Thank you event
‘Last night we held a ‘thank you’ event for our volunteers and for our garden owners who so generously opened their gardens to the public to make Duns third ‘Open Garden’ event on behalf of Scotland’s Gardens Scheme, held on Sunday 18th June, such a success and what a lovely evening we had! The ‘fizz’ was flowing and the nibbles completely vanished amid chatter and laughter. In 2022 the charity we championed was Abundant Borders and Duns Community Garden, helping them to take on five students from Berwickshire High School to train towards Horticultural achievements. This has been so successful that two of the students are now going on to study at Newtown St Boswells Agricultural College after the summer holidays. Congratulations to Karen Birch and her team for their hard work and dedication encouraging the next generation towards a career in Agriculture and Rural Studies. Karen talked us through a power point presentation about the work they have done, and are still doing, which was inspiring and emotional and was thoroughly enjoyed by us all. This year our champions are Duns Community Nursery and Riding for Disabled Association (RDA). Nicola, Rachel and Jo collected the donation for the nursery, which is to go towards a large dining table with chairs to enable all the children to enjoy lunch together. Our donation to the RDA will be put towards the enormous amount to be raised to resurface the indoor school where all forty of the adults and children who attend benefit from working with the horses. Gill, Sharon and Sandra were there to receive the RDA donation. We wish them all the very best for the coming years and thank them for all the hard work they do in our community.’
