£EITH CHOOSES: Wednesday night is results night!
No fewer than 1267 people attended the £eith Chooses participatory budgeting event on 23 February to cast their votes – and now it’s results time. Come to Leith Community Centre this Wednesday at 6.30pm to hear which community projects will be receiving £eith Chooses funding.
£eith Chooses has two themes this year: Help With Food and Supporting Vulnerable People.
£12000 is available under the Help With Food theme – but eight projects have bid for funding totalling over £32,000.
Applying for funding in this category are: YMCA (£5000), Projeckt 42 (£3760), Mustard Seed (£5000), Leith Primary Parent Council (£5000),Grow to Eat (£450), Hermitage Park Primary School (£3400), Crops In Pots (£5000) and Broughton Primary School Parent Council & partners (£4560).
The Supporting Vulnerable People theme attracted no fewer than 21 bids, but with only £32,000 funding available in this category many of the following applicants will sadly lose out:
Leith Makers Market (£4500), 154th NE Scouts (£500), Citadel (£4960), The Junction (£2625), Sikh Sanjog (£3000), Potter of Leith (£4000), Pilmeny Development Project (£5000), MultiCultural Family Base MCFB (£5000), Dr Bell’s Family Centre (£4000), Leith Community Cinema (£1460), YLT Records (£5000), DIY School (£4000), Building Bridges (£4450), Creative Electric (£5000), Leith Festival (£1420), Socks for the Street (£4000), Super Power Agency (£1250), Newhaven Community Garden (£4200), VOCAL (£4648), Pulse of the Place (£3750), PASDA (£4680).
There’s never quite enough money to satisfy demand, but are things different elsewhere? Innovation organisation Nesta’s Peter McColl will also give a brief talk about the one million Euro participatory budgeting event in Paris.
All welcome.
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