The City of Edinburgh Council has appointed an independent chair to lead the Edinburgh Poverty Commission, which will shine a light on and recommend ways to address poverty in the Capital. Continue reading Leading poverty expert to head Edinburgh Commission
Communities will benefit from a share of £1.75 million to increase the numbers of people involved in making decisions about investment in their local areas. Continue reading Community Choices Fund: More people to have their say on how money is spent in their neighbourhoods
Wednesday 3rd October, 12.30 – 4pm
Easter Road Stadium
I am delighted to let you know that we have two upcoming training sessions available for free through the Edinburgh Shoreline project. Places are limited so please book by following the links to our Eventbrite page.
Reminiscence and Recording skills
15th October, 10am-12.30pm
The Living Memory Association, Ocean Terminal, Leith
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/reminiscence-and-recording-skills-training-tickets-49806917832
This event is aimed at training shoreline communities in how to record oral history interviews to capture the heritage of their area.
Website editing skills
1st November, 11am-12.30pm
The Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, 20A Inverleith Row
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/website-editing-skills-tickets-50125965111
This event is aimed at training shoreline communities in how to add their own updates and events to the www.edinburghshoreline.org.uk and will also provide general skills on maintaining all WordPress websites.
Charlotte Johnson, Shoreline Project Manager
The Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh
20a Inverleith Row| Edinburgh | EH3 5LR
0131 552 7171 ext. 3035
Edinburgh charity Gorgie City Farm has been awarded a £44,853 grant from the Scottish Children’s Lottery. Continue reading Gorgie City Farm receives £45,000 from Scottish Children’s Lottery
Looking for something to do with the kids this Friday? Multicultural Women’s Group, Edinburgh are holding a Bilingual/Multilingual storytelling session at granton:hub.
They will be exploring the story ‘we are going on a bear hunt’ via an engaging and interactive storytelling session. These stories will be told in Arabic, English and possibly in a few more languages. It’s great fun for the children and adults alike. Pop by if you are around!
Hot coffees/ teas and biscuits are provided. Donations welcome. Continue reading Free storytelling event at Granton:Hub this Friday
Ambitious targets to reduce child poverty will stall, warns charity
In its state of the nation report, Poverty in Scotland 2018 (below), the independent Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) warns one in four (230,000) children in Scotland live in poverty. The report comes as Challenge Poverty? Aye we can! gets underway, a campaign by the Poverty Alliance which shows how poverty in Scotland can be solved and allow everyone to take part in society. Continue reading One in four Scottish children live in poverty as parents locked out of job market
Save Leith Walk has submitted 15,850 objections to Drum Property’s
plan to demolish 106-154 Leith Walk, to destroy the independent
businesses using the building and to build an over-tall and
dominating student residence in its place. All these objections
were gathered voluntarily and everyone given an opportunity to make
their own personal views clear.
Drum Property Group has revealed high levels of public support for its planning application which is set to transform Stead’s Place, near the foot of Leith Walk. More than 2,000 letters of support for Drum’s development proposals have been lodged with the City of Edinburgh Council, in advance of the committee hearing later this year. Continue reading Support for Drum’s Leith Walk plans
Last week, environmental protesters have hit the headlines for posting their empty crisp packets back to the UK’s largest crisp makers, Walkers – but ready salted snacks aren’t the only offenders. Continue reading Should we be sending dirty nappies in the post instead of crisp packets?
