Calton Hill Conservation Trust
The Calton Hill Conservation Trust help protect & maintain our much-loved, long-neglected, Edinburgh park, with its monuments, spectacular views & nature | Please join us & volunteer with us. <https:www.caltonhilltrust.org>
- Delighted the DEFIBRILLATOR motion passed with cross-party support (+ helpful amendments). Special thanks to Cllr Mowat @cllrjomo.bsky.social for highlighting the struggles of the Trust to get a 24/7 unit installed and to everybody for recognising the importance of a fast response in an emergency.
- Interesting to learn in the debate that so many DEFIBRILLATOR heart restarters in Edinburgh are indoors (almost all of them in schools) and only available at certain hours — when they are obviously needed outdoors in readily accessible/visible locations 24/7.
- We have now written a formal deputation to the CITY of EDINBURGH COUNCIL meeting on 5 February in support of 'DEFIBRILLATORS: SAVING LIVES'.
- *The VAP*: 'ALL WRAPPING PAPER AND NO PRESSIE'. Thank you SPURTLE for covering our disappointment with the Council Culture & Communities hijack of report on a proposed tiny grant for parks groups with a large top-down VAP (Volunteer Action Plan) allocation to bureaucracy. @spurtle.bsky.social
- DEFIBRILLATOR: We welcome Cllr Bruce's motion on 'Defibrillators: Saving Lives' at Full Council on 5 February, especially the note "that other local authorities use street lighting to power defibrillators ..." (1.5). Exactly what we have been trying to arrange for the hill — since May 2025!
- WHY? Apparently the remains of a wheelie bin, removed from its metal container and set alight, on the top of the hill. Discovered this morning (1 February 26).
