Port of Leith’s bean busy supporting charity coffee morning

Port of Leith Housing Association (PoLHA) has raised nearly £1300 for Macmillan Cancer Support. PoLHA’s sheltered housing developments at St Nicholas Court in Ferry Road and Hermitage Court in Academy Park in Leith hosted events for their residents and locals as part of the charity’s ‘World’s Biggest Coffee Morning’ initiative. 

Around thirty people attended Hermitage Court’s light lunch and over forty people enjoyed the delights of home-made soup, home bake sale and raffle at St Nicholas Court. The complexes raised a very tasty £1087 between them, and a staff  coffee morning at PoLHA’s Constitution Street office raised a further £209!

Maureen Tait, Senior Sheltered Housing Coordinator for PoLHA who manages St Nicholas Court, said: “We are delighted so many people came along to help makes the coffee mornings a success. Without their generosity we would not have been able to raise such a vast amount of money to this fantastic cause.”

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Work under way on West Pilton’s 21st Century Homes

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Pupils from St David’s and Pirniehall Primary Schools rolled their sleeves up to lend a hand when work on the new 21st Century Homes development at West Pilton Crescent got underway last week. The children had the honour of cutting the first little sods … and no, definitely no further comments!

Our thanks for Councillor Vicki Redpath for the photographs

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Date set for NEN AGM

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It’s been quite a year for your community newspaper North Edinburgh News. You can find out what’s happened, what’s happening now and future plans when the NEN annual general meeting takes place next month.

The AGM will be held at 7.30pm on Tuesday 12 November at Spartans Community Academy’s club rooms, Ainslie Park. All welcome. A full agenda will be published here on the blog nearer the meeting date.