Forth Neighbourhood Partnership Public Meeting is on Wednesday 31 August at 7pm in The Church Hall, Granton Baptist Church, 99 Crewe Road North. Please see below for further details: Continue reading Forth Neighbourhood Partnership meets on Wednesday
Category: Royston/Wardieburn
GYC to stage Big Obstacle event
The Big Obstacle, Inverleith Park: Sunday 18 September
Granton Youth Centre are hosting a 4k charity fun run called The Big Obstacle, which will be held on Sunday 18th of September at Inverleith Park as part of an event with Inverleith Neighbourhood Partnership. There will also be a walk and cycle festival on the same day!
This is your opportunity to fundraise for your chosen organisation/charity.
The Big Obstacle will bring the community together and encourage young people and adults to get active and have fun!
All participants will receive a t-shirt, certificate, medal and healthy snack.
Availability is limited and will be on a strictly first come, first serve basis. Both individuals (£5pp) and teams(£20pt) (up to 5 people per team) can register.
Anyone interested please contact thebigobstacle@grantonyouth.com and we can give you all the relevant information
The Big Obstacle has been planned and organised by local young people for young people!
If you need anymore information please let me know, also the information is all on our facebook page if you would be able to share that would be great! Thanks
Shelley Cummings
Youth Worker, Granton Youth Centre
All together now: Making a difference at Royston Wardieburn
Making a song and dance at community event!
Around fifty local people took part in the latest ‘Getting Together, Making a Difference’ event at Royston Wardieburn Community Centre last week. Taking place on ‘Living Life’ Day, the gathering offered an opportunity for people from diverse backgrounds to get to know their neighbours better, make new friends, learn new skills and create new artworks.
Workshop sessions followed introductions and the official opening of the Getting Together, Making a Difference’ photography exhibition.
The workshop aims:
Provide an opportunity for participants to get to know each other
through an activity
Introduce participants to songs, poems, art work which focus theme of
diversity and solidarity
Provide an opportunity for partiipants to create poetry, music and art
work which can be shared with other workshop groups after lunch
Create an opportunity to send a positve message on diversity, difference
and solidarity to the wider community
Workshop 1 : Poetry
Workshop led by Jim Aitken
Supported by Lynn McCabe and Fiona Manson
Workshop 2: Music
Workshop led by Jed Milroy
Supported by Hannah Kitchen
Workshop 3: Arts
Workshop led Mo Brand
Supported by Anna Baran and Lydia Markham
The event proved to be a great success and a lot of fun: creating new friendships, developing relationships, fostering greater understanding and producing some impressive artwork, a poem and a brand new song, too!
The poem:
Getting Together
Getting together, making a difference
Getting together, making a difference
For future families, and our community
Solidarity
Binding you and me
From wartime to Thatcher
The taxes, the cuts
We fought against it
For a better place for us
We’re getting together
For ceilidhs and meals
For visits and trips
It’s turning the wheels
Into the future
Our community
Our children, their children
Will be running free.
And the song? Well, It goes something like this … :
PICTURES: Lynn McCabe
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Getting Together, Making A Difference at Royston Wardieburn
Community Event, Thursday 25 August 10am – 2pm
Royston Wardieburn Community Centre
The latest Getting Together, Making a Difference event takes place at Royston Wardieburn Community Centre tomorrow.
We are kicking off at 10.00 am with coffee and scones in the cafe and an opportunity to look at our new exhibition which includes photographs from previous getting together making a difference events, last year’s Burns Celidh, the Spring Chickens and this year’s adult summer programme.
We will then have a number of activities taking place in different parts of the building. People can chose to take part in either music, poetry or arts workshops. Each activity will start at 10.30 and will run until approximately 12.20. A free lunch will be served in the cafe from 12.30 – 1.15 and this will be followed by entertainment. We are aiming to finish by 2.00 p.m.
A crèche has been organised to allow parents with pre-school children to take part. If people require a creche place, they should call the centre tomorrow if possible to book a place as the crèche is likely to be busy (tel 552 5700).
The event is open to everyone – the more the merrier!
Getting together poster aug 2016
For further information contact Lynn McCabe or Lydia Markham at Royston Wardieburn Community Centre, 552 5700
Continue reading Getting Together, Making A Difference at Royston Wardieburn
Forth Neighbourhood Partnership public meeting
The next Forth Neighbourhood Partnership Public Meeting is on Wednesday 31 August 2016 at 7pm in The Church Hall, Granton Baptist Church, 99 Crewe Road North. See below for further details.
