# EDEN (East Dundee Environment Network) SCIO

## Details

- **Country:** Scotland
- **Charity number:** SC029884
- **Status:** Active
- **Legal form:** SCIO (Scottish Charitable Incorporated Organisation)
- **Registered:** Feb. 24, 2000
- **Register:** https://www.oscr.org.uk/about-charities/search-the-register/charity-details?number=SC029884


## Contact

- **Address:** 12 Collingwood Street, Broughty Ferry, Dundee, County optional
- **Postcode:** DD5 2UE
- **Website:** www.dightyconnectmap.co.uk



## Activities

**Activities:** &#x27;It carries out activities or services itself&#x27;

**Purposes:** &#x27;the advancement of education&#x27;,&#x27;the advancement of citizenship or community development&#x27;,&#x27;the advancement of the arts, heritage, culture or science&#x27;,&#x27;the advancement of environmental protection or improvement&#x27;

**What the charity does:** To offer a range of cultural and environmental activities to encourage people to enjoy and raise their awareness of the greenspace around the Dighty Burn, to understand benefits of this connectedness and to help to maintain the valuable biodiverse area.   This is done through the development and delivery of workshops to engage children and adults to participate in indoor and outdoor experiences, which are often skill-building. These include the creation and installation of mosaics and other artistic activities. Often featuring local wildlife images, they offer an educational function. We also engage members of the public to collect opinions to help create new activities and we install functional facilities, such as benches, for people to further enhance their leisure time around the burn.

**Beneficiaries:** &#x27;No specific group, or for the benefit of the community&#x27;

**Objectives:** 4.1	To advance, promote and encourage environmental improvement and protection in and around eastern Dundee. 4.2	The advancement of arts, heritage, culture and science in green spaces through workshops, events, publicity and resource production. 4.3	The advancement of citizenship and community development though programmes to connect people to local their green space and training and support local people to deliver their own projects.  4.4	The advancement education about environmental, cultural and heritage issues via programmes, training, publicity and resource delivery.





## Geography

- **Main operating location:** Dundee City
- **Geographical spread:** Wider, but within one local authority area






