Visit Scotland’s largest heritage mural

The Colinton Tunnel is a Scottish Charitable Incorporated Organisation (SCIO), regulated by the Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator. Our registration is SC048476 and we were registered in June 2018. Our Trustees are drawn from all walks of life and we are able to draw on their wide range of valuable life, work and public service experience. We set out to create a major art project that would both celebrate our community’s cultural heritage and revitalise the local economy.

The charity was established specifically to create and maintain a major mural in the disused Colinton Tunnel, formerly part of the Balerno Branch railway line. When the concept was first suggested, it quickly became clear that no existing local organisation had the capacity to create, manage, and fundraise for such a major project, so a group of like-minded individuals pursued it. We made a point, from the outset, of consulting as widely as possible with all stakeholders, of involving as many members of our community as possible (particularly young people) and of working collaboratively with all other local organisations. Those principles continue to be our priorities as we move from creating Scotland’s largest heritage mural to the longer term processes of care, maintenance and continuing development.