Our AGM will be held online on Wednesday, 8th October 2025 at 7:30pm on Zoom.
The meeting should last about an hour.
If you would like to attend, please email friendsofroseburnmembership@gmail.com and you will be sent the link for the meeting.
FoRP members have been emailed with an invitation. If you are not a member, please join for free at Join for Free!
You can see the papers for the meeting at http://friendsofroseburnpark.org.uk/files/2025/09/Friends_of_Roseburn_Park_AGM_2025_papers.pdf
The cafe will now be open on Tuesdays, meaning that the only day of the week it is closed will be Monday
Roseburn Park has been awarded FiT (Fields in Trust) status. This means the park is protected against developers and stops new buildings on this public land. The Friends of Roseburn Park (FoRP) first sought this status in 2017, but at that time we could not get sufficient Council support to proceed with our bid. With the conversion of the new cafe from the old toilet block and other local improvements, the park has become one the City of Edinburgh Council now agrees need protecting and so they have now approved our request. FiT status already applies to many Edinburgh parks; its protection is built around a legal agreement between the organisation Field in Trust and local authorities that ensures land so marked is protected in perpetuity.
To help mark the centenary of Fields in Trust, Roseburn Park has been selected as an example of a successful community park and one which FiT would like to commemorate. On Saturday 5th April 2025, the plaque (located under the Jubilee plaque at the cafe), was unveiled by the Lord Provost (Cllr Aldridge), the Chairperson of FiT (Ewan Gillies) and the Chairperson of FoRP (Jim McDonagh).
The help celebrate the event, there were activities in the park that day as follows:
11.30 Murrayfield Wanderers Ladies Team vs Livingston Ladies – No 2 pitch in west park
13.00 Murrayfield Wanderers Girls Practice Session- West section of park
13:00 Murrayfield DAFS AllStars/Dynamos practise – junior section on grass oval
14.45 Plaque Unveiling – Lord Provost, Chair FoRP, Chair FiT
15.00 Murrayfield Wanderers Select vs The Co-Optimists – No1 pitch in west park
An article about the celebrations can be seen in the Edinburgh Reporter here
On the 8th January, the Friends of Roseburn Park were delighted to receive a donation of £250 from a masonic group based at Roseburn Gardens. The donation was on behalf of the RWM (Right Worshipful Master), his Office Bearers and Brethren of Lodge Robert Burns Initiated 1781.
Pictured from the masons are Asst. Treasurer Ricky Jones & RWM Jim Turner with FoRP chair Jim McDonagh in the centre..
Also present from the Masons was Treasurer Jim Godfrey.
The donation will be used to support capital projects and other initiatives in the park including the possible introduction of communal tubs & planters.
The meeting should last about an hour.
If you would like to attend, please email friendsofroseburnmembership@gmail.com and you will be sent the link for the meeting.
FoRP members have been emailed with an invitation. If you are not a member, please join for free at Join for Free! | Friends of Roseburn Park (SCIO)
You can see the papers for the meeting at http://friendsofroseburnpark.org.uk/files/2024/09/Friends_of_Roseburn_Park_AGM_2024_papers.pdf
The meeting should last about an hour.
If you would like to attend, please email friendsofroseburnmembership@gmail.com and you will be sent the link for the meeting.
FoRP members have been emailed with an invitation. If you are not a member, please join for free at Join for Free! | Friends of Roseburn Park (SCIO)
You can see the papers for the meeting at http://www.friendsofroseburnpark.org.uk/files/2023/10/FORP_2023_AGM_Papers.pdf
(This comprises the agenda, last year’s AGM minutes, the chairperson’s report and the annual accounts.)
**OFFICIAL** – OPENING DATE FOR NEW ROSEBEAN CAFE – THURSDAY 21ST SEPTEMBER – the operators tells us it will be open 8am to 4pm every day, but not Mon and Tues.
Note the toilet is there for public use. Card payments only.
