Wester Hailes Growing Communities

Wester Hailes Growing Communities is a Scottish Charitable Incorporated Organisation constituted in 2017 to support the development of community greenspace projects across Wester Hailes and Calders.

WHCG has established itself as the key community food growing and placemaking anchor organisation locally. As a community led charity, we exist to establish and embed community food growing, community food, growing youth projects & placemaking initiatives locally.

WHGC support several community growing sites and groups across the area.

WHGC is currently working with Murrayburn & Hailesland Community Park Association to establish an innovative community park which will be designed and community-self built by local people.

Wester Hailes is a group of seven council estates in the South West of Edinburgh.

We have set up three Neighbourhood Gardens across the area, in the Calders, Clovenstone and Murrayburn & Hailesland.

The Wester Hailes Edible Estates (WHEE) project was started in 2013 by The Health Agency supported by Re:Solution. By 2017, the project had outgrown The Health Agency, and South West Edible Estates (SWEE) was established in as a Scottish Charitable Incorporated Organisation (SCIO). SWEE has since become Wester Hailes Growing Communities SCIO are now working with local primary schools to establish School Farm projects, and to develop a Community Park in the Greenway between Murrayburn & Hailesland.

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