Andrew Heald
@andyheald.bsky.social
Forester & tree farmer
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Inclusive landscape scale solutions
Regenerative bioeconomy
Sustainable cities
Works with the amazing Inovaland team
Lives in Edinburgh
🌲🌳👨🏽🌾🐂🥜🥭🪵
Inclusive landscape scale solutions
Regenerative bioeconomy
Sustainable cities
Works with the amazing Inovaland team
Lives in Edinburgh
Leith Chooses is the most established example that I’m aware of, although the pot of money seems to shrink each year - Edinburgh Community Climate Fund was also decided via participatory budgeting - some more info here
www.edinburgh.gov.uk/community-pl...
www.edinburgh.gov.uk/community-pl...
Participatory budgeting
Information on the City of Edinburgh Council's approach to participatory budgeting (PB)
www.edinburgh.gov.uk
January 25, 2026 at 3:58 PM
Leith Chooses is the most established example that I’m aware of, although the pot of money seems to shrink each year - Edinburgh Community Climate Fund was also decided via participatory budgeting - some more info here
www.edinburgh.gov.uk/community-pl...
www.edinburgh.gov.uk/community-pl...
Interesting that he was visiting a forestry exhibition - at his home in Hawarden Castle in north Wales, there is a collection of axes which WG used to use - i think there is & was more forestry on their Scottish estates than at Hawarden www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022...
‘Temple of peace’: rare chance to visit William Gladstone’s study
Books and other belongings of 19th-century PM on show during festival at Hawarden estate in north Wales
www.theguardian.com
January 15, 2026 at 2:29 PM
Interesting that he was visiting a forestry exhibition - at his home in Hawarden Castle in north Wales, there is a collection of axes which WG used to use - i think there is & was more forestry on their Scottish estates than at Hawarden www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022...