Category: Granton

Whaling Days: tenant shares memories of Leith’s bygone industry

A Port of Leith Housing Association (PoLHA) sheltered housing tenant has shared memories of her father working as a whaler in a book about this long-lost industry. Continue reading Whaling Days: tenant shares memories of Leith’s bygone industry

Boswall Parkway: Re-Imagine Your Street

BIODIVERSITY WORKSHOPS

Thursday 1st February

3pm – 5.30pm or 6pm – 8:30pm

Granton United Church, Boswall Parkway

The Workshop will ask:

  • How might Boswall Parkway look in the future?
  • what challenges and opportunities might there be?

Funded by Adaptation Scotland, the Royal Botanic Gardens Edinburgh is running this pilot project to consult with communities about solutions to climate change and adaptation.

Following an open application process, the Re-Imagining Your Gardens & Streets project was chosen to be our latest Community Engagement Pioneer Project. Jointly ran by the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh and Heriot-Watt University, the project will investigate a range of community engagement techniques by running outreach events focused on generating ideas to transform streets in the Granton area into well adapted community spaces.

The design of streets and gardens can significantly influence an areas resilience to climate impacts, with large amounts of paved areas contributing to surface water flooding, reduced biodiversity and urban heat island effect. These spaces are also literally on our doorsteps, and represent a tangible and immediate route in to talking to communities about wider adaptation themes.

However, community improvements are best driven by community aspiration, so this project will focus on first introducing the broad concept of creating well adapted streets and gardens, and then facilitate a community conversation to find the ideal interpretation for this unique area.

We will be working with the creative practitioners from the Museum of Future Now to help community members imagine this aspiration future and the ideas they come up with will be turned into illustrations for display in the community hub.

Alongside this, a neighbourhood adaptation planning tool will be created to help other areas explore the possible routes to creating well adapted gardens and streets. This work will compliment other initiatives ongoing in the city, including Edinburgh Living Landscape and Edinburgh Adapts.

There’s still time to book your workshop place: contact Leone on 0791 873 6481 or email lalexander@rgbe.org.uk

 

 

Social Bite’s Josh Littlejohn to address local community council

Josh Littlejohn MBE, founder of Social Bite and the man behind the homeless village on the Granton waterfront, will be guest speaker at West Pilton & West Granton Community Council next week.

The meeting takes place on Tuesday 6 February at 7pm in West Pilton Neighbourhood Centre. All welcome.

News from Granton Community Gardeners

Dear All,

Happy New Year!

Bit stormy and there’s snow, so there’s not so much gardening going on at the moment, though drop-ins are still on every Tuesday and Saturday when the weather is reasonable (dry and not frozen or blowing a gale!)

You’re all invited to our Burns Night Community Ceilidh!  This has become a very popular regular annual event and this will be the 5th year.

BURNS NIGHT COMMUNITY CEILIDH

SATURDAY 3rd FEBRUARY. 5-9pm

ROYSTON WARDIEBURN COMMUNITY CENTRE

LIVE CEILIDH BAND AND OTHER PERFORMANCES FROM TALENTED LOCALS!

TICKETS £2. in advance only. (Volunteers, performers and under 5’s FREE) -tickets on sale from community centre reception.

Includes Food: Haggis Needs and Tatties (halal and veggie options available)

BYOB

We’ll need quite a few helpers at the event, especially in the teams setting up and decorating (it’s a big sports hall), and clearing everything up at the end.  Please give us a shout if you’d be up for helping!

Also if you’d like to perform a song/dance/poem/etc.  we have a few spaces available, either for traditional Scottish or other cultural performances. We know Granton has a lot of talent!   Let us know if so …

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You’re also invited to our regular:

COMMUNITY MEALS

EVERY TUESDAY 5-7pm

GRANTON PARISH CHURCH HALL

(55 Boswall Parkway -entrance through gate on Wardierburn St East)

FREE -though help with washing up or donations are always welcome

ALL AGES WELCOME! (children with responsible adult)

We’ve been getting lots of good feedback on the food (thanks to our chef Jayne!) and it’s great to have somewhere warm to eat together.  We also make extra meals that can be taken away at the end for family/friends/neighbours, especially if you know someone who’d particularly appreciate it.

Hope you’re all well,

Tom

Homes for Everyone: Solidarity protest with homeless people

END THE HORROR of SLUM HOMELESS HOSTELS IN EDINBURGH
Wednesday 17 January 10am – 11.30am
Abbots House 10 Links Place EH6 7EZ Continue reading Homes for Everyone: Solidarity protest with homeless people

Forth Neighbourhood Partnership meets on Thursday

Forth Neighbourhood Partnership will meet on Thursday 18th January from 6 – 8pm at North West Locality Office in West Pilton Gardens. 

Items on the agenda include information on walking and cycling improvements on Lower Granton Road, an introduction to the new Health and Social Care Manager, updates on the North West Locality Improvement Plan and the latest Community Grants Fund allocations. There’s also an opportunity to raise issues with your local councillors during the Question Time session.

All welcome.

See below for full set of meeting papers:

FNP 180118 Full papers final