Day: February 3, 2017

Islamophobia participatory budgeting: ELREC appeal

Please VOTE for ELREC!

Police in Edinburgh and the City of Edinburgh Council are inviting people to vote for projects designed to create a city free from Islamophobia. Voting is open now and closes at 12 noon on Monday 13th February 2017. 

ELREC has applied for funding to ‘Shared Vision – Your Decision’ – Islamophobia Edinburgh project. We have two projects: one, in partnership with Edinburgh College, focuses on supporting young people and youth workers in tacking islamophobia; the other one aims to organise 4 community events to raise awareness on islamophobia and to address misconceptions on Islam and Muslim people.

You can vote online at https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/GQQS75Z or at your local library. You can vote for up to five projects.

Please spread the voice among all your contacts and friends and ask them to vote for ELREC’s two projects!

Thank you.

Foysol

Foysol Choudhury MBE

Chair, Edinburgh and Lothians Regional Equality Council, 14 Forth Street, Edinburgh, EH1 3LH

(T) 0131 556 0441   (E) admin@elrec.org.uk  (W) www.elrec.org.uk

March on the People’s Museum!

Curators thank protesters for donations

Edinburgh’s People’s Story Museum has thanked Monday night’s activists for a ‘flurry’ of donations. Following curators’ calls for placards, banners and photos relating to the city’s recent marches, the Museum has received more than 30 offers for donations and loans including films, homemade placards and personal testimonies. Continue reading March on the People’s Museum!

Dig this: project forges links between treasurer hunters and heritage professionals

A project encouraging closer collaboration between Scotland’s metal detecting community and the heritage sector has just published the first ever report to outline the extent and character of metal detecting in Scotland. Continue reading Dig this: project forges links between treasurer hunters and heritage professionals

I, Daniel Blake screening at Broughton High School

Thursday 9 February 7 – 9:30pm

Broughton High School

‘I, Daniel Blake’- This is a community screening at Broughton High School of ‘I, Daniel Blake’ before its official release on DVD.

Ken Loach marks his 50 years as a filmmaker and picked up his second Palme d’Or with this impassioned, angry and heartfelt drama about day-to-day life in austerity Britain. The film will begin at 7.00pm after which there will be a short comfort break followed by a performance from Saskia Enge a pupil at the City of Edinburgh Music School and then a question and answer session with a guest speaker.

Broughton High School is wheelchair accessible.

Please note the film is certificate 15.

The screening is free but donations to Broughton High School’s Inclusion Fund, which supports students from low income households participation in school activities, will be welcomed. There will be a collection point for food bank donations of canned goods and long life food which will be delivered to The Trussell Foundation.

To book a place please register at ‘I, Daniel Blake’

Lentil munchers to the rescue: Scotland’s Budget passed

‘Sandal-wearing watermelons’ save the day!

SNP MSPs have welcome the Scottish Government’s Budget saying that communities across Edinburgh are set to benefit from greater support as a result. They herald £1.3bn for NHS Lothian, as well as £230m to deliver new Sick Children’s Hospital and Department of Clinical Neurosciences in Edinburgh and funding to complete the Queensferry Crossing. Opposition politicians have lambasted the Greens for supporting the budget. Continue reading Lentil munchers to the rescue: Scotland’s Budget passed

Brock: John Lewis staff ‘deserve more for their loyalty than a P45’

Jobs blow as John Lewis Bonnington depot to close

Department store John Lewis is to close it’s Leith warehouse, with the loss of up to 78 jobs. The company plans to centralise distribution from it’s delivery hub in Glasgow, where 40 new jobs are to be created.

Commenting on the John Lewis proposals to close the Bonnington Road distribution depot, local MP Deidre Brock said: ““This is a deeply disappointing decision which has come as a bolt out the blue to staff at the Leith depot, many of whom have worked there for decades. They deserve more for their loyalty than a P45.

“The Leith depot is a busy hub and it seems daft to me to send trucks from Glasgow to deliver in Edinburgh when we’ve a perfectly good set-up here. I’ve asked John Lewis for more information on these proposals and stand ready to help where I can.”

The profits and benefits created by the company’s success are shared by all of John Lewis’ partners (i.e staff).

The John Lewis Partnership mission statement reads: ‘The John Lewis Partnership’s reputation is founded on the uniqueness of our ownership structure and our commercial success. Our purpose is ‘the happiness of all our members, through their worthwhile, satisfying employment in a successful business‘, with success measured on our ability to sustain and enhance our position both as an outstanding retailer and as a thriving example of employee ownership. With this in mind, our strategy is based on three interdependent objectives Partners, customers and profit.’