Since my post as Youth Engagement Officer is still in its early stages, I still have the pleasure of being allowed to travel around and get a feel for the wide range – both in scope and in geography – of projects TCV are running. It’s a big organisation, so I can’t get round every project, but I’ve learned a lot from the ones I saw last week. There were this lot, pictured above – a college group working once a week on TCV’s Green Action programme, who are working hard to maintain an area of paths, flower beds and art work by the Auchinstarry basin on the Forth and Clyde Canal. We planted daffodils and gave the wooden flowerbed borders a new coat of paint. The area seems to be a popular one with dogwalkers and others.
Then there was my trip up to Aberdeen to check out our small but busy operation up there. A group of midweek volunteers are working on installing new information boards along the sunny but wind-battered (on that day, anyway) coastal path at the old fishing village of Johnshaven.
For me it was a powerful reminder of the incredible places just a stone’s throw away from that city (which I lived in for six years) – wild, majestic and with ample potential for many more TCV projects…
