Author: davepickering

Edinburgh reporter and photographer

FREE theatre tickets offer for serving and ex-serving military personnel

Q productions are offering FREE theatre tickets to serving and ex-serving military personnel for Jonathan Lewis’s critically-acclaimed hilarious and heart-breaking military play Our Boys at Edinburgh Festival Fringe from 3 – 6 August at 20:30, at PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court (venue 277), just off the Royal Mile.   Continue reading FREE theatre tickets offer for serving and ex-serving military personnel

Still time to book your place at Granton Marina meeting

Due to greater public interest over Marina presentation at our next 30th July meeting, we moved into a bigger venue to accommodate increased number of people (writes MIZAN RAHMAN). 

Therefore, our next public meeting will be held at:

Granton Parish Church

55 Boswall Parkway

Edinburgh  

EH5 2DA

Please accept our apology for any inconvenience due to change of the venue.

Please find the agenda and minute of the last meeting.

Kind regards

Mizan Rahman

Secretary, Granton and District Community Council

E-mail: secretary@grantoncc.scot | Tel: 07930 183352 | www.grantoncc.scot

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Democracy Matters: sign up for discussion event

Working together, Community Development Alliance Scotland, The Scottish Community Development Centre and the Poverty Alliance invite you to discuss the next phase of the Local Governance Review and  share your ideas about how local democracy could change.

Join us for the morning, chat to us over lunch and learn how you can help others have their voice and make a difference.

  • The Studio, 67 Hope Street , Glasgow
  • 10 am til 2pm
  • 9th August 2018

Register here >> 

Democracy Matters

The Scottish Government has launched the next phase of its Local Governance Review, inviting people to join a conversation called ‘Democracy Matters’.

The campaign asks five key questions about how decisions should be made at a more local level. It asks whether communities, of place or identity, should have more control of decisions and what those might be. It also asks how this should look and what new or existing decision-making processes could be used.

The Local Governance Review was launched earlier in the year aims to find out what changes are needed to encourage a more local, participatory and inclusive democracy in Scotland.

A short animation summaries the review and the five questions being asked:

“In modern Scotland power must work in a way that involves and benefits everyone. To get this right, we will review how responsibilities and resources can be shared across national and local government in a way that delivers the greatest benefit to Scotland’s different places. However, the starting point must be with our citizens and the power and potential within our communities themselves.”

The review encourages people to hold conversations in their communities to discuss Democracy Matters and includes a community engagement fund where groups can apply for £100 – £300 to help make conversations happen. They have also published guidance about how the discussion might work and how it could be facilitated.

The review of local governance was set out in the Scottish Government’s 2017-18 programme for government and will be part of the forthcoming Local Democracy Bill

You can download the report and view more information on the Scottish Government website here.

Register for the event here >>

Scottish Youth Theatre National Ensemble 2018’s VENT. at North Edinburgh Arts this Saturday

VENT. is the latest production from Scottish Youth Theatre’s prestigious National Ensemble – a company of emerging theatre makers aged 16 – 25 selected from across Scotland for their exceptional theatre making ability. Continue reading Scottish Youth Theatre National Ensemble 2018’s VENT. at North Edinburgh Arts this Saturday