Welcome to your February Newsletter
Coorie-In again on Thursday 23rd February when the doors will open at 6.45 and events run from 7pm until 8.30. Come along and see what our partners have to offer you: everything from food tasting to pottery making, book binding, screen printing and learning about education and life in Victorian times.
There will be tea and coffee too! Come along and meet our partners and Trustees, not to mention other members of the community.
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We are delighted to announce that we are one of five organisations that have been awarded funding to develop Meeting Centres for people affected by dementia in Scotland.
The £10,000 award will go towards opening a social space and community support for people living with dementia, their families and unpaid carers.
Funds have been allocated through the Meeting Centres’ Seedcorn Fund, part of the partnership between the Scottish Government and Age Scotland’s About Dementia project.
Support is designed around attendees’ individual needs and activities are selected by members themselves based upon their interests, in order to help people affected by dementia adjust to the changes that often follow diagnosis and contribute to positive outcomes in the longer-term.
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Many of you already know that Heart of Newhaven is also a partner in Restoration Forth, a community-led project to restore seagrass meadows and native oysters in the Firth of Forth.
Led by WWF and sponsored by funders Aviva, Scottish Power Foundation, MoonDance Foundation and NatureScot, Heart of Newhaven is one of six project ‘hubs’ helping local people in Newhaven and nearby areas to get involved in the project. If you live locally and would like to know more about Restoration Forth please contact us on admin@heartofnewhaven.co.uk.
For more info see www.org.uk/scotland/restoration-forth or to see the map which is beginning to show the species as they come in click here:
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Edinburgh Community Climate Acton Network is uniting community groups across the city and inviting everyone to take part in the development of a Community Climate Hub.
The Network and Hub will be co-created by the people doing the work in their communities. This could involve, for example, knowledge-sharing and collaboration with other community groups, access to supporting organisations such as funders, policymakers and industry experts, support for administration and management, and collective lobbying.
On 16th February the Network will be holding the Winter Gathering in the Grassmarket, (86 Candlemaker Row) where new connections and partnerships will be forged, creating a map for a living city, and planning how a community network will support communities to make that future happen.
Everyone is welcome to attend the event, either as an individual, or from a community group.
Here is the link to the ECAN website, and the upcoming 16th February event
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A reminder – Warm & Welcoming began on Wednesday 1st February and the room will be open to all-comers every Wednesday and Saturday morning from now on, from 9am till 12 noon.
The first session saw a small but appreciative number of visitors who enjoyed their tea and coffee and reminiscing over some old photographs of Newhaven. Ace IT were on hand to help with computer and phone problems and there were toys, books and games available for all ages.
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We have a new user settling into the Heart.
Kissy is offering Maths and English tuition to school pupils of all ages and will be running after-school sessions in the Anchor building, Monday to Friday, 4-6pm.
If you’re interested, you can contact her on 07873682133.
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Finally, a couple of pleas. We’re still looking for any potential volunteers out there who have community fund-raising or event-organising experience.
Your help is needed to plan future events at the Heart. Please get in touch with admin@heartofnewhaven.co.uk or through the volunteering page on the website. Alternatively, contact any of the trustees.
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We’re also on the lookout for new trustees who would like to make a difference in their community. If you have legal, HR, marketing, fund-raising or secretarial experience, and live within our Area of Benefit, the Board would like to hear from you. Please get in touch.
Finally, we have been the recipients of some generous donations of old fishwives’ costumes and would love to be able to display them to their best advantage.
Does anyone have any old dressmakers’ dummies they no longer use, or perhaps a local business has some old shop window mannequins that are due for the scrapheap. Please consider donating them to us so that we can display our fine costumes. Contact christine.mcderment@heartofnewhaven.co.uk
Thank you.
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