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The Ythan Project
Education and Awareness Raising
The project aimed to raise local people’s awareness of the importance of the river and how we can all help to protect it.
This included working with young people and children, who will be the decision-makers of the future. Local school pupils were involved in designing a logo for the project, and some of their designs were displayed at a fun day held in Newburgh in March 2002 (see the photo below, which shows one of the participants in the fun day voting for his favourite logo).
This open day also gave them the opportunity to try their hand at a variety of different river related games and activities, including the Yellow Fish Project. This involves painting yellow fish next to road drains and delivering postcards to nearby houses to remind people that drains should not be used for the disposal of things like waste oil.
Children attending the fun day in Newburgh took part in painting around the village, and the work was such a success that we decided to paint more Yellow Fish in Fyvie and Ellon the following spring. The photo below shows some of the painting work in action.
In the spring of 2003, various brownie and cub groups from around the Fyvie area took part in a competition to create a poster that explained why people shouldn’t put the litter in the river. The winner of this competition was decided at another fun day, this time held in Fyvie Castle. The winning poster can be seen below, and around the schools of the Ythan catchment area.
As part of the project’s final conference in October 2004, we held another fun day, this time in Ellon, and this was also attended by the delegates at the conference, to give them a taste of community involvement in action.
Some local children have also helped out with restocking part of the Ythan system with young trout and with planting broad-leaved trees next to a tributary burn at Haddo Country Park.
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