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During 1999 - 2000 The Pentland Hills Regional Park undertook a consultation exercise to determine its new strategy. One proposal which the Park adopted into its integrated Management Strategy, was "to establish an independent friends group". This coupled with our intention to encourage wider participation by the public led us on path to create the Friends of the Pentlands. The Park believed from the outset that any such group should operate independantly of the Park and take in a wider interest outwith the Park boundary.
We therefore approached, Dr Robin Aitken, an established Voluntary Ranger with the Regional Park to take up the challenge.

The rest, as they say is history, and their success story can be read in the Friends of the Pentlands website.

The Friends of the Pentlands state that they seek to

"act as a catalyst to promote the conservation, protection, and enhancement of the Pentland Hills, with particular emphasis upon recreational quality, public access, cultural heritage, landscape and biodiversity.
It is the wish of the founder members that the Society's work will demonstrate its all-embracing aspirations and its enthusiasm for integrated action and advocacy. It seeks to be anticipatory of change, advisory on land usage, educational, active where threats are perceived, and, above all, visionary in its approach to the environmental protection and enhancement of the Pentland Hills."

We would encourage those who enjoy the Pentland Hills - from all of their sides to support and join the society.