Edinburgh Outdoors
Edinburgh Outdoors is a podcast exploring the city’s green spaces and the people in them. From community gardens to secret spaces, learning about the city’s history or just finding a space to breathe, getting outside brings benefit to everyone, and being outdoors in Edinburgh is the best place to be!
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Monday Aug 26, 2024
Monday Aug 26, 2024
Welcome to this new podcast seeking out Edinburgh's green spaces. I started by diving into some gorgeous nature sights and sounds right in the heart of the city. Jim Heath, Chair of the Friends of Easter Craiglockhart Hill told Edinburgh Outdoors about the hill's unique nature, wildlife and history. From sparrowhawks to overgrown bowling greens, the Hill is a wonderful place to find views, tranquility and opportunities to volunteer.
About
Edinburgh Outdoors is a regular podcast exploring green spaces and the people in them, in and around Edinburgh. It features people and their stories who either volunteer or work outdoors, as well as those who promote social benefits, positive health and wellbeing through providing outside experiences and spaces. Ideally their agenda is focused on nature, health, social or green/climate mitigation and we also explore learning, history, secret spaces and just the beauty of our city.
Many of our green spaces are under threat from development or need greater funding and support to keep them available and accessible to everyone. There are some spaces which need to be preserved for their wildness, unique history, climate mitigation, or beauty. The campaigners who are protecting these places need our support.
Many people work outside in a wide range of activities and for many of us it is the place where we find our own space for rejuvenation, leisure and wellbeing. And for many people I hope the podcast will alert them to outdoor opportunities they hadn’t thought of which are right on their doorstep, or only a short distance away.
Find out more or get in touch
If you want to find out more about Edinburgh Outdoors, you can find us on Instagram, Facebook and sometimes (rarely!) TikTok. I am also on Bluesky and X as @angelacasey
If you know of an outdoors space in and around Edinburgh that might like to be featured or needs protection, please get in touch.