Day: October 3, 2019

Edinburgh’s Winter Festivals: The more you spend, the more you save, says Underbelly

Underbelly shares annual report on Edinburgh’s world-renowned Winter Festivals – Edinburgh’s Christmas and Edinburgh’s Hogmanay

  • Combined contract for Edinburgh’s Christmas and Edinburgh’s Hogmanay saves the city £1million per year.
  • 183,857 people attended Edinburgh’s Hogmanay and there was a 3% rise in total attenders from Edinburgh.
  • 2018 registered 929,219 unique visitors to Edinburgh’s Christmas
  • 28,000 tickets to Edinburgh’s Christmas given away to young people, community groups and charities in the city
  • Edinburgh’s Christmas raised £44,000 for charity
  • 99% of people rated Edinburgh’s Christmas very good or good.
  • Community benefit calculated as £1,176,000

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Thousands of children benefit from early years expansion

More than 46,000 children across Scotland are already benefiting from extra hours of high quality early learning and childcare almost a year before the full roll out of 1,140 funded hours of care for every eligible child. Continue reading Thousands of children benefit from early years expansion