It’s all happening in Muirhouse this weekend with a Shopping Centre event on Friday followed by the North Edinburgh Community Conference this Saturday!
All welcome – both events are FREE!
Residents of Port of Leith Housing Association’s Hermitage Court sheltered housing complex rolled back the years this week when they were treated to a play reading by Citadel Arts Group. Continue reading The best of times, the worst of times: Memories of Leith Docks
You are cordially invited to the 2016 Edinburgh Community Food annual general meeting. Continue reading A seat at the table: Edinburgh Community Food AGM
Three Edinburgh companies fail to pay Minimum Wage
More than 90 employers who have failed to pay their workers the National Minimum Wage have been named and shamed, Business Minister Nick Boles announced today. Three of those offenders are based in Edinburgh – a well-known hairdressing firm and two food outlets.
Continue reading Latest Minimum Wage cheats named and shamed
£eith Decides launches with marketplace event tomorrow
Leith Neighbourhood Partnership is asking the good folk of sunny Leith to decide how a fund of over £22,000 should be spent on projects that benefit the local community. Continue reading £eith Decides!
COMMUNITY CONFERENCE
Saturday 13 February
Craigroyston Community High School
North Edinburgh is facing tough times. Services are being cut, good jobs are hard to come by and some of our projects are struggling to survive.
But maybe it’s not all doom and gloom. Our community has some great resources, and chief among these is our people: the activists and the volunteers, young and old.
This important conference will discuss what our community needs – and work out how, together, we can get where we want to be.
We believe the people who know best are the people who live here. North Edinburgh needs YOUR ideas – come along and help us to map out a positive future for our community.
Lunch provided.
Free creche available but MUST be booked in advance.
For further information call Andy or Dave at CAN on 315 6405 or email communityactionnorth@gmail.com
A further education alumnus is blazing a trail in theatre photography with an exhibition of his work at the Creative Exchange in Leith. Continue reading From Stage to Still: exhibition now open at Creative Exchange
Chief Constable praises local residents who ‘make a difference’
Recently-appointed Chief Constable Phil Gormley said community is they key to tackling crime during a visit to Leith with Justice Secretary Michael Mathieson last week. The visit coincided with news that reported crime in the North Edinburgh area has dropped by almost a quarter, with over 1700 fewer crimes reported in the last nine months. Continue reading Community ‘the key’ to tackling crime

We still have places available for our Childcare Academy Information Sessions on:
Monday 8 February @ 10am
Wednesday 17 February @ 1.30pm
If you would like to book a place to come along and hear more about the Academy, ask any questions and take away an application pack, please do not hesitate to contact me on the number below or Barbara Webster on 311 6926.
Audrey O’Neill
Training Administrator, North Edinburgh Childcare
Tel: 311 6931
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