If you want to stay up to date, please “like” the Rosebean Cafe page at https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61550738500601¬if_id=1693831206620238¬if_t=follow_profile&ref=notif
Thanks to builder James Purves and co at All Aspects Building & Construction for a beautiful job
We held our launch event on Sunday 2nd July- and we’re also hoping to find out what park users would like us to focus on next in our survey.
The video showing all the work carried out lasts 10 minutes can be viewed below:
The full story behind the conversion project can be found at All Cisterns Go!! | Friends of Roseburn Park (SCIO)
The 2023 Survey results can be downloaded here http://www.friendsofroseburnpark.org.uk/files/2023/10/2023_Roseburn_Park_Survey_Results.pdf
Here are the photos from the launch:
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| Roseburn Shop: | Raffle Prize: |
| Art et Facts | Voucher for £50 framing |
| Brendan Haddock Jewellers | Necklace and earring set |
| Chapmans Property Management | Bottle of Prosecco |
| Claire Doig Hairdressing | Voucher £25 |
| Connell McFadden Estate Agents | Bottle of Prosecco |
| Dine | Voucher for £100 |
| House of Hound | Dog ball thrower |
| ID Hair & Murrayfield Skin Clinic | Basket of hair care products |
| Mortgage seekers | Bottle of Prosecco |
| Murrayfield Bar | Bottle of wine |
| Moving Pictures | Voucher for £50 |
| Anita Glasby Opticians | 2x children’s sunglasses |
| Roseburn Bar | Bottle of Whisky |
| Roseburn Shoe Repairs | Voucher for £10 |
| Ruby Rose | Hand painted bottle with LED lights |
| Sassy dog Groomers | Voucher for £60 plus another for facial |
| Steven Henderson Hair | Voucher for £75 |
| Tesco Express | Bottle of Rum, Jack Daniel’s and Sparking wine |
| Thallon Soulis | Voucher for cut and blow dry |
| The Hampton | Voucher for £30 meal, plus compimentary wine |
| Turkish Barbers | Vouchers x3 for cut & shave. |
| Vigo Delicatessen | 2x free coffee |
| Wight’s Chiropracters | Voucher for a Chiropractic assessment |
The event was covered in the Evening News at https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/people/edinburgh-roseburn-park-years-of-work-by-volunteers-transfom-derelict-toilet-block-into-community-cafe-4203889 and in the Edinburgh Reporter at https://theedinburghreporter.co.uk/2023/07/grand-opening-of-rosebean-cafe/
SURVEY
Friends of Roseburn Park (FoRP) asked residents in 2016 what they’d like to see in the park. Since then we’ve helped deliver some of the things residents wanted– the toilet block conversion to a café, the log bench, a better new play park, a new mural, new trees, BBQ slabs and benches and so on. We now want to refresh that vision. For that we need your help!
We are distributing 2,500 paper survey forms to the homes around Roseburn Park. We are also collecting views on the same questions online at tinyurl.com/roseburnparksurvey .
Can you let us know what you think of the ideas we’ve put forward– and add any you think we need to consider? We’ll use your feedback as the basis for grant applications.
We look forward to answering your questions at the launch, to which we’d like you to bring your completed forms to. If you can’t make it, please drop your forms through the Armoury door letterbox opposite, at 13c Riversdale Crescent before 13th August, please.
We’ll email out the survey results to FoRP members– it’s free to join us; do so on our website at www.friendsofroseburnpark.org.uk/join-for-free
You can also comment or “like” FoRP’s Facebook page at www.facebook.com/roseburnpark . Please email any questions you have to FriendsOfRoseburnMembership@gmail.com or quiz us at the Murrayfield Community Council meetings.
PARK FLOODS- AS IT IS SUPPOSED TO! We think the snowmelt from the Pentlands has contributed to this. It’s good to know the flood defences in Roseburn Park are doing their bit. This is the highest it has been since the flood of April 2000. It would need to get 2 or 3 feet higher to reach the new cafe, thank goodness!
Friends of Roseburn Park are promoting two events this Christmas:
We hope you will join us!