Category: Muirhouse

Apple Wassail marks end of winter at North Edinburgh Arts

Friday 3 February: 2.30 – 4pm

The garden, North Edinbugh Arts

APPLE WASSAIL!

Join us at the NEA garden for traditional end of winter festivities 

Traditionally at this time of year, people’s thoughts turn to the end of winter and the coming of spring. We’ll be doing our bit to encourage a good harvest year in the North Edinburgh Arts garden by holding our annual apple wassail on

Friday 3rd Feb, 2,30 -4.00pm.

We’ll have wassailing songs led by the Timebank Temptations, mulled apple juice and other refreshments and of course, the wassail parade around the garden to scare off evil spirits and encourage a good fruit harvest for the coming year.

For more information, call 0131 315 2151, e-mail garden@northedinburgharts.co.uk or drop into our centre.

See you there!

Valla

Public Social Partnership events

Edinburgh Wellbeing public social partnership (psp)

“Talk, Share, Plan, Repeat” Coproduction Events

Public Social Partnerships (PSPs) are about people working together to design what services and supports are needed to meet the need of people who have mental ill health, or mental health difficulties, and then building partnerships to deliver the services and supports. There will be two city wide events, the first to capture the main themes and the second to capture work across the city and to begin to make these links. The locality events will be focused more around understanding the needs of that particular community,  opening up local dialogue, and building relationships for future partnership working.

To registers for one/or more events or general enquiries please email: EdinburghPSP@nhslothian.scot.nhs.uk

  • Locality – North West: 1st Feb, 11 – 2:30, Muirhouse Library
  • City Wide: 8th Feb, 11 – 2:30, tbc
  • Locality – North West: 22nd Feb, 11 – 2:30, Muirhouse Library

Training session: Overcoming language barriers

Overcoming Language Barriers for  Frontline/Reception Staff  –

Training Opportunity for Workers in North Edinburgh

10am – 12pm, Thurs 26th Jan 2017, Muirhouse Library, Pennywell Road

Learn about:

  • Practical ways to remove language barriers in your organization.
  • Race equality in Scotland
  • Some of the current challenges for BME communities.

The trainer will be Eleanor McKnight from Elite Linguist CIC. Living in Harmony and Muirhouse Library are organizing the training.  Book your free place by contacting Adam Farquhar on 0131 551 1671 or emailing

livinginharmony@pchp.org.uk

Food for Thought at Millennium Centre

Earlier this week Muirhouse Millennium Community Centre played host to a Food for Thought Forum for the community led by Pilton Health Project, with Memes Molina (Food Development Worker at PCHP, above) leading the proceedings by explaining the previous forums: what they had discussed and what had been gained from the experiences (writes James McGinty). 

Anita Aggarwa(PCHP Community Development Manager) then laid out the processes of the day.

A very well attended audience were treated to home made soup and some superbly healthy sandwiches, tea and coffee provided by centre volunteers and our manager Peter Airlie.

For more information on PHP please click HERE 

 

Pictures by JAMES McGINTY

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As one door closes ….

Baba’s Cave closes down – FetLor open day

Baba’s Cave, the store that seemed to stock almost everything, opens for the last time today in Muirhouse Shopping Centre.

The store, which was crammed with everything from air fresheners, buttons and batteries to washing powder, yarn and zebras (okay, maybe no zebras!) closes this afternoon. The boys from Baba’s insist they will be back as part of the area’s ongoing regeneration, but in the meantime everything must go and it’s bye, bye Baba’s!

FET-LOR OPEN DAY

It’s not all doom and gloom, however – FetLor Youth Club is throwing open it’s doors to the community this afternoon from 1 – 3pm. Call in and see the fantastic new facilities. Fun for all the family!

 

Witness appeal following Muirhouse hit and run

Police in Edinburgh are appealing for witnesses following a hit and run collision in Muirhouse. The incident happened at around 10:10pm on Thursday (December 29th) on Muirhouse Green at its junction with Ferry Road. Continue reading Witness appeal following Muirhouse hit and run