New 'magical' family-friendly fairy trail opens to the public

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A new family-friendly fairy trail has opened in Mauchline thanks to the hard work of volunteers.Mauchline Community Association launched the new trail at Tinkers Wood as they hope to build on the success of their pumpkin trails.Volunteers from the community association, local businesses, Mauchline Action Group and Mauchline Primary School have all contributed to the trail which contains a range of surprises for visitors.Mauchline Hardwood supplied a new sign for the trail while pupils from the school created doors to be placed along the trail after volunteers had cleared and extended the path.Alan Cook, chairperson of Mauchline Community Association, told Ayrshire Live that they hope to provide an engaging trail for visitors and residents to spend their time.He said: “We do events within the Centre Stane and outwith within the village.

We do the pumpkin trail up at the Tinkers Wood and we wanted to bring it alive.“The action group has been working hard behind the scenes getting the path ready and extending the path.

The association has joined in and assisted with volunteers to get it all cut back and make it more accessible to all.“We saw young ones coming up with their families and engaging with the props we were putting out on the pumpkin trail so we thought about how we could make this better.“We came up with the idea that we would love to make a community fairy trail.

We wanted to make it magical for the kids to engage with their parents and grandparents and come up and spend half an hour or an hour here.