Forth Neighbourhood Partnership
Public Meeting
At 7pm on Wednesday 31st August 2016
Granton Baptist Church, 99 Crewe Road North
Come along and hear about:
- Progress on the move to Locality Working by City of Edinburgh Council and Partners – and what this means for residents of North Edinburgh
- Potential changes to flight paths at Edinburgh Airport
- Improvements at West Pilton Park
- Progress on the Regeneration of North Edinburgh
There will also be a short period during the meeting for Neighbourhood Partnership business.
An agenda and papers will be available nearer to the meeting. For further information contact Jim Pattison, 529 5082 – jim.pattison@edinburgh.gov.uk
Sign up for The Big Obstacle
Dear colleague,
Granton Youth Centre are going to be hosting a 4k charity fun run called The Big Obstacle and we would like to invite you to take part.
The Big Obstacle will be held on Sunday 18 September at Inverleith Park as a joint event with Inverleith Neighbourhood Partnership. There will also be a walk and cycle festival on the same day!
This is your opportunity to fundraise for your organisation/charity. The Big Obstacle will bring the community together and encourage young people and adults to get active and have fun!
All participants will receive a t-shirt, certificate, medal and healthy snack.
Availability is limited and will be on a strictly first come, first serve basis. Both individuals and teams (up to 5 people per team) can register.
More information and registration forms can be found below.
Any questions or completed registration forms to be returned by Friday 12th of August to this email address. Even if you want to book a team slot and we can get team information closer to the time that is okay.
The Big Obstacle has been planned and organised by local young people for young people!
We look forward to hearing back from you and hope to see you on the 18th of September.
Shelley
thebigobstacle@grantonyouth.com
Free Summer Programme for adults at Royston Wardieburn Community Centre
Royston/Wardieburn Adult summer programme kicked off on Tuesday with a visit to the Scottish Parliament. After viewing the World Press Photo exhibition by the world’s leading photo journalists*, participants had a meeting with Ben MacPherson, the new MSP for the Forth Ward. Continue reading Free Summer Programme for adults at Royston Wardieburn Community Centre
More Hidden Gems Walks
Following the success of last year’s Hidden Gems walks PCHP are running another series of six walks discovering parts of North Edinburgh you never knew existed! Even people who have lived in North Edinburgh all their lives are guaranteed to find out new things about their local area.
“I can’t believe I learned so much about the area I lived in considering I have been here all my life” said Kathy, who joined in with last year’s walks.
All walks are led by PCHP’s award-winning walk leaders and will be at an easy pace. All walks start at 7pm except the first one (21 July) which starts at 6.30pm
The first walk takes you to Lauriston Castle. Meet up at Silverknowes Golf Course at 6.30pm on Thursday (21 July). The walk will take about an hour to an hour and a half.
21st July Meander Round Lauriston Castle Gardens 1 mile
NB this walk starts at 6.30pm not 7pm
Meet Roundabout Silverknowes Golf Course Silverknowes Rd, EH4 5ET
28th July All that Sparkles Art Walk 2 and ¾ miles
Meet North Edinburgh Arts Centre 15a Pennywell Rd, EH4 4TZ
4th August Discovering Granton’s Industrial Past 1 mile
Meet north side Granton Square by Lochinvar Drive EH5 1HE
11th August Long Gone Schooldays 1.4 m
Meet north side Granton Square by Lochinvar Drive EH5 1HE
18th August North Edinburgh’s Lost Medieval Walled Garden 2m
Meet Prentice Centre 1 Granton Mains Ave, EH4 4GA
25th August Foraging for Free 3 miles
Meet North Edinburgh Arts Centre 15a Pennywell Rd, EH4 4TZ
For more details please contact 0131 551 1671 or email admin@pchp.org.uk
Clare Symonds (Development worker – Physical Activity)
Move It, Pilton Community Health Project
73 Boswall Parkway, Edinburgh EH5 2PW
0131 551 1671
Cracking down on motorbike crime
Young people riding motorbikes dangerously on our streets, green space, cycleways and even pavements has been causing anger and alarm in North Edinburgh for a long time now, so local residents will be delighted to hear that city police have launched a new operation dedicated to tackling motorbike theft and associated antisocial behaviour in the Capital. Continue reading Cracking down on motorbike crime