Sing out with Fischy Music at local Primary Schools
Whatever age you are, singing with other people will help you feel more relaxed, confident and healthy – as well as being great fun! Continue reading Sing to make you feel good!
Category: North Edinburgh News
Local schools sign up for ParkSmart
Pupils and teachers across Edinburgh have joined a campaign to discourage inconsiderate parking at school gates. Granton, Flora Stevenson (above), Wardie and Ferryhill are among the local primary schools to sign up for the initiative.
Edinburgh businesses raise over £350,000 for children’s charity
Teams from Edinburgh organisations including EY, Larbert High School and University of Edinburgh Business School took on the heat of Dragons’ Glen, raising £16,026 in 2016/17 and supporting Children 1st, Scotland’s National Children’s Charity. Tthe competition has now raised £358,378 in five years. Continue reading Edinburgh businesses raise over £350,000 for children’s charity
Beltane Fire Festival events this weekend
Edinburgh’s most spectacular festival returns to Calton Hil this weekend. The Beltane Fire Festival will descend once more upon the centre of Edinburgh for a two days of drums, performance and fire. There’s a Beltane Open Day on Calton Hill this afternoon as a taster for Sunday evening’s spectacular event.
People Powered Community: help create the community you want to live in
MONDAY 1st MAY
10am – 1pm at NORTH EDINBURGH ARTS
All Welcome
North Edinburgh kids score with healthy eating message
Charity calls full time on Responsible Business Week with Food Fuel Football event
Business in the Community Scotland (BITC), the Prince’s Responsible Business Network is bringing Responsible Business Week to a close with an exciting healthy session for kids in Edinburgh with a focus on football. Continue reading North Edinburgh kids score with healthy eating message
A blast from the past
Yesterday saw Miles Tubb from the Living Memory Centre test the ladies with artefacts you would use when you went for a night out (writes James McGinty). This piece of equipment (above) was used to cure cellulite! Continue reading A blast from the past
Spring into action this morning!
Join the Big Spring Clean today!
granton:hub celebrates five year lease with Open Weekend
granton:hub, the creative and cultural group based in the heart of Granton, will open the doors of Madelvic House to the public this weekend – and celebrate the signing of a five-year, rent-free, lease agreement with the EDI Group for the ground floor of the historic building.
Established to create a thriving cultural centre to benefit both the local and wider community, granton:hub has been working closely with the EDI Group for a number of years to develop a proposal that would allow them to be permanently based at Madelvic House. The upcoming Open Weekend has been designed to mark this agreement, whilst giving a taster of the workshops, classes and events planned over not just the next few months, but coming years.
Visitors to the Open Weekend can try their hands at book binding with artist Cassandra Barron, help design a mosaic for granton:hub with Toni Dickson or take part in group-singing sessions with Creative Facilitator, Clare Watson. All this, along with many other activities and events, including planting in the new community garden and the history:hub exhibition, will take place over the two days, with free tea, coffee and cake available in the proposed new café.
Speaking ahead of the Open Weekend, Wendy Wager, Chair of the granton:hub Steering Group, said: “We’re really looking forward to welcoming everyone to Madelvic House this weekend to showcase what granton:hub has to offer. We’ve been working hard with various expert tutors to put together an exciting and diverse programme of activity, open to all ages and interests.
“The signing of this lease agreement with the EDI Group for Madelvic House is a major milestone for granton:hub. It will help us to build on our vision to create a vibrant community facility in Granton, one that local residents and those from the wider area can enjoy and be proud of.”
Following this Open Weekend, granton:hub will be launching its first full time programme, Madelvic:May, featuring a host of activities, workshops and community events – bringing together a wealth of expert tutors, whilst helping to establish Madelvic House as a centre for creative and cultural activity in Granton.
Denise Havard, Community Development Manager at The EDI Group, added: “It’s been great to partner with granton:hub on this exciting project, one that will bring significant and lasting benefits to the local community.
“The EDI Group is always looking for innovative and flexible ways to maximise use of our portfolio, including pop up events and meanwhile uses, ensuring that community development is a real tool for change alongside physical regeneration. The granton:hub’s ambitious proposals perfectly aligned themselves wiith this and I look forward to seeing them continue to grow and thrive, making great use of this important, historical building in the heart of Granton.”
Along with this programme of events, granton:hub has wider aspirations to create a new community garden in the grounds surrounding Madelvic House, and has already partnered with landscape architects HERE + NOW and the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh to create a Butterfly Garden, Coastal Grassland and establish a community growing project.
Beating the big boys: Castle Community Bank raises interest rates
Castle Community Bank, the Edinburgh-based not-for-profit financial institution, has raised its fixed term rates for savers. It now offers 1.65% for two years and 1.75% for three years for fixed term deposits of up to £15,000 – a much better rate than the big banks currently offer. Continue reading Beating the big boys: Castle Community Bank raises interest rates