Peter Wright

Mugdock Country Park - Thursday 8th Sept - 7pm

NOTE: Tickets for this event are also available Mon to Fri from Mugdock Park Office.

One of the strong threads that has linked both Peter`s work and leisure time, has been young people and the outdoors. With a career largely in youth work, and latterly running the Duke of Edinburgh`s Award in the Edinburgh area, he was also a co-founder of Youth in Trust (now NTS Conservation Volunteers and Thistle Camps), instigator of The Green Team, and co-founder of the John Muir Award, amongst a variety of other things. `Lets make it happen for young people` could well be his motto, because that is indeed what he has done. So he applied the same resolve to his own Watershed epic in 2005, with his trek along 1,200km of bog, rock, mountain, moor and forest - the genesis for Ribbon of Wildness - Discovering the Watershed of Scotland.  Sharing his experiences with others now pretty much fills his retirement.