Local community organisation CORE’s themed World Cafe events in North Edinburgh Arts Centre have proved very popular since they were established nearly two years ago. This month’s World Cafe celebrates the Mardi Gras festival and takes place on Friday 24 February from 5.30-7.30pm.
Foods from all over the world are on offer this month, with seasonal traditional pancakes as dessert. As always, World Cafe provides a friendly, family atmosphere to bring local people together so pop down for some tasty food, fun and friendship and celebrate in true carnival style!
The price is £5 (adults) or £2.50 (kids) and it promises to be a busy night, so to reserve your table call 467 7990 or email administrator@coregb.org.uk
Local community organisation CORE’s themed World Cafe events in North Edinburgh Arts Centre have proved very popular since they were established nearly two years ago. This month’s World Cafe celebrates the Mardi Gras festival and takes place on Friday 24 February from 5.30-7.30pm.
Foods from all over the world are on offer this month, with seasonal traditional pancakes as dessert. As always, World Cafe provides a friendly, family atmosphere to bring local people together so pop down for some tasty food, fun and friendship and celebrate in true carnival style!
The price is £5 (adults) or £2.50 (kids) and it promises to be a busy night, so to reserve your table call 467 7990 or email administrator@coregb.org.uk
It’s nearly a year since it last appeared, but the NEN’s back at last and is now being delivered across North Edinburgh. We’re sure you’ll agree that that’s good news, and there’s more … the NEN Board is hosting an informal reception to celebrate the NEN’s relaunch – and you’re all invited!
The event takes place tomorrow (Thursday) from 5pm in The Doo’cot on Ferry Road. The celebration offers an opportunity to discuss the new paper with Board members, hear plans for the future and to find out how you can help support your NEN.
It’s great to report good news – and everybody loves a celebration – so come and join us tomorrow evening!
For further information contact NEN Chair Martin Hinds, email mhinds@blueyonder.co.uk or the NEN on northedinnews@gmail.com
What is your favourite creative activity? What creative skills do you wish you had? What would your ideal community garden look like? North Edinburgh Arts wants to know what you think about the state of the arts in Muirhouse and beyond.
This Saturday, 18th February, North Edinburgh Arts will host its first annual ‘Have Your Say’ day, an event chock-full of fun, creative activities for the whole family, and a fantastic platform for you to tell NEA what is important to you.
Activities will run from 10am – 2pm, and will include drama with Lyceum Youth Theatre and North Edinburgh Theatre group, DIY Muirhouse with Community Renewal, dance with Charan Pradhan, creative play for under 5s, and take your own portrait. There will also be graffiti walls, breakdance displays, drop in arts and crafts and the opportunity to speak to Big Brother in our own Diary Room – a full programme of activities will be available to pick up on the day.
Kate Wimpress, Director of North Edinburgh Arts, said: “The ‘Have Your Say’ Day will do exactly what it says on the tin. NEA is a great asset for Muirhouse and for North Edinburgh, and it is vital that we, as an organisation, know how to make the most of this fantastic resource for the many people who already use it, and for those who will use it in future”.
So why not go along and see what North Edinburgh Arts has to offer, grab a bite to eat at the café and chat about how to make the arts thrive where you live?
Local young people have been heavily involved in the planning of the next meeting of Inverleith Neighbourhood Partnership. The meeting, which will held on Friday 2nd March at Broughton High School from 1.30 to 3.30pm, will offer an opportunity to see some of the young talent on display and also to view a selection of artwork created by local older people.
INP development officer Elaine Lennon explained: “We are holding an afternoon event to try to attract a wider range of people, and are holding this meeting in the local High School to showcase the talents and to highlight the issues of local young people. We will also be displaying a selection of artwork by local older people, so we hope that you can join us. Please contact me if you would like more information and feel free to pass this on to anyone you think may be interested”.
Elaine can be contacted at North Local Office on 529 5270, email elaine.lennon@edinburgh.gov.uk
During a recent Firesmart school visit to Granton Primary School, members of Lothian & Border Fire and Rescue Service education team were delighted when a P5 pupil handed them a poem. The wee girl had written it in her own time based on what she had learned from a fire safety lesson the previous day on the causes and knowledge of fire, and the team are so impressed with Rachel’s poem that they’ve posted it on-line!
Rachel’s poem reads:
Listen now, this is no joke,
Before a fire there’s always smoke,
If you smell it, go outside,
Never find a place to hide,
Stay down low and crawl away,
Fire engines are on the way.
