Newsletters

This is a list of all the published Cambusbarron Community Development Trust Newsletters. Click on Read more to read the Newsletter.

  • Newsletter June 2026
    Welcome to our monthly newsletter – keeping you up to date on Woodland matters. Coming Soon The trust’s annual AGM is planned for the 18th August 2026, at 7PM in the Cambusbarron community centre on St Ninians Road. This is a great opportunity to come along and hear the great work that has been done over… Read more: Newsletter June 2026
  • Newsletter May 2026
    Welcome to our monthly newsletter – keeping you up to date on Woodland matters. Bees The walled garden is now home to a hive of Bees. They have settled in well and seem to be enjoying their surroundings and particularly the flowering fruit trees from our orchard in the lower half of the garden. The… Read more: Newsletter May 2026
  • Newsletter April 2026
    Welcome to our newsletter – keeping you up to date on Woodland matters. FORTHCOMING EVENTS: Friday April 17th Get your Bike Fixed for Free drop in event Sunday April 26th Woodland Walk, Pond Dipping and Lily Pond BBQ Wednesday Evening May 20th Orienteering Event Nature is coming back! The area around the Lily Pond is… Read more: Newsletter April 2026
  • Newsletter March 2026
    Welcome to our monthly newsletter – keeping you up to date on Woodland matters. Community Tree Planting Days in March We will be holding community tree planting days on Sunday 22nd and Saturday 28th March in our community woodland – This will be above the area of trees planted by community volunteers in the last… Read more: Newsletter March 2026
  • Newsletter February 2026
    Welcome to our monthly newsletter – keeping you up to date on Woodland matters. Signs of spring The woodland is coming alive and the signs of spring are beginning to appear. Still cold but some warmth in the sun on nice days. Snow drops, catkins and budding trees. In particular the walled garden is waking… Read more: Newsletter February 2026
  • Newsletter January 2026
    Wishing our readers an enjoyable Burns Night! Patersons Quarries Patersons Quarries Limited have confirmed that they are planning to recommence quarrying sometime later this year. This will be subject to Patersons meeting the 16 conditions stipulated by the Scottish Report who gave final approved of the planning application for the access road to the quarry… Read more: Newsletter January 2026
  • Newsletter December 2025
    Wishing all our readers a Merry Christmas! Dark Woods Update There has been rapid progress with The Dark Woods Regeneration project – the harvesting machine has finished on site and the majority of the timber has been removed.  We expect the remaining felling of diseased Ash and timber transport to be completed in January and… Read more: Newsletter December 2025
  • Newsletter November 2025
    Keeping you up to date on Community Woodland matters. Dark Woods Progress The Dark Woods Regeneration project is now well underway, and our harvesting contractors are working hard. The unseasonably wet weather over the last few weeks has caused challenges for their machinery to extract the timber from site. Nevertheless work continues to progress, and… Read more: Newsletter November 2025
  • Newsletter October 2025
    Welcome to our second monthly newsletter – keeping you up to date on Woodland matters. Acorns Everywhere! You may have noticed that this year has been a bumper year for acorns. This is known as a “mast year”. We have been collecting acorns to use as a natural food source for Jays and Squirrels later… Read more: Newsletter October 2025
  • Newsletter September 2025
    Welcome to our first monthly newsletter – keeping you up to date on Woodland and Development Trust matters. Jelly Babies and Angel Wings.   Volunteers from our Woodland Management Group walk in the woods virtually every day. They spotted jelly babies and angel wings in the woodland this week! Photo attached.   Protecting our Red… Read more: Newsletter September 2025