Apple Picking Day at Springlands
Come along and pick your own apples from our Walled Garden Orchard at Springlands! A variety of delicious eating and cooking apples available from our established trees. Please bring along your own bag to fill (Apples charged at 40p a kilo). Tuesday 27th Sep – Thursday 29th Sep (11am-3pm)
Changes to the Ladeside Plant Centre opening hours
As we approach the end of the season it’s time for us to tweak the opening hours at the Ladeside.
Please note that we are now open Tuesday to Friday from 11am to 3pm and this will be the case until we close down for the winter on September 16th 2016.
Many thanks for your continued support – look out for our Christmas trees nearer the festive season too!
Giraffe attending Perth Show this weekend
This weekend, Giraffe will be holding a stall at the Perth Show within the Perthshire on a Plate food festival.
We’ll be selling our fab wee cakes and recipe books, and also promoting our Great Perthshire Picnic event.
Come along and say hi, get a free balloon for the kids and a brochure listing all the great events that are taking place this September.
A HUGE thanks to Bannerman decorators…
A great big thank you to Bannerman Decorators who have made a generous donation of paint, rollers, brushes, etc to help with our ‘Love the Lade’ project. It is hugely appreciated!
Our New Community Project – ‘Love the Lade’
LOVE THE LADE – Community Action Day
‘Love the Lade’ is having its first Community Action Day on Tuesday 24th May at 1:00pm and we would love you to get involved!!!
We at ‘Giraffe Social Enterprises’ are coordinating an exciting Community Project to restore our Lade canal back to its former glory.
Our aim is to conserve the Lade by improving its biodiversity and at the same time making it a relaxing and pleasant place for the community to use daily as a place to walk, cycle, jog or feed the ducks.
If you could spare some time to help us plant wildlife friendly plants, remove graffiti, litter pick, conduct wildlife surveys, clean up the Lade or help with our community art project we would love hear from you.
Our first Community Action Day will take place on Tuesday 24th May from 1:00pm at our Giraffe Ladeside Plant Centre, St Catherines Road, Ladeside, PH1 5RY.
Coffee, Tea and biscuits will be supplied!!!
Be great to have you with us,
Free Healthy Cycle Group Rides
Giraffe Social Enterprises has a new bicycle health venture and you are invited to join us for free weekly group rides.
- Free
- Wednesdays and Thursdays at 1:30pm
- Easy leisurely cycling on flat cycle paths in the local countryside
- Accompanied by a friendly guide
Email to book free weekly rides: paul@checkin-giraffe.uk
Rides leave from Ladeside Plant Centre: St Catherines Road, Ladeside, (Behind ‘The Range’ retail shop and beside Raads Garage.
Charity Golf Match Above Par!
We’d like to thank everyone who came along to our golf competition last Sunday, raising over £500 for our cause!
The sun was shining and the course, donated to us for the day by Glenalmond College was looking fantastic. In the end there were only 3 points separating the top 3 teams which is a fantastic result.

Enjoying the sun after the match.

One of our staff members, Paul, who went on later to name his team “The Bushwhackers”…

The winning team of Paul, Ian, Graeme and John (plus Sam the caddy).
Jennifer’s journey – 1000 miles on a bicycle
One of our amazing volunteers is riding 1000 miles on her bicycle to raise money for the Perth Cathedral Restoration Fund.
Jennifer Irving will be starting the fantastic journey on May 1st and is looking for as many donations as possible towards her cause. Please get behind her, hope for the wind to be at her back and throw some money into the pot!