ALDI CUMBERNAULD - CASTLECARY WAY

The Developing the Young Workforce Team within Cathkin High School would like to create small shop within our school run by our pupils and we would like surplus food and product donations for this. The School shop is an opportunity for ASN learners who may struggle to engage in external work experience placements and build meta skills, practical skills, confidence to support their journey to attaining a positive destination post school. We also want to build links with our parents and wider community. We would also make sure if any families in our school community was in need of any food donations, they would be our priority. While we would not charge for the items kindly donated to us, we would support the local food bank with a financial donation from any monies raised through pupils, staff and parents making donations of cash when they collect the donated food / items. The local food bank support a number of our families so this is a way for our school community to ’chuck it in a bucket’ financial food bank donation - give something back. This will also support the school’s equity agenda and provide opportunities for all learners to build skills for learning, life and work. This will also supports pupil voice – pupils would make the decisions about how food is displayed, shop is marketed, donations counted etc. As a school we also want to reduce the amount of food ending up in landfill, and help reduce the carbon footprint caused by all of this waste.

We are a group who like to reduce landfill waste by collecting and giving to the wildlife we take care of at the farm. The farm is 30 acres including forest land we have a great wildlife population on the farm. We also let injured foxes return to the wild from the farm by the SPCA, we have helped release 16 foxes. We also donate our manure to people growing fruit and veg. We will help free of charge to load it for them too. we collect seeds from old fruit and veg so nothing goes to waste. we help injured animals and foster ones for rescues to help find new homes. We have a farm in Palacerigg, Cumbernauld which has, for over 20 years, taken foxes from the SSPCA (Scotland's Animal Welfare Charity) which are well enough to be released into the wild. They are fed every night alongside a family of badgers, deer and birds. Our aim is to further reduce waste and we would like to make use of surplus food, where this is not going to local good causes. We would make use of fruit and vegetables that are no longer edible too as these will always contain seeds from which more can be grown. since we started collecting food waste we have managed to feed deer, foxes, badgers, birds of prey which visit the farm daily and horses. We rescue injured wildlife and help them recover here on the farm if its possible.

Welcome to Baird Memorial Early Years Support Unit, we are based within Condorrat, Cumbernauld. Our nursery caters for children 3-5 years old with additional support needs. We plan and implement a play-based sensory curriculum. We have three playrooms within the nursery; each room benefits from a high ratio of staff to support the needs of the children. All children attend nursery 9.15am-3.15pm, term time. We are looking to revamp our nursery garden by creating a painted mural, mud kitchen, water feature wall, plating stations, cosy den and a sensory touch tactile wall. We would be looking for various items to help us create a new and exciting garden for all of the children to explore such as, plants, seeds, paint, guttering, waste pipes, funnels, sand, soil, bark, torches, locks, switches, wallpaper, tarpaulin and paint brushed