Past projects – Tweed Forum

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We deliver a wide range of projects, from small-scale local tree planting schemes to ambitious whole catchment restoration initiatives

Making sure the right projects are delivered in the right places, at the right scale, ensures that Tweed Forum continues to deliver lasting, practical measures that achieve multiple benefits for our environment and society. Below you’ll find an archive of completed projects, or you can have a look at our current projects for details of what we’re working on right now.

Ale Water: Working Wetlands

Ale Water: Working Wetlands was unique in taking a catchment-scale approach to a collection of largely undesignated, but regionally important, wetland sites and focusing on the attitudes of land managers towards the wetlands on their land holdings

Border Schools Birdbox Project

The Border Schools Birdbox Project aimed to supply every primary school playground within the Scottish Borders with 10 birdboxes over a four year period. The project also provided appropriate teaching resources as well as erecting birdboxes along the Tweed to provide nesting habitat for grey wagtails and Eurasian dippers.

Cheviot Futures

Cheviot Futures provided practical real-world solutions to the climate change challenges our communities face. The project was a cooperative of agencies and organisations working with rural communities in north Northumberland.

Coldingham Priory and Community Garden

This project focussed on the conservation and interpretation of Coldingham Priory ruins and the creation of a community garden within the grounds.

Community Wildlife Officer

The Community Wildlife Officer Post supported volunteer staffing and community events for the Osprey Watch centres at Glentress Forest and Kailzie Gardens near Peebles, as well as the Philiphaugh Salmon Viewing Centre near Selkirk.

Craik Sustainable Flood Management Demonstration Project

The Craik Sustainable Flood Management Demonstration Project was a partnership project demonstrating the potential of natural remedial techniques to help increase flood storage and slow down run-off in order to alleviate flood events.

Ettrick and Yarrow Riparian Project

Tweed Forum explored the delivery of natural flood managment measures in the Ettrick and Yarrow catchment above Selkirk, in partnership with Scottish Borders Council and landowners.

Eye Water Diffuse Pollution Project

With Eyemouth Beach regularly failing to meet the requirements of the Bathing Water Directive due to faecal pollution from livestock, this project looked at controlling diffuse pollution from the Eye Water.

Fatlips Castle

Fatlips Castle, one of the most iconic and much-loved structures in the Borders, has been restored thanks to funding from Historic Scotland, SBC’s Landfill Tax Credit Scheme and the Minto family.

Fell to Wells Project

The ‘Fell to Wells Project’ used the online auction platform ‘Naturebid’ to encourage (and pay) farmers to implement measures that will help reduce nitrate leaching to groundwater and protect Berwick’s drinking water supply.

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