Friends of the Hermitage of Braid & Blackford Hill

Friends of the Hermitage of Braid & Blackford Hill We are a Friends group for the Hermitage of Braid & Blackford Hill, Edinburgh, Scotland. We operate a

About The Friends of the Hermitage of Braid & Blackford Hill

The Friends was formed around twenty five years ago to represent users of the large and popular Local Nature Reserve in South Edinburgh and to support the City of Edinburgh Council in its management of the Reserve. We have initiated/supported/undertaken many projects including:

Community Walled Garden development & maintenance

Doocot

maintenance

Litter picking, burn cleanups, path clearing

Tree purchase & planting

Monthly work parties

Purchase & installation of wheelchair friendly picnic tables

Reporting issues to the Council

25/03/2026

Would you like to help plant some sticky catchfly plants on Monday 30th March at 10am?

If so please meet at Agassiz Rock at 10am, dressed for the weather. Bring your own gloves but no other equipment required.

Great team turn-out today by the Lothian Conservation Volunteers to cut down our last section of overgrown laurel bushes...
08/02/2026

Great team turn-out today by the Lothian Conservation Volunteers to cut down our last section of overgrown laurel bushes by Blackford Pond. It opens up the views of the Pond and makes the place brighter and open. It also makes the place feel safer.

The crossdrains up behind the houses also got cleared ensuring the best drainage of that steep pathway.

Our thanks to the busy LCV Team who are fully booked until the end of March - see https://www.lcv.org.uk/ for more details of what they get up to.

Beautiful photograph of apples in January by BarryJohn Stewart.
19/01/2026

Beautiful photograph of apples in January by BarryJohn Stewart.

This fox was spotted calmly and confidently walking along the Blackford Pond path today. It showed no fear of the photog...
25/11/2025

This fox was spotted calmly and confidently walking along the Blackford Pond path today. It showed no fear of the photographer.

Our thanks go to the ten volunteers who helped cut the laurel today at the east entrance to Blackford Pond. The aim is...
08/11/2025

Our thanks go to the ten volunteers who helped cut the laurel today at the east entrance to Blackford Pond. The aim is to re-open the spaces that the tall laurel has increasingly been shading and to let the light back in, thus opening lost views and making the place feel safer.

Could have done with many more helpers, but maybe next time.

03/11/2025

We are holding another laurel cutting session at the east end of Blackford Pond this Saturday 8th November, 10.00am to 12.30pm, or whenever you can join us. The weather is looking fair but dress for the weather, and please wear stout footwear, bring work gloves and cutting tools, like secateurs or rough wood saws, if you can. The nearby coffee cabin will no doubt be available for refreshments.

We will be working close to the Pond access gates next to the children's play area.

We hope that you can join us.

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69A Braid Road
Edinburgh
EH106JF

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