The Southern Uplands Partnership
Working with local people, communities and businesses to make sustainable use of our natural and cultural heritage.
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The Southern Uplands Partnership (SUP) is a rural development charity, started in 1999 by local people keen to keep the communities and countryside of the south of Scotland alive and healthy.
The charity spans the breadth of southern Scotland from Dumfries & Galloway in the west to the Scottish Borders in the east, and works with a whole host of people, groups, government bodies, agencies and councils.
(The below video was made by Carlos Hernan featuring footage kindly supplied by the Talla-Hartfell Wild Land Area project, Connecting Threads and South of Scotland Golden Eagle Project.)
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The Southern Uplands Partnership
River Culture Animateur for the Upper Tweed
p/t 0.6 (21 hrs per week)
£30,000 (£18,000 pro rata)
This is an exciting opportunity to join the Connecting Threads project team. We are seeking an experienced and enthusiastic individual, with a background in cultural placemaking and/or participatory arts, to develop and deliver a programme of cultural activities in the Upper Tweed area (Moffat to Innerleithen). The role is part of a creative team, working alongside two other River Culture Animateurs, a River Messenger, and a River Culture Curator.
Connecting Threads is the cultural strand of Destination Tweed, a multi-part, landscape-scale project that includes the development of a new River Tweed Trail from source to sea. Connecting Threads engages with communities of interest (cultural, heritage, environmental and educational organisations) and communities of place along the length of the proposed 113-mile River Tweed Trail within the Scottish Borders, Dumfries and Galloway and north Northumberland.
Connecting Threads is delivered in partnership with Tweed Forum and is funded by the National Lottery Heritage Fund (NLHF), Esmée Fairbairn Foundation and others. The programme is delivered by a team of five and is in the third year of a five-year delivery phase. The project is managed by the Southern Uplands Partnership (SUP), a charity with 25 years’ experience of developing and delivering sustainable development projects across the south of Scotland.
Click here to download the River Culture Animateur Job Pack https://sup.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/River-Culture-Animateur-Job-Pack-2024.pdf
More details of the Connecting Threads project can be found at www.tweedriverculture.org and in the accompanying project Handbook, available to download here: Connecting Threads Handbook (PDF) Download
More details of the Destination Tweed project can be found at www.destinationtweed.org.
More details of the Southern Uplands Partnership can be found at www.sup.org.uk.
More details of the programme for the weekend can be found here:
https://www.goldeneaglessouthofscotland.co.uk/outreach/moffat-2024