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Interpreting sites and producing interpretive materials

Colour-printed Interpretive leaflets produced by the Lothian and Borders and Fife groups for sites such as Calton Hill, are produced through grant-aid and distributed free. Funding has come from sources as diverse as SNH, BGS, UKRIGS Landfill Tax, Curry Fund of the Geologists' Association, Edinburgh World Heritage Trust, West Lothian and Fife councils, and local amenity and community associations. Simple photocopied leaflets have been printed by the local council as sponsorship.

Posters, at A2, A3 or A4, are a medium used extensively by Lothian & Borders group, and emulated by the Fife group. Posters are either of a general nature, such as one produced on the geology of West Lothian, or are site specific, such as the three prepared for the Union Canal and Corstorphine Hill. Though not a RIGS, the Canal and the Falkirk Wheel represent a Millennium Project, and agreement has been made for the RIGS posters to be produced in bulk by British Waterways and used for world-wide publicity.

Field excursions led by the Lothian & Borders group, are an accepted part of the annual Edinburgh International Science Festival. Several groups contribute to the biennial Scottish Geology Festival and the Fife group to their local Council's own environmental events.