Choose Youth Work is funding provided by the City of Edinburgh Council to support universal youth work. It has been agreed that wherever possible in localities, the Choose Youth Work funds will support the outcomes of YouthTalk. Continue reading Choose Youth Work funding update
Loan scheme to ease burden of owning a surgery Continue reading Funding boost for GP practices
ACTION MEETING
Tonight at The Prentice Centre, 6 – 8pm
All Welcome Continue reading North Edinburgh Save our Services: Action Meeting tonight
This is a reminder of the next Forth & Inverleith VSF:
Monday 18th Feb, 9.30-11.30
F34 at Royston Wardieburn Community Centre
We will be discussing the cuts to local projects, amounting to over £600,000. Continue reading Voluntary Sector Forum to focus on funding cuts
There’s still time to share your views on the City Council’s draft council change strategy and proposals for the 2019/20 budget. Continue reading Edinburgh’s budget: still time to have your say
Funding Cuts: When all else fails, order a report … or two
Campaigners representing local community organisations affected by impending cuts to Health and Social Care grants put their case for continued funding to the North West Localities Committee last week.
The projects were told that the Locality Committee is in no position to restore lost funding, however, and councillors committed only to call for reports into the EIJB’s grant funding process.
In particular, officers were tasked to look at activity (or lack of it) to support projects affected by discontinued funding since the decision was made in December. The reports will also analyse the funding spend to determine whether or not North West has been impacted more severely than other localities.
While it’s important that lessons are learned for the future, this action won’t help those projects who need support NOW, though: the Localities committee doesn’t meet again until 28th March – by which time projects will have had to issue redundancy notices to staff and, in some cases, look at closing projects down. Continue reading “You might as well build an abbattoir at the top of Pennywell Road: we’re being put to the sword”
Tonight’s Drylaw Telford Community Council meeting has been cancelled as all Inverleith councillors will be attending another meeting – North West Locality Committee is meeting tonight at 6.30pm in the Dean of Guilds Room at the City Chambers.
Two local activists representing Save Our Services North Edinburgh will be speaking about the impact of the Health and Social Care cuts in a deputation to the Localities Committee.
The meeting is open to the public: go along and support local services if you can!
The next Community Campaign Meeting will take place tomorrow – Monday 28th January 2019 at the Prentice Centre, from 6pm. Continue reading Save our Services campaign meeting tomorrow
A topping out ceremony has been held to mark a key milestone in the construction of the new £40m Queensferry High School.
£20,000 has been allocated to the North West Locality for the promotion of local cultural and artistic events to take place in 2019. Continue reading Locality funding opportunity for community groups
