Community Spirit Action Group meeting #dundeewestend

Details of the next meeting of Community Spirit Action Group taking place tomorrow night – the community group for the “north” part of West End Ward, covering Pentland, Tullideph, Ancrum, Forest Park and the Cleghorn area – all very welcome :




Weekly Road Report – West End Ward #dundeewestend

DUNDEE CITY COUNCIL – WEEKLY ROAD REPORT

REPORT FOR WEST END WARD – WEEK COMMENCING MONDAY 4 JUNE 2018

South Union Street/South Marketgait at Dundee Railway Station – northbound nearside lane closure from 9.30am for 4 weeks for footway works.

Forthcoming Roadworks

Riverside Approach – prohibition of right turn into Riverside Approach from Riverside Drive from Monday 11 June for 5 days for SGN investigation work.



Victoria Park Primary School Summer Fayre #dundeewestend

The Victoria Park Primary School Summer Fayre is on Saturday 9th June at the school from 10am until 12 noon.

There will be lots of stalls and a raffle – all welcome!



New Pocket Garden competition at Dundee Flower & Food Festival

From Keep Scotland Beautiful :

We are delighted to be working with Dundee Flower and Food Festival 2018 to promote a One Planet Picnic competition to design the most exciting and unusual pocket garden, using plants that can be eaten, attract wildlife and celebrate 30 years of the Festival in Camperdown Park.

The competition is for groups to design a pocket garden, sized 120cm x 100cm, to mark this 30th year of the Dundee Flower and Food Festival and celebrate sustainable growing and gardening.  

Twelve winning designs will be selected and these groups invited to construct their pocket garden for display at the Festival, which runs from 31 August to 2 September.  The pocket gardens will form a ‘Celebration Garden’ located in the Floral Marquee adjacent to our Keep Scotland Beautiful stand.

Entries are invited from all organisations, including schools, nurseries, horticultural societies, friends’ groups, It’s Your Neighbourhood and Beautiful Scotland Groups, allotments and community allotment groups.  

Interested groups are asked to provide a sketch of the proposed pocket garden design, annotated or with explanatory notes.

A fact sheet providing competition details, a design brief and inspiration for your design ideas and how to stage your exhibit is available here.

The twelve winners invited to display their gardens in the ‘Celebration Garden’ will receive two free tickets to the Festival and will receive a commemorative certificate.  They will also be judged and overall winners announced in early September.

All entries must be submitted electronically by 5pm on Friday 15th June 2018 to bookings.flowershow@dundeecity.gov.uk.



D’Arcy Thompson Zoology Museum summer season

From the Curator of Museum Services at the University of Dundee :
The D’Arcy Thompson Zoology Museum will re-open for its summer season this Friday (1st June) and will be open every Friday 2pm-4.30pm until 31st August. 

As always the museum showcases D’Arcy’s amazing collection of animals from around the world, as well as stunning models, charts and artworks inspired by D’Arcy’s ideas and specimens. 

Newly added to the museum are stunning images taken from some of D’Arcy’s original microscope slides.

The museum is in the Carnelley Building, just behind the University Tower on Park Place. 

Please enter by the main front door, not the glass entrance to the side.