North Edinburgh’s Bangladeshis celebrate New Year
North Edinburgh’s Bangladeshi residents held an event to celebrate the Bengali New Year 1422 at Granton Parish Church on Boswall Parkway this afternoon.
Edinburgh & Lothian Regional Equality Council (ELREC) is supporting the local residents group and they are plan to initiate various engagement activities with the local services and the wider community over the coming months.
This weekend (Sat 18th & Sun 19th April) Pilton Community Health Project (PCHP) are very excited to be piloting a brand new ‘Seated Exercise Training Course’.
This has been developed by PCHP’s Physical Activity Development Worker in partnership with Specialist Instructors and Physiotherapists, in response to long term local need in North Edinburgh (and beyond).
For a number of years the physical activity development work at the PCHP has identified (and attempted to fill) a gap in the provision of regular physical activity for older people in residential homes, sheltered housing and lunch clubs. We strongly believe that every older person should have access to regular and FREE activity sessions that will maintain functionality and improve quality of life.
Please share this around your networks, there are still 3 or 4 spaces available on the training and it would be a real shame to see them go to waste!
Furthermore, since this is the first pilot it is FREE OF CHARGE!
Do you or someone you know work with (or would like to work with) older adults in North Edinburgh?
Do you or someone you know have an interest in and appreciation of the importance of keeping active in later life?
Are you interested in learning about the effects of ageing on the body and how this impacts health?
Would you like to gain new skills and knowledge around leading activity sessions for specialist groups?
Would you like to volunteer to deliver seated exercise sessions in North Edinburgh that might improve the health of older people?
If you can answer yes to any of these questions then this training might be just what you are looking for!
The training will be taking place at Pilton Community Health Project as follows:
Sat 18th April 9.30am-3.45pm
Sun 19th Apr 10.00am-3.15pm
If you are interested in taking part then please get in touch with liannepipskyj@pchp.org.uk or call 0131 551 1671 asap to secure your place!
Healthy regards
Lianne Pipskyj (Development Worker – Physical Activity)
Pilton Community Health Project
73 Boswall Parkway Edinburgh, EH5 2PW
0131 551 1671
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Craigroyston Classes poster April 2015
Our adult education classes at Craigroyston Community High School start back from 27 April and if we do not have enough numbers, the council will cancel classes, so please do encourage people to sign up -use it or lose it!
Also some Lone Parent Scotland cookery classes ongoing at the moment :
Cookery class at Craigroyston Community High School
67 Pennywell Road, Edinburgh EH4 4NL
Run by Lone Parent Scotland
Wednesday 15 April 10am-12.30pm
Making healthy burgers and coleslaw (ingredients all provided) for vegetarians and beef burgers
Thursday 16 April 10am -12.30pm
Making chocolate birthday cake (ingredients all provided)
All lone parents welcome with their children
Fiona Henderson
For all you football fans St Bernards will play their last match at Muirhouse Millennium Community Centre’s pitch at Linear Park on Thursday (16 April) – kick off 6.30pm (writes James McGinty).
The pitch will then undergo the installation of a new drainage system which should allow many more matches to take place in the future.
Edinburgh College student crowned Calumet Student Photographer of the Year
An Edinburgh College student has won the UK-wide Student Photographer of the Year award from photographic equipment company Calumet. Oliver Henderson, who is studying for a HND Professional Photography at the college, beat more than 1,000 students from across the UK to the top spot and a prize of £11,000-worth of photography equipment. Oliver is the first winner of the new competition.
Oliver’s photo is of a woman in a red dress under a spotlight on a rooftop, set against an industrial background. The judges praised the imagination, passion, meaning and flair behind the photo.
Competition judge and managing director of Calumet Photographic UK, Jon Warner, said: “It was extremely difficult to pick a winner as the quality of entries was so very high, but we felt that Oliver’s image (below) not only employed a high degree of technical merit, it is also an image of great impact, creativity and style. The use of light, composition and storytelling really set it apart from some very worthy runners-up.”
Oliver said: “I feel very proud and thankful to the people who have helped me to achieve this, like the tutors at Edinburgh College who constantly push me to realise my potential – although I feel I still have far to go. My inspiration for the image was something my brother once said: “fashion is pure fantasy”, which made me think of science fiction. I loved the idea of aliens spotting this beautiful girl and wanting to try and get close to her in the only way aliens can – it’s kind of weird thought process but there you go! I would again like to thank Calumet Photographic for having faith in me too.”
Jon presented Oliver with his award at the Canon Student Conference at The Photography Show at Birmingham NEC. Canon’s product intelligence professional, David Parry, also judged the competition, alongside professional photographers Rory Lewis and Tom Barnes.
Calumet launched this new competition in January and, over the two-month entry time, saw an exceptional response. Students were given free choice of topic and style, so the competition was open to landscape, portrait, lifestyle and abstract photographers.
The award is in partnership with a host of major photographic brands, including Canon, Manfrotto, B + W, Lastolite, Veho, Rotolight, Bowens, ColorMunki, DxO Software and Eizo.
The winning photo and all of the runners-up can be viewed at www.calphoto.co.uk/studentawards
Edinburgh College offers a range of photography courses, from introductory courses to BA level. Applications are currently invited for these courses and more than 900 other courses across the curriculum offered by Edinburgh College and starting in August on its four campuses.
Visit www.edinburghcollege.ac.uk for more information.
