TAI CHI
Ten week introductory Course starts today
Thursday 23 April 10am – 12noon
at Drylaw Neighbourhood Centre
FREE OF CHARGE
Contact 0131 315 4989 to reserve your place!
Category: Drylaw Telford
May 4 meeting for EDRA
The next meeting of Easter Drylaw Residents Association (EDRA) will take place on Monday 4 May from 7-9pm at Drylaw Parish Church, Groathill Road North.
Council Tenants, Home Owners & Private Let Tenants currently living in the area are all welcome to attend.
Topics for discussion include street lighting, dog fouling, vandalism and crime.
Happy birthday, Roberta!
A very Happy Birthday to Royston Wardieburn stalwart Roberta Blaikie, who celebrates her 70th birthday today.
Roberta has been at the heart of community activities across North Edinburgh for many years and friends, family and colleagues from over the years joined Roberta for a surprise party at a packed Royston Wardieburn Community Centre on Sunday.
Last call: register to vote!
Deadline for registration is MIDNIGHT TONIGHT
Alex Robertson, Director of Communications at the Electoral Commission, said: “If you aren’t registered by 20 April then you simply won’t be able to vote on 7 May so do it now at www.gov.uk/registertovote. It takes just a few minutes and is far easier than the old, paper based process. There’s been a great response so far and we don’t want anyone to miss out on having their say on polling day.”
The Electoral Commission said recent applications included almost 470,000 online applications from 16 to 24-year-olds but added that its research also suggested there may be as many as 7.5 million unregistered voters.
The deadline to register to vote is midnight on Monday 20 April. Register now at www.gov.uk/register-to-vote
Other important dates:
The deadline for receiving new postal vote and postal proxy applications is 5pm on Tuesday 21 April 2015 and the deadline for proxy vote applications is 5pm on Tuesday 28 April 2015.
Use it ot lose it – adult education classes resume at Craigroyston
Craigroyston Classes poster April 2015
Our adult education classes at Craigroyston Community High School start back from 27 April and if we do not have enough numbers, the council will cancel classes, so please do encourage people to sign up -use it or lose it!
Also some Lone Parent Scotland cookery classes ongoing at the moment :
Cookery class at Craigroyston Community High School
67 Pennywell Road, Edinburgh EH4 4NL
Run by Lone Parent Scotland
Wednesday 15 April 10am-12.30pm
Making healthy burgers and coleslaw (ingredients all provided) for vegetarians and beef burgers
Thursday 16 April 10am -12.30pm
Making chocolate birthday cake (ingredients all provided)
All lone parents welcome with their children
Fiona Henderson
All together now
‘Inspirational’ new course coming to North Edinburgh
Big changes are happening in Scotland about how families who need support are offered it. This is called Self Directed Support. The idea is that families and communities can have more say and control over the types of support they are offered.
Total Craigroyston and Muirhouse Link Up are working with Diversity Matters to run ‘Everyone Together’, a course for everyone involved with children and families in Pilton and Muirhouse – social workers, community workers, support workers, people who need support, families, friends, neighbours, local community leaders and others.
We know that there is a huge variety of skills amongst us: families, communities and workers. By sharing skills and working together we can help families live well. Come and find out how the new changes can help us do things better.
The course will run from 9.30am to 2pm in
North Edinburgh Arts Centre on the following dates:
Wednesday 29 April – Building the right kind of relationships
Wednesday 6 May – What do we need? Identifying local services
Wednesday 13 May – Creating local networks to help us work together.
Interested? Contact Tracey Devenney at Total Craigroyston for more info and to book a place:call 529 5073 or email tracey.devenney@edinburgh.gov.uk
Everyone Together has been developed by Diversity Matters and is funded by the Scottish Government to help develop the use of Self Directed Support.
We have run 12 events in the last year in different parts of Scotland – read more at everyone-together.org
Blackhall talk on Mary Seacole
Blackhall Library, in partnership with Surgeons Hall, is hosting a talk about Mary Seacole on Wednesday 15 April at 3pm. The event is free.
Click on link (below) for more info about this remarkable woman:
www.bbc.co.uk/history/
Drylaw Skatepark: final consultation event
Last chance to have your say on Drylaw Skatepark
Drylaw Community Association and Edinburgh and Lothian Greenspace Trust will be holding a final consultation event on the new skatepark this Wednesday (15 April) from 5.30 – 6.30pm in Drylaw Neighbourhood Centre.
Go along, have a look at what’s being planned and have your say – the organisers are particularly keen to hear the views of young people.
North Edinburgh Arts AGM next week
NORTH EDINBURGH ARTS
Annual General Meeting
To be held at North Edinburgh Arts, 15a Pennywell Court
Wednesday 22 April at 12 noon
Soup and sandwiches will be served at 12.30
Creche available on request
Come and hear about the work of NEA and plans for the next three years, followed by the opportunity to put your ideas forward.
To RSVP and reserve a creche space call Sandra on 315 2151 or email admin@northedinburgharts.co.uk by Wednesday 15 April.
Live Well in Later Life
Drop-in event for older people at Broughton High School next week
Come along to our free drop-in event between
11am -3pm on Thursday 16 April
at Broughton High School, East Fettes Avenue.
Tea, coffee and cake will be served.
Free transport is available if booked in advance.
Call 0131 529 6552 or email rachel.howe@edinburgh.gov.uk