Balbirnie Wildflower Wellness Youth Group
Balbirnie’s Future Foundation
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Fancy boosting your CV and wellbeing while caring for nature? Join Balbirnie Wildflower Wellness Youth Group to plant wildflowers, run park-care tasks, make friends, and try creative nature activities. Free, inclusive sessions with snacks — volunteer, connect and build skills outdoors.
Balbirnie Wildflower Wellness Youth Group is a free, inclusive series of outdoor wellbeing and nature-care sessions for young people aged 14-24 run by Balbirnie’s Future Foundation. Participants will take part in wildflower planting and other park-care activities, alongside nature-connection and wellbeing activities such as arts and crafts, board games and relaxed group time.
Snacks and refreshments are provided. Sessions aim to give positive outdoor experiences, help young people make friends, build confidence and improve wellbeing while contributing to local biodiversity.
The programme is community- and conservation-focused: participants will help create and care for a wildflower meadow and leave a lasting environmental legacy for local greenspace. Sessions meet at the Grass Meadow nearest the allotments in Balbirnie Park (What3Words: ///gives.
moving. cubes). Young people under 16 need a guardian consent form completed on or before the first session; adults aged 25+ are welcome to support as volunteers.
Register via the Eventbrite listing or contact amykatethomson@gmail. com for the consent form.
Dates from the previous cycle — new dates are announced when applications reopen.
15 Jul 2026 – 15 Jul 2026
22 Jul 2026 – 22 Jul 2026
29 Jul 2026 – 29 Jul 2026
05 Aug 2026 – 05 Aug 2026
12 Aug 2026 – 12 Aug 2026
Location
- Open to young people aged 14-24 years
- Adults aged 25+ may take part only as volunteers (not the target participant group)
- Young people under 16 must have a guardian consent form completed on or before the first session (email amykatethomson@gmail.com to request a form or complete a paper copy at the first session)
Free to attend. Snacks and refreshments provided. Bring your own gloves if preferred; gloves can also be provided.
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