‘PCHP has been amazing for me’
Pilton Community Health Project enters 2019 facing closure unless a rescue package can be found. Scotland’s oldest community health project – PCHP was established in 1984 – could close in March following Edinburgh Integration Joint Board’s decision to reject PCHP’s application for Health & Social Care funding last month. Continue reading “A lifeline”: Pilton Community Health Project service users speak out
A charity Christmas event took place at Royston Wardieburn Community Centre on 16th December to support the Sreepur Village in Bangladesh. The date is an important one as it is also Victory Day of Bangladesh, the national day celebrated by Bengali nations worldwide. Continue reading Sreepur Village charity event at Royston Wardieburn
New Year, New course at Royston Wardieburn
Thank you all so much for all the support you’ve offered since news broke that Pilton Community Health Project will be forced to close in March next year as a result of disinvestment from The City of Edinburgh Council and NHS Lothian.
Please sign and widely share our petition to help #SavePCHP!
We believe that the decision taken by the Edinburgh Integration Joint Board to close the project is unfair to people in our community. In our petition, we ask that the City of Edinburgh Council and NHS Lothian secure project funding for one year to enable us to find new ways of sustaining the life-changing work that we do in our community.
Sign the Petition:
https://www.change.org/p/city-of-edinburgh-council-nhslothi…
The North Edinburgh community pledged to fight Health and Social Care funding cuts at a packed meeting at Muirhouse Millennium Centre last night. Continue reading Community organisations to fight funding cuts
TONIGHT AT MUIRHOUSE MILLENNIUM CENTRE
While Pilton Community Health Project faces an uncertain future due funding cuts, the local project will continue to deliver much-appreciated services at least until the end of the financial year in March.
Continue reading Pilton Community Health Project: keeping the show on the road
Monday 17th December
6pm – 8pm at Muirhouse Millennium Centre
Pilton Community Health Project could face closure unless alternative funding can be found. The respected local project – Scotland’s oldest community health organisation – was one of 35 who learned last week that they would receive no funding from the latest round of Health & Social Care grants. Continue reading Heartbreak as funding appeal rejected … but the fight goes on
We have read about the likely consequences of impending Health and Social Care grant funding cuts for Pilton Community Health Project, but PCHP is not alone. A number of local projects are bracing themselves to face cuts or worse – for some, the tabled recommendations could prove to be the end of the road. Continue reading Health and Social Care Grants: where the axe will fall
