10am • School Gates, Bertha Park
Community Litter Pick
Meet at the school gates. Bags and gloves provided — just bring yourself. Another ring added to the record.
Perth • Big Tree Country
Bertha Park
Under the same canopy since 2020.
Perthshire has more champion trees than anywhere else in Britain. Bertha Park sits inside that canopy — ancient woodland all around, and a community growing into its own rings. Every resident is a branch. The canopy thickens every year.
This Season
Every meeting, every litter pick, every planting day — another ring in the record. The woodland remembers everything.
7pm • Bertha Park Community Hub
Residents Group Monthly Meeting
Planning updates, the new crossing proposal, and a conversation about the community garden expansion. All residents welcome.
2pm • Community Garden
Spring Bulb Planting Day
The gardening group is putting in daffodils and tulips along the main path. Come for an hour, stay for the afternoon.
6:30pm • Bertha Park Sports Pitches
Youth Football Sign-Ups
New season starting May. Ages 6–14. Qualified coaches, safe environment, real community spirit.
Life Below the Canopy
The understory is where most of the life happens — news, events, and voices from the community growing beneath the trees.
News
Crossing Approved in Principle
Perth & Kinross Council has confirmed the pedestrian crossing on the main road will proceed to detailed design. Expected completion: autumn 2026.
Read more →New Pharmacy Opens This Week
Boots on the high street opens Tuesday. Dispensing services, walk-in consultations, and NHS services all available from day one.
Read more →Community Garden Gets a Greenhouse
Thanks to a PKC small grants award, we've ordered a 6×4m greenhouse for year-round growing. Volunteer assembly day: 3 May.
Read more →Coming Up
Community Litter Pick
Residents Group Monthly Meeting
Spring Bulb Planting Day
Voices
Fiona M. Resident since 2022“Moving here felt like stepping into something still forming. Three years on, it feels like home — and we helped make it that way.”
David T. Resident since 2023“My kids know every family on our street. That doesn't happen by accident. It happens because people show up.”
Margaret L. Resident since 2022“When I needed help after my operation, three different neighbours offered. That's the kind of place Bertha Park is becoming.”
An ancient woodland
in the making.
Bertha Park opened in 2020. It sits where the River Almond meets farmland at the edge of Perthshire's great forest estate — 200,000 acres of Big Tree Country, home to more champion trees than anywhere else in Britain.
The residents group started as a handful of neighbours. Now it's the connective tissue of a proper community. A woodland grows from its roots — quietly, steadily, adding rings no matter what the weather brings.
2,000+ Residents
6 Years growing
200k Acres of woodland
This community is an ancient woodland in the making. Give it time. It's already beautiful.
— Resident since 2021, Bertha ParkPlant yourself here.
Three ways to put down roots
Get involved
- Come to a monthly residents meeting — open to every household, no agenda to navigate, no jargon. Just neighbours talking.
- Join a working group: Community Garden, Events, Paths & Safety, or the new Play Parks team. An hour a month makes a difference.
- Subscribe to the newsletter — weekly, concise, written by residents for residents. What's on, what's changed, who needs a hand.
“The next meeting is always the best one. Because you're there this time.”
Next meeting: Tuesday 15 April, 7pm • Community Hub