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Acclaimed Scarborough artists Angela and David Chalmers have united their talents to create a short film about the South Cliff Gardens for the Heritage Open Days. Working together as ‘Chalmers Creative’ the artists consider the Gardens to be their own front garden, as they live on the Esplanade above.

The … read more

South Cliff Gardens is looking for volunteers – and not just for gardening. There’s a wide range of opportunities for you to become involved.

Event Steward

Role: Help our events to run smoothly by becoming an Events Steward. You’ll be the heroes of the day, helping set up, meeting visitor, … read more

Work has started on the area below the Clock Cafe where the historic beach chalets collapsed in March 2018. The site is being cleared and a new retaining wall installed. This work should be completed in about 11 weeks time (6th November). Unfortunately this does not mean that the chalets … read more

A Digital Family Book Festival ran from August 10th to 16th 2020.
It featured daily challenges for children and videos of stories and poetry being read, plus conversations with several authors.

Details of the festivals events can be found on this Facebook page:
www.facebook.com/southcliffgarden

And all the videos can be … read more

The tender for the main South Cliff Gardens project works has been published.

The estimated contract start date is 7/12/2020 and its estimated end date is 10/12/2021.

The tender’s description says:
“Restoration and refurbishment works to buildings, structures and hard and soft landscaping, as well as the construction of … read more

The Saving South Cliff Gardens June 2020 project newsletter has been published. This includes:

• the launch of ‘Garden to Garden’ – a new commission by acclaimed arts/science organisation Invisible Dust in partnership with the South Cliff Gardens project team
• the photography/art competition
• blogs from the project team
• hints and tips on

‘Garden to Garden’ is a new commission by acclaimed arts/science organisation Invisible Dust in partnership with the South Cliff Gardens project team.
It’s a programme that will explore the changing ways we see, hear and experience nature; all through the lens of bees.

South Cliff Gardens now has an Instagram page:

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There’s a Community Engagement Officer for the gardens project – Gemma Alexander.
Gemma has created a Facebook page which she will be using to advertise forthcoming events and activities in the gardens or relating to them, for adults and children:

Be sure to click … read more

The Saving South Cliff Gardens May 2020 project newsletter has been published. This includes:

• project updates
• the photography/art competition
• blogs from the project team
• suggestions of things for you and your children to do at home during the coronavirus lockdown
• community news
• an appeal for help in finding information about

The Saving South Cliff Gardens April 2020 project newsletter has been published. It includes:

• resources to help you and your children cope with the coronavirus lockdown
• activities to stay connected with the project
• a photography/art competition
• blogs from the project team
• an appeal for help in finding information about the

The South Cliff Gardens Team are carrying out a survey because they need your help to decide on the project’s brand identity. They are developing a logo that will be used within the gardens on the new signage, new building, on all leaflets, media and the new website. This is … read more

A couple of updates:

1) The project was due to start construction work on site in August this summer. There now may be a delay to this due to COVID 19, however all the designs for the garden have been finalised and are almost ready to go out to tender … read more

Here’s a local TV report about the recent RSPB Big Garden Birdwatch events in South Cliff Gardens.
It includes That’s TV North Yorkshire interviewing Gemma Alexander the Community Engagement Officer.
(The video has a rather misleading title.)

There has also been a report in The Scarborough Review:
Ornithological fun … read more

The Saving South Cliff Gardens January 2020 newsletter has just been published. This includes:

• Current information about the tree management works.
• An appeal to find lost information about the memorial benches.
• Blog posts from the project’s two officers.
• News of recent work by the Friends of South Cliff Gardens group.

Here’s the latest (and final) newsletter from Balfour Beatty about the South Cliff stabilisation scheme:

You can download it here: savingsouthcliffgardens.com/…/Balfour-Beatty-Newsletter-6.pdf [1.3MB]

Also worth mentioning is the excellent fencing being carried out by local firm Brian Thompson Fencing:

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Here’s the Saving South Cliff Gardens November newsletter:

You can download it here:
savingsouthcliffgardens.com/…/Newsletter_November_2019.pdf [3MB]

It contains two blogs.
One is from the recently appointed Community Engagement Officer – Gemma Alexander. Read it here.
The other is from Vicky Thompson the Project Officer. Read it here.

There’s news from … read more

The South Cliff Community Group have been invited to contribute to a consultation about the South Cliff Gardens proposed tree works. It includes some interesting images showing the planned work.
A very large and complex document has been released, here it is in three sections:

Tree Works are due to … read more

At a recent meeting of the South Cliff Community Group it was announced that the first round of works for the Saving South Cliff Gardens project has been brought forward.
The works will reduce the number and height of trees across the gardens and will now begin in October 2019. … read more

The Saving South Cliff Gardens June 2019 newsletter has been published.

You can download it here: …June-2019-Newsletter.pdf [5.3MB]

It includes this blog post by Vicky Thompson the Project Officer:
…June-2019-blog-extract.pdf

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