Scottish Borders Green Map

A Transition Network group working for a sustainable future, a biodiverse environment and a thriving community in the central Scottish Borders.  

Our mission is to alleviate food insecurity in the Scottish Borders by creating a network of local food production and encouraging people to seek out locally produced food.

The site at Ayton provides a great opportunity to create permanent growing space and shelter belt. The site was an uncultivated plot on the edge of an larger piece of land which will be developed for housing by BHA.

Over the years, we’ve helped groups in the Berwickshire area with funding applications and governance issues, allowing projects that started out as an initial idea to become a reality and fill a need in the community.

Over the years, we’ve helped groups in the Berwickshire area with funding applications and governance issues, allowing projects that started out as an initial idea to become a reality and fill a need in the community.

Over the years, we’ve helped groups in the Berwickshire area with funding applications and governance issues, allowing projects that started out as an initial idea to become a reality and fill a need in the community.

  Bee Fruitful is a producer of delicious fruits, honey & jams. Carefully grown in Ettrick Valley using organic farming methods & following permaculture principles. Environment-friendly practices are at the core of our business. The soil used in our raised beds for example, comes from mole-hills built on the land. Thanks moles!

Located between the historic fishing towns of Eyemouth and St Abbs, the Berwickshire Marine Reserve was established by the local community to protect the habitats and species found here and to ensure that all users are responsible in their activities.

Located between the historic fishing towns of Eyemouth and St Abbs, the Berwickshire Marine Reserve was established by the local community to protect the habitats and species found here and to ensure that all users are responsible in their activities.

Our Berwickshire Reuse Hub aims to complement our charity shops by helping our community to reuse larger household items that are too big to be taken by our shops! We are currently running our operations from the Bavs Office and a storage unit, supplied by Pearsons of Duns.

Berwickshire Swap hold children's clothes and toy swap around the borders and east Lothian. A great way to stop clothes and items going to landfill. 

The Bike Barn Foulden was started in 2018 and is a small local independent bicycle service and repair workshop based on the outskirts of Berwick on Tweed serving a range of customers from Northumberland and the Scottish Borders. 

Our ecofriendly garden is located at The Moorhouse, just outside Duns in the beautiful Scottish Borders. We grow an abundance of traditional and unusual, seasonal flowers as well as a stunning variety of foliage, seed-heads, grasses and herbs. We gather the flowers at their peak and create gorgeous posies, bouquets and wreaths.

Borders Forest Trust is a charity established to restore native woodland habitats to Southern Scotland, an area with the lowest percentage of native woodlands in mainland Scotland. Since 1996, we have been working towards planting trees, restoring peatlands and other natural habitats, enriching the biological diversity of around 31 sq km in the Southern Uplands.

Project focused on creating a shared access path from Tweedbank to Eyemouth

Great selection of clothes and goods

Borders Wheels is a charity based in the Scottish Borders, We provide Community Transport across the Borders and have four locality bases: Berwickshire, Galashiels, Teviot and Tweed.  Borders Wheels is the unification of 4 Community Transport organisations in the Borders, Teviot, Gala and Tweed came together first and we brought in Berwickshire Wheels in April 2024.

Our work centres around restoring and protecting our landscapes so that they are able to support native species, but also ourselves.

Bryenich Coppice Management grows pea sticks, flower stakes, basketry willow, and hurdle willow, and coppice wood products. It makes small turned objects, as well as other green wood working and gardening items from its own sustainably managed woodland at Duns Spa Wood (behind Nisbet Rhodes). Assistance with tree planting, woodland maintenance, and small hedgelaying projects is available within the area of Scottish Borders and north Northumberland, as are courses on woodland safety, woodland management, treadle lathe turning, and other aspects of green woodworking.

Burnfoot Community Futures is a charity based in Burnfoot, Hawick. Their aim is to improve the well-being, quality of life and opportunities of the people of Burnfoot. Their Community Garden was set up with funding through the Climate Challenge Fund. Volunteer sessions are held two days a week, where volunteers help to grow fruit and vegetables which they can take away to enjoy. Surplus fruit and vegetables are shared with the community through their Foodshare Project.

Fair Trade Coffee House & Kitchen with Re-fill station and Fair Trade Shop

We aim to reduce the gap between food poverty and food waste by using unsold food from supermarkets to serve in a Pay What You Can Cafe in Galashiels.

Chirnside Larder is based in Chirnside Chirnside Community Centre. Everyone is welcome to visit the Larder - it's open Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays 10am - 12noon. We appreciate any donations of food (perishable and non-perishable), toiletries, cleaning supplies & pet food to help support the community of Chirnside and surrounding villages as well as helping to reducing food waste.

The Community at Cockburnspath have been sucessful in a community asset transfer of a large plot of land at the edge of the village. Some of the plot has been allocated to allotmenteers and we are delighted to be supporting the community in developing a community food forest garden on the remainder of the site.