we hope we’ve
inspired other groups across Scotland to give it a go.
Real Christmas Tree Recycling. Save yourself a trip to the dump and don’t forget to bring us your real
Christmas tree for recycling on Saturday 4 th January between 13:00 and 15:00 at the Primary School.
Thanks to Firebrick Bakery, The Purple Plum and Lauder Co-op for accommodating our collection tins and
to Lauder Library for hosting our on-going free Seed Swap & suggestion box. Contact us at
lauderinbloom@gmail.com, find us on Facebook or chat to any of the Team who are often out and about
in our blue ‘Lauder in Bloom’ polo shirts. We look forward to hearing from you!
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