Category: Muirhouse

Breaking the Silence: Tamas Jeles Project at Muirhouse Millennium Centre

This is a mens mental health group in honour of my late fiancé who killed himself leaving behind newborn twin daughters and a son.  Please get the word out: the silence needs to be broken – Lou Hamilton

Monday 15th July from 7 – 9pm at Muirhouse Millennium Centre

Today’s Festival Fun Day is fully booked

Today’s Festival Fun Day is FULLY BOOKED but we still have places on our creative morning sessions, garden drop-ins, youth film clubs and family-friendly events taking place later in the month and in August.

Some sessions/events have limited spaces, so please book in advance to avoid disappointment!

Civil Service Strollers offers free season tickets to local Primary School kids

Civil Service Strollers have launched a new initiative that will see the club giving a FREE season ticket to every primary school pupil in north Edinburgh. 
Adults attending matches with the children will get in for half price – just £3.00.

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Festival Fun Day at North Edinburgh Arts

Monday 8th July at North Edinburgh Arts 11am – 3pm

FESTIVAL FUN DAY
with Edinburgh Art Festival and Licketyspit Theatre Company

We’re celebrating the start of our summer programme, and we hope you can join us for a day of street performers, garden and arts activities for all ages and a family-friendly BBQ!

What you can expect:

lots of fun
creative workshops
street performances
garden activities
pizza making
some lovely food
family-friendly atmosphere
a taste of what’s on offer at NEA this summer (8 July – 8 August)

Cost and booking: This event is free but please pick up your ticket from the NEA reception in advance to avoid disappointment on the day.

For more details, please email admin@northedinburgharts.co.uk

or call 0131 315 2151

Weird and wonderful street science in Muirhouse

Spectacular street science entertained children in North Edinburgh yesterday. 

Busking Bikes
Edinburgh Science Festival ‘Busking Bikes’ were in the area entertaining children from four local primary schools as well as having a public show in the new ‘town centre’ by Muirhouse Library.

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Fresh Start Community Picnic at North Edinburgh Arts

Fresh Start Community Picnic

Thursday 11th July from 4 – 7pm

at North Edinburgh Arts

Working with partners across Edinburgh and with volunteer teams, Fresh Start support people previously homeless to ‘make a home’ for themselves in new tenancies. We enable them to resettle in their community, providing volunteering opportunities that offer practical and emotional support, helping them develop life skills, and involving church members and the wider community in our work to end homelessness.

We achieve this by providing essential household goods and decorating services to help people set up home. We also help those who are unemployed gain skills, experience and qualifications that will increase their employability – including gardening, cooking and employability training.

In addition to the practical support we provide, Fresh Start service-users have identified the need for support to help them feel at home in their new community as well as in their new tenancy. They highlighted the advantages that would come from being able to get to know local people, to develop skills and be able to access services and opportunities in a neighbourhood location and be able to get involved in community activities including  in evenings and at weekends.

Fresh Start has been based in North Edinburgh for 20 years and we now have the opportunity to take over some currently unused adjacent premises to create a community hub.

Working with other community organisations, we have been looking at ways in which we can bring this space back into community use. We want to create a hub that will work for the whole community ensuring that people new to the area have access to a space where they can meet with local people, develop skills and make a contribution to the community.

To make sure that this becomes a place where people can feel part of, and connected to, their local community we want to know what you would like to see happening in the Hub.

We would appreciate it if you would complete the questionnaire below.  This should take no more than 10 minutes.
All answers are confidential. If you want more information or additional copies of the survey, please contact Wilma at Community Enterprise – Tel: 01506 862227.
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