Rachel’s certainly remembered her Firesmart lessons, and the local Fire Service is convinced Granton has a young Bard in the making too!
During a recent Firesmart school visit to Granton Primary School, members of Lothian & Border Fire and Rescue Service education team were delighted when a P5 pupil handed them a poem. The wee girl had written it in her own time based on what she had learned from a fire safety lesson the previous day on the causes and knowledge of fire, and the team are so impressed with Rachel’s poem that they’ve posted it on-line!
Rachel’s poem reads:
Listen now, this is no joke,
Before a fire there’s always smoke,
If you smell it, go outside,
Never find a place to hide,
Stay down low and crawl away,
Fire engines are on the way.
Rachel’s certainly remembered her Firesmart lessons, and the local Fire Service is convinced Granton has a young Bard in the making too!
West Pilton gardeners get to workWe have started the new community garden with our first day’s planting. Ten fruit trees and lots o’ keen helpers made it a warm day in January! It is a good beginning and we are planning our next bit of planting with a strong wee group of local people. Look at our website to find out how to get in touch or just come along to our next event.
City planners are appealing to Muirhouse and Pennywell residents to have their say on the area’s ongoing regeneration. A public exhibition drop-in session was held last Thursday evening in Craigroyston High School, where members of the masterplanning team were available to speak to residents about the latest plans for the area’s redevelopment.
For those who missed that opportunity, however, there’s still time to have a look at the plans and to make your opinions known – the exhibition will be on display in North Edinburgh Arts Centre in Pennywell Court until Friday 17 February.
Michelle Fraser, Senior Project Manager with the city council’s Housing and Regeneration team, said: “Towards the end of 2011 two masterplan options were prepared for the local community to see and comment on. Consultation events were held in November and December – thank-you if you have contributed to the process so far. Many of the issues raised have now been taken on board by the masterplanning team and this has resulted in key amendments to the preferred Indicative Masterplan Framework. A newsletter that went out out to the community to invite them to the events has a section that can be filled in and dropped off locally. Please make use of this or email any comments that you have to me and I will make sure that these are incorporated within the overall feedback from the consultation events.”
Comments can be emailed to michelle.fraser@edinburgh.gov.uk
Edinburgh’s latest business hub was launched in Stockbridge Library in Hamilton Place last night. The new facility was officially opened by entrepreneur Sir Tom Farmer and it’s hoped that the hub will prove every bit as successful as it’s predecessor at McDonald Road library.
The hub will provide free training and advice to existing local businesses and new starts. A range of courses delivered by professional tutors will cover topics ranging from the principles of how to finance and market your business to classes on how to master social media and develop a competitive edge.
This is the first roll out of the groundbreaking business hub at McDonald Road Library on Leith Walk which has held 68 Business Gatewaycourses with 768 attendees since its opening in May 2010.
This work is part of the Council’s commitment to ‘Building Stronger Town Centres’ through the Economic Development team’s three dedicated Town-Centre Coordinators who work on a variety of projects across the city.
Councillor Tom Buchanan, Economic Development Convenor, said: “In these tough economic times, it is important that we as a Council do as much as we can to support local businesses. Giving them the opportunity to enhance their business skills can only help them develop stronger foundations and therefore a more secure future.”
He went on: “The overwhelming success of the first business hub at McDonald Road Library has demonstrated the high demand for these types of workshops and I hope that we will eventually be able to roll out hubs across the rest of Edinburgh.”
Sir Tom Farmer CVO CBE KCSG DL, said: “I am delighted to be opening the second of Edinburgh’s dedicated business hubs. It can often be very difficult for small businesses to get off the ground and it is centres like these that can help give people in the area the opportunity to come to discuss their various issues and the opportunities that arise. This centre will give businesses a good foundation for success, by not only learning the basics of business but also how to market themselves properly.”
The first nine free weekly workshops at the Stockbridge Business Hub consist of four dedicated to business growth and five dedicated to those wanting to start-up their own business. Full programme information, including booking details, can be found on the Business Gateway website.
One Leith business, GM Cleaning, was started after owner Grant MacCusker attended a Business Gateway seminar four years ago. Now the successful entrepreneur holds talks of his own at the Leith Business Hub in MacDonald Road Library and believes the workshops are proving really popular amongst the local business community.
He said: “Business gateway was a great help in the starting and growing stages of my business. I find it rewarding talking to new and established entrepreneurs, passing on my knowledge and valuable information. With business gateway opening up more hubs and running more workshops it can only be an upwards climb for Scotland and our entrepreneurs coming through.”
