The winners of the First Minister’s Reading Challenge 2018-19 have been announced at an event in Glasgow. Nineteen schools, one library and one book club were honoured at the celebration ceremony, where prizes were awarded by Ross MacKenzie, author of The Elsewhere Emporium (Floris). Continue reading Three Edinburgh pupils win National Reading Awards
Edinburgh College Development Trust has announced the appointment of a new trustee to support its mission to provide new opportunities for students of Edinburgh College. Continue reading Edinburgh College Development Trust appoints former student as new trustee
Edinburgh-based improvisation art collective, I.M.P ( in_my_presence) will hold a durational performance event (eh? – Ed.) at Cramond Beach on Saturday. Continue reading WATER walking and MILLS: improvisation art at Cramond
Join in this family friendly celebration of community food!
Festivities include tasty food with Fork in the Road bike trailer kitchen, music with Clari-Niteclass, garden workshops, a scrap store art activity, School of Ancient Crafts activities and a Granton history exhibition.
The number of apprentices benefitting from work-based learning has risen for the eighth consecutive year, according to the latest set of statistics. Continue reading More than 28,000 people started apprenticeships last year
This year’s ukactive Awards saw Edinburgh Leisure’s Drumbrae Leisure Centre win the prestigious Regional Club/Centre of the Year Scotland award.
Held on the 6th of June in Manchester, the awards included entries from over 50 different organisations from both inside and outside the leisure industry.
Drumbrae Leisure Centre was competing in a tough field, with other entrants from Sport Aberdeen and North Lanarkshire Ltd bidding for the top spot. Even making the final shortlist was a highly competitive process, involving a nomination form, a customer survey and a mystery visit.
Lynne Bauba, Manager at Drumbrae Leisure Centre said: “It goes without saying that all the staff at Drumbrae are overjoyed at having their efforts recognised on a national scale.
“The awards recognise great centres that customers love going to and staff love working at – great centres like Drumbrae. It just goes to show that you don’t need the biggest facility or the widest offer, so long as the venue meets the needs of the customers, local community and staff.”
The award ceremony was held as part of the Active Uprising event at Manchester Central and saw over 800 guests attend. There were 23 different awards categories in what turned out to be the largest ever ukactive Awards to date.
https://www.edinburghleisure.co.uk/venues/drumbrae-leisure-centre
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Legislation to introduce an opt-out system of organ and tissue donation for deceased donors has been passed by the Scottish Parliament. Continue reading Opt-out system for organ donation gets green light
Wednesdays 4.30 – 5.30
Congratulations to Craigroyston CYFC 2006 football team, who have just completed a League and Cup double in their very first season of eleven-a-side competition – some achievement! Continue reading Craigroyston 2006 at the double!
The introduction of Universal Credit has greatly increased rent arrears and a Scottish Parliament Committee has called for immediate action to tackle this issue. Continue reading Universal Credit responsible for increasing rent arrears, says Holyrood Committee
