Homes for Everyone: Solidarity protest with homeless people

END THE HORROR of SLUM HOMELESS HOSTELS IN EDINBURGH
Wednesday 17 January 10am – 11.30am
Abbots House 10 Links Place EH6 7EZ Continue reading Homes for Everyone: Solidarity protest with homeless people

Forth Neighbourhood Partnership meets on Thursday

Forth Neighbourhood Partnership will meet on Thursday 18th January from 6 – 8pm at North West Locality Office in West Pilton Gardens. 

Items on the agenda include information on walking and cycling improvements on Lower Granton Road, an introduction to the new Health and Social Care Manager, updates on the North West Locality Improvement Plan and the latest Community Grants Fund allocations. There’s also an opportunity to raise issues with your local councillors during the Question Time session.

All welcome.

See below for full set of meeting papers:

FNP 180118 Full papers final

Additional branch for Muirhouse Medical Group

Muirhouse Medical Group Too!

Muirhouse Medical Group is to open an additional branch within the newly completed Pennywell All Care Centre (PACC) from 1st February. The surgery will join other services based in the new building in Pennywell Gardens, including a dental practice, Social Work, physiotherapy, health visitors and CAMHS, amongst others. Continue reading Additional branch for Muirhouse Medical Group

Tonight’s West Pilton youth discussion goes ahead as planned

Tonight’s West Pilton West Granton Community Council meeting is going ahead, West Pilton Neighbourhood Centre have confirmed.

It was feared that the discussion on youth issues would have to be cancelled due to staff sickness but janitorial cover has been found and the meeting will go ahead as planned.

The meeting starts at 7pm – all welcome.

Focus on youth at community council meeting

West Pilton West Granton Community Council

Tuesday 9 January, 7pm

West Pilton Neighbourhood Centre

Dear All,

A Happy New Year to you!
Just giving you a heads up that our January meeting will include a discussion led by Ben Macpherson MSP on the subject of crime and young people.
An invitation has been sent to the Police and the Council and to the young people and youth provision in the area to join us in this discussion.
The meeting has been moved to the 9th January to allow Ben and others to attend.
Hope to see you there,
Willie Black (Chair, West Pilton West Granton CC)

New Year, new name for North West Carers

The name will change but the project’s focus remains the same: supporting local carers young and old, North West Carers Centre annual general meeting decided last month. Members voted unanimously for a name change to open up more funding opportunities for the Prentice Centre-based project, which will become Capital Carers Ltd. in April. Continue reading New Year, new name for North West Carers

The year in pictures: November

Edinburgh Music School Open Day … despite closure threat (later lifted)

Living in Harmony training

Public Meeting to discuss effects of welfare reforms

Forth 1 kicks off Christmas charity appeal

Granton & District Community Council holds open meeting on planning democracy

Wardie Bay Beachwatch: the message is getting though at last (helped by Blue Planet 2)

Hearts players get the Christmas jumpers on early to support Save the Children

16 days of action against gender-based violence

At last … a memorial for Edinburgh’s Elsie Inglis is unveiled at Central Library

Muirhouse Shopping Centre’s coming down …

… so what happens next?

Castle Street Christmas Fair

Paolozzi sculptures take a walk to Hillside Place while Leith Street works continue

Granton Community Gardeners prepare Harvest Meal

Housing Minister visits Muirhouse regeneration area

St Andrew’s Day appeal

First Minister lays wreath on Remembrance Sunday

Muirhouse Housing Association: Moneywise at Craigroyston High School

Robert Mugabe forced out

Royal couple celebrate 70th wedding anniversary

and Price Harry gets engaged

Tree planting on West Pilton Park

Charity cheque from Leonardo’s

Da Vinci painting sells for record £341 million

Ferryhill Christmas Fayre

 

The year in pictures: September

Hurricane Irma devastates the Carribean

New gardening group at Granton Youth Centre

Strictly Come Dancing lineup announced

Cheese and wine at Starbank Park

Glowing Gold in September

Community Day in Granton

Inverleith Festival of Walking & Cycling

Davidsons Mains pipe band make a record

ParkLife AGM

Wardie Bay Beachwatch

Dearie me …

The MELA’S back after an enforced absence

Immigration Party at Porty

Aussie Big Band at Bristo Baptist Church

66 Yessers on the march again: Hope Over Fear event in Glasgow

USA and North Korea: more sabre-rattling

North Korea escalates nuclear threat

Traffic misery on Leith Street

Open Day at Fettes HQ

Queensferry Crossing opens

Bus driver miscalculates at Western General

Curry Night at West Pilton Neighbourhood Centre

Ryanair messes up big time over holiday rosters … and there’s even an apology!

Rohingyan families flee persecution in Myanmar

The year in pictures: August

Las Ramblas terror attack in Barcelona

Cash for Kids support for Pilton Youth & Children’s Project

Actor Robert Hardy dies

Hearts sack first team coach Ian Cathro

Yes, it’s Festival time again in Edinburgh

Botanics’ smelly plant makes annual reappearance

Twentieth anniversary of Princess Diana’s death

Community is outraged when a ten year old boy is mown down by a hit and run motorcyclist near Drylaw Police Station

Free football at West Pilton Park

North Korea and USA engage in another bout of sabre-rattling … but on a nuclear scale

Fortieth anniversary of Elvis Presley’s death

Edinburgh Mela’s back!

Racial tensions run high during white supremacist march, Charlotttesville

Dementia awareness event at The Botanics

Bruce Forsyth dies

Craig Levein lands Hearts job

Sierra Leone mudslide kills hundreds and leaves tens of thousands homeless

Mayweather stops Conor McGregor in tenth round of multi-million dollar ‘Fight of the Century’

Kezia Dugdale resigns as Scottish Labour leader

Trinity Community Gala

World of Football opens on Marine Drive