No tomorrow for Tomorrow’s People

Employability organisation Tomorrow’s People – who’s slogan was Making Life Work – has gone into adminstration. Tomorrow’s People, a registered charity, had a base in North Edinburgh Arts and the company’s failure has resulted in the loss of two local jobs and an uncertain future for young people who were being supported into employment, training or further education. Continue reading No tomorrow for Tomorrow’s People

New Year, new training programme with Tomorrow’s People

Tomorrow’s People are now recruiting for the next Engage programme starting on the 15th of January!!!!

If you are or know anyone, 16 to 24 years old looking for a job, training, fun and an extra bit of cash, contact us by Facebook, phone 07980 669 019 or email jmassie@tomorrows-people

Thanks!!!

Simaica Carrasco
Engage Coach, Tomorrow’s People 
Office +44(0)1313 432 191
Mobile +44(0)7500 047 926

Connor is Young Achiever of the Year

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Connor Davidson, who’s from Leith, has won an award for young people who have overcome personal barriers to move into employment, education or training. Twenty-two year old Connor completed a Tomorrow’s People programme that supports those who are struggling to get into work, and the young man has impressed everyone with his attitude and determination.

Continue reading Connor is Young Achiever of the Year

Tomorrow’s People team works it out!

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The latest Tomorrow’s People team ‘graduated’ at a ceremony at Pincent Masons on Edinburgh Quay in Fountainbridge yesterday.

Most of the original twelve participants in the latest Working It Out – North Edinburgh programme have already moved on to pastures new – into work, training and further education – but stalwarts Danny, Donnie, Lewis and Tom were still there at the end and were presented with certificates at yesterday’s event.

Tomorrow’s People Task Force Leader Heather Law, who supervised the team, produced a short film which highlighted the group’s activities over the four month course – and they certainly put in some hard work, providing over 300 hours of volunteering!

Just some of the young people’s activities include: moving three tons of sand to fill a sandpit, ten weeks of training sessions with Edinburgh Rugby, painting and decorating, army training, producing a mural with National Galleries Scotland, planning and interview sessions with international law firm Pincent Masons and helping Community Action North to transform Muirhouse Shopping Centre for Christmas!

The event, kindly hosted by Pincent Masons, offered an opportunity to celebrate all that commitment and hard work – well done, guys!

A new batch of recruits will join Tomorrow’s People in January, but Danny, Donnie, Lewis and Tom and their team-mates will certainly be a hard act to follow!

Tomorrow’s People exhibition opens … tomorrow!

Tomorrow’s People exhibition to open in North Edinburgh Arts shop unit 

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The National Galleries of Scotland and Tomorrow’s People would like to invite you to the opening of their exhibition on Monday (7 December), 12-5pm.

You can view this collaborative piece of work in The Artists’ Shop (inside Muirhouse Shopping Centre, closest to NEA).

Also a great opportunity to speak with Tomorrow’s People to find out more about the organisation and all the brilliant work that they do around our community.

www.tomorrows-people.org.uk
www.nationalgalleries.org

Can we have a Christmas tree? Yes we CAN!

Community celebrates despite deluge

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It lashed down with rain all afternoon and into the evening – a real Muirhouse monsoon! – but local people came out in their droves to see the Christmas tree lights being switched on in Muirhouse Shopping Centre last night.

Craigroyston High School’s Josh Hardwick did the honours and kicked off an evening of music, food and fun that seemed to get everyone in the festive mood!

So many people to thank:

  • Craigroyston Community High School for sharing their wonderful musical talents – the band and the choir were superb.
  • Local schools Oaklands, Rowanfield, Pirniehall, St David’s, Forthview and Craigroyston for creating the beautiful snowflakes that now adorn the centre
  • Fleurtations for delivering, erecting and decoration the tree
  • Urban Union for supplying the Christmas tree
  • The City of Edinburgh Council for their support and advice throughout
  • Weber Shandwick for getting things done
  • North Edinburgh Arts staff for their wonderful support: particularly John for his technical wizardry, Michelle and her team for the fabulous food (and wonderful winter punch!) and for sharing her artistic skills to make the shopping centre look great
  • Local police for supervising the event
  • The Tomorrow’s People team for all their hard work in decorating the Centre and making the event such a success.
  • Santa for … well, just being Santa!
  • And finally, the children and families of North Edinburgh who came out on such a horrible night to support the event. Comments have been overwhelmingly positive – maybe we’ll try another event in the New Year?

Thanks, everyone!

Andy & Dave, Community Action North (CAN)

Our day in pictures (below)

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There are more on Facebook too …

 

 

Tree-mendous: Christmas arrives in Muirhouse!

Tonight’s the night at Muirhouse Shopping Centre

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Dull old Muirhouse Shopping Centre will be transformed into a local winter wonderland tonight when Community Action North (CAN) kicks the Christmas season off in style!

Why are we doing this? During the first phase of the Community Action North project we spoke to dozens of local groups and hundreds of local people – and one of their biggest complaints was about the state of the shopping centre. Everyone agrees it’s not the most welcoming environment, so we decided to do something about it – even if only temporarily. And when Urban Union kindly offered to donate a real Christmas tree we thought: if places like Corstorphine, Morningside and Stockbridge can have public Christmas trees, why not Muirhouse too?

It’s taken a while to organise and has presented a number of challenges – I’m sure Santa’s Christmas present run is easier to plan – but we’re almost there and tonight we hope local people will join us to celebrate our community at a very special time of year.

We’ve been working away to make the Centre look a little bit brighter – children from the local primary schools created some brilliant snowflake stencils and these are now being painted on the walls by a team from Tomorrow’s People, supported by Austeja from North Edinburgh Arts.

Our Christmas tree, a mighty twenty-two foot Norwegian Spruce, was delivered and erected yesterday and will be decorated today. We’ll also be adding some more lights around the Centre to give it that festive feel. There’s still a lot to be done, but we’ll get there!

So what could possibly go wrong? Well, quite a lot – as many local people have been quick to point out! However we’ve looked at all the possibilities, we’ve weighed up all the risks and we’re giving it a go. Christmas is a time of hope, of new beginnings and more than anything it’s about children – and we believe our local children deserve to have their own tree, here in their community.

Among tonight’s highlights:

  • Christmas Tree lighting ceremony
  • Music from Craigroyston Community High School
  • Free festive food and drink at North Edinburgh Arts
  • Sweets for the children
  • A visit from Santa
  • An opportunity to hear about CAN – what CAN can do for you, for groups and for our community

The festive fun kicks off at 5pm. Santa Claus is coming to Pennywell tonight – we hope you will too!

Andy and Dave, Community Action North CAN

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