Green Teas tour with the Centipede today!

Green Tease: Creative Solutions to Temporary Sites

Date/time: 30^th August, 16:00 – 18:00

Venue: North Edinburgh Arts, 15a Pennywell Court, Edinburgh EH4 4TZ

Centipede Project, based in North Edinburgh, are offering a guided tour of and discussion about their three public spaces in Muirhouse all within a 1 km of each other, developed in collaboration with local residents, businesses and schools, and latterly in partnership with City of Edinburgh Council.

These brownfield interventions include a huge grass labyrinth, a natural play area, and a former low rise housing block site now under development into a wildflower meadow, and natural play area. We will also include their most recent construction, a 25m rammed-earth Amphitheatre and stage. During the session we’ll learn about the different values that creative practices can bring to sustainable brownfield sites and public space developments.

This event will appeal to those working in areas including: urban planning and regeneration, green and brownfield space development, community development, landscape architecture, urban playground development, creative practices. It is run as part of our Green Tease Open Call Fund.

Find out more and register here: http://www. creativecarbonscotland.com/ event/green-tease-creative- solutions-temporary-sites-2/

Joanne McArthur
Project Coordinator
0131 315 2151

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Forth Neighbourhood Partnership meets on Wednesday

Forth Neighbourhood Partnership Public Meeting is on Wednesday 31 August at 7pm in The Church Hall, Granton Baptist Church, 99 Crewe Road North. Please see below for further details: Continue reading Forth Neighbourhood Partnership meets on Wednesday

Port of Leith secures finance deal to build hundreds of homes

Port of Leith Housing Association (PoLHA) has secured a new £35m private funding facility to support its plans to build over 480 homes for social and mid-market rent in Leith and North Edinburgh by 2020. Continue reading Port of Leith secures finance deal to build hundreds of homes

Forth Neighbourhood Partnership public meeting

The next Forth Neighbourhood Partnership Public Meeting is on Wednesday 31 August 2016 at 7pm in The Church Hall, Granton Baptist Church, 99 Crewe Road North. See below for further details.

Forth Neighbourhood Partnership

Public Meeting

At 7pm on Wednesday 31^stAugust 2016

Granton Baptist Church, 99 Crewe Road North

Come along and hear about:

Progress on the move to Locality Working by City of Edinburgh Council and Partners – and what this means for residents of North Edinburgh
Potential changes to flight paths at Edinburgh Airport
Improvements at West Pilton Park
Progress on the Regeneration of North Edinburgh

There will also be a short period during the meeting for Neighbourhood Partnership business.

An agenda and papers will be available nearer to the meeting. For further information contact Jim Pattison, 529 5082 – jim.pattison@edinburgh.gov.uk

Sign up for The Big Obstacle

Dear colleague,

Granton Youth Centre are going to be hosting a 4k charity fun run called The Big Obstacle and we would like to invite you to take part.

The Big Obstacle will be held on Sunday 18 September at Inverleith Park as a joint event with Inverleith Neighbourhood Partnership. There will also be a walk and cycle festival on the same day!

This is your opportunity to fundraise for your organisation/charity. The Big Obstacle will bring the community together and encourage young people and adults to get active and have fun!

All participants will receive a t-shirt, certificate, medal and healthy snack.

Availability is limited and will be on a strictly first come, first serve basis. Both individuals and teams (up to 5 people per team) can register.

More information and registration forms can be found below.

Any questions or completed registration forms to be returned by Friday 12^th of August to this email address. Even if you want to book a team slot and we can get team information closer to the time that is okay.

The Big Obstacle has been planned and organised by local young people for young people!

We look forward to hearing back from you and hope to see you on the 18^th of September.

Shelley

thebigobstacle@grantonyouth.com

Agency Information Pack- The Big Obstacle

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Planning and Design: It’s YOUR community

Communities to have their say in the design of their area

Communities across Scotland will have the chance to map out the future of their towns with design experts. The Scottish Government is launching two funds to allow people to have a direct role in making their towns and villages better places to live.

Funding of £300,000 is available across two grant schemes – the Design Charrettes programme and the Activating Ideas Fund.

Charrettes bring together the public, stakeholders and designers over a number of days to draw up viable proposals, while the Activating Ideas fund will support participation and empowerment initiatives in disadvantaged areas.

Minister for Local Government Kevin Stewart said: “The quality of our places has an important influence on our lives. This Government is committed to empowering communities and involving them in the planning process.

“We have already seen really good examples of this in the few years since the charrettes programme has been running. In Maybole the Community Association and Community Council sourced additional funding to modernise and improve access to the Town Hall gardens. And in Girvan there is a successful plan for a new swimming facility which is due to open in 2017 following the closure of the local pool.

“Local communities have a wealth of knowledge about their local area. Bringing communities together with design expertise will enable ideas and proposals to be developed to deliver positive change. This initiative provides a way of enabling people across Scotland to have their say on the long- term future of their community.”

Continue reading Planning and Design: It’s YOUR community

Meet the Hi-Vis Dads!

Circle’s Haven Project High-Vis Dads Arts Workshop took on the challenge laid down by the Year of the Dad slogan: ‘celebrating the difference a great dad can make’. Dads’ support worker PETE CLOKE explains all …

Family life can face many challenges for families in the Forth Ward, where Circle works through