People are most likely to hold positive views of young people as trustworthy and helpful to others, new research from the Scottish Government shows. The survey, published during the launch week of Year of Young People 2018 (above) examined the attitudes and perceptions of more than 1,000 adults towards 13-19 year olds. Continue reading Swinney: “More must be done to change attitudes to young people”
The Scottish SPCA is appealing for information after two ill frilled-neck lizards were found on a street in Edinburgh. Scotland’s animal welfare charity was alerted yesterday after a member of the public discovered the lizards at the back door of their flat on Stenhouse Drive. Continue reading SSPCA looking for info after lizards found abandoned
Stimulating artistic and cultural events across the length and breadth of the Capital is the drive behind a new £60,000 City of Edinburgh Council fund. The one-off ‘Local Events Fund’ aims to inspire audiences and artists who might otherwise not have the chance to participate in cultural ventures to take up the artistic challenge. Continue reading Opening up the arts: council funding for community groups
A pilot for a single card that can be used in any library has been launched in the north east of Scotland. The pilot gives readers access to more than 120 libraries – and 1.6 million books. Continue reading Sharing our stories: ‘One Card’ library pass to be trialled
Dear All,
It’s turning cold! Time to find a warm building, and cook lots of tasty food! You’re all invited to:
GRANTON COMMUNITY GARDENERS HARVEST MEAL 2017
TUESDAY, 21st November. Food served 5-7pm.
At Granton Parish Church (55 Boswall Parkway) -entrance on the corner of Wardieburn Street East.
FREE
ALL AGES WELCOME! (kids need to come with a responsible adult)
If you’d like to help out in any way, we need some people to help decorate, cook, serve food, or wash up. Please reply to this email or speak to Jayne or Tom if you’d like to volunteer!
You’re welcome to bring neighbours, friends and family.. (if you can RSVP it’s helpful to get an idea of numbers, but you can just show up!)
Big thank you to Granton Parish Church for letting us use their kitchen and hall!
This will be the first of a regular series of meals, every Tuesday (early evening) between now and 12th December. We have some funding from the Scottish Government to support this, so will be hosting as many meals as we can over the Winter.
We’re very glad to have a vegetarian chef working with us, Jayne, who also works as a cookery teacher, so she’ll be keeping us right and in charge of food! If anyone would like to help cook, it could be a good opportunity to share and learn some skills..
In other news:
Regular gardening drop ins are continuing, twice a week when the weather is ok. Meet 11am Tuesday or Saturday, at the garden on the corner of Boswall Parkway and Wardieburn Road. Yesterday we were planting garlic..
Bread club has been really popular, and is now happening roughly once a month. If you’d like to learn to bake or practice your skills, or would like to be contacted when we next have some of our own bread to sell, please get in touch! We’re about to mill our wheat from this year’s harvest, so we’ll have some more of our own flour to bake with.
We should hopefully have some new exciting updates to share fairly soon, watch this space!
Hope you’re all well,
Tom
Granton Community Gardeners
For more regular updates check: http://www.facebook.com/grantoncommunitygardeners.
TUESDAY 21 NOVEMBER, 2 – 4.30
Edinburgh College Granton Campus
The Scottish SPCA was delighted to receive a visit from members of a local canicross group who wanted to help promote the joys of owning a staffie for the charity’s annual Staffie Awareness Week. Continue reading Tyson shows off for Staffie Awareness Week
Don your antlers this December for a fundraising dash which makes a difference. Sense Scotland’s annual Reindeer Run takes place on Sunday, 3 December at Bellahouston Park, Glasgow, with all proceeds going to the charity.
Every step in the 5K Reindeer Run and Toddler Dash will help raise vital cash for people with communication support needs, enabling them to have choices in how they live their lives.
Heart Scotland will be there on the day. The Heart Angels will work their face-painting magic on participants and cheer them al
The charity is urging people to dig out their best festive get up, whether that be Rudolf, Santa, an elf or even a Christmas tree, with prizes for the best dressed.
Andy Kerr, Chief Executive of Sense Scotland, said: “The Reindeer Run 5K and Toddler Dash has become a staple event in our diary with runners returning year on year.
“The funds they raise will help us provide services which have a massive, positive impact on the lives of the people Sense Scotland supports. This festive event has something for everyone, so get a group of friends, family or colleagues together and kick–start your Christmas celebrations.”
Entry costs £10 for an adult and £5 for a child. To find out more or to register see www.sensescotland.org.uk.
In 2016 with your amazing support we raised £1 million in gifts and cash and made Christmas special for over 18,000 local children, and we want to do even more this year.
We’re asking you to buy an extra present that we can give to a disadvantaged local child to make their Christmas morning special. We need new and unwrapped gifts suitable for children and young people aged 0-18 years, and you can donate at our drop off points across the region. See the map below to find your nearest location.
We’re also looking for local organisations and schools to sign up and collect gifts during the appeal as well as anyone who’d like to fundraise, take part in our Jumper Day on 8th December, receive gifts and support from the appeal or just make a donation – go to https://planetradio.co.uk/forth/charity/events/forth-mission-christmas/ to get involved!
Together we can make a difference to local children this Christmas.
According to the NSPCC, there were over 12,000 counselling sessions with young people who talked to Childline about online issues last year, with an 87% increase in sessions over the past three years. Enigma Digital Limited works with families all across the UK to restore peace of mind to parents that are worried about their children being bullied by providing Enigma Recovery, the number one smartphone data recovery solution provider that allows users to retrieve stolen or deleted data. Continue reading Data recovery tool for parents in fight against cyberbullies
