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Fancy some veg gardening with a group of other people – or need a small allotment of your own ? NHTT have a Community Garden in co-operation with Monimail Tower Project.  And we have space for other individuals or families that want to be involved.  Take an allotment or garden together. The venue is the [...]

Free compost is now available to householders in the area.  NHTT has arranged for compost (soil conditioner) to be provided free of charge by Fife Council. Monimail Tower Project have kindly agreed to host the  stockpile at the edge of their car park. The 1-2-3 of getting your compost: 1. Turn up at Monimail Tower [...]

Core Group Minutes 14th March 2013   20130314coregroupminutes   Errata:  The minutes state that Cathy Bache has left the Woodland Group. It should state that  she is no longer leading the Sunday Woodland Group due to her other commitments.

Liason with Ladybank

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This is a post to report that the Core Group met with Ladybank Development Trust last week for a friendly chat adn to get to know each other. Our bounadries and activities are very close and we discussed items of mutual interest, including: woods, for recreation, wildlife and fuel Fife Council Melville recycling site, and the potential for a community-led [...]

We’ve been sent info on a new scheme that might save you money on your bills - looks like a good one, so check it out. We get sent lots of energy info, but I only post the ones that look good. The blurb is below and I’ve loaded a couple of info sheets HouseholderFAQs and Scots [...]

The Community Garden at Monimail Tower Project is beginning to stir from hibernation.  On Sunday 17th Feb, we’re going to plant some cordon fruit trees against an unused section of wall in our wee corner.  The trees have been purchased from Auchtermuchty’s finest pomologist Gerben de Vries.  Last year was a dreadful year for orchard [...]

Some Xmas Cheer!

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Improving prospects to report on our existential crisis with the Leader grant. John, Neil Crispin and I met with the Scottish Government and Fife Council a couple of weeks ago in Letham Hall and they basically accepted that Leader doesn’t work for community groups and we are now working through the detail. We hope to receive the [...]

We’ve been a bit lax in updates recently, holidays, illnesses the usual things, but NHTT stuff’s still been happening.. The Good News is that NHTT Members Becky Little and Paula Cowie have been successful in raising £1500 for a project with the Parent Teacher Council to develop Outdoor Learning facilities at Letham Primary School. Horray!! [...]

We had a great AGM at Giffordtown Hall recently. Chair Tom gave a cheery summary of the years efforts and looked forward to all the stuff that’s going on and coming up. Treasurer Crispin gave a good summary of our financial situation and prospects. It’s all sumarised in one easy-to-read, fun-filled report, no really it’s [...]

Last month the Energy Group met again to reflect on what to do next. This followed a moderately inspiring and well attended public meeting with Energy4All . We reflected on what the benefits and challenges might be of setting up a local energy Coop as a vehicle for a community wind energy project, and after much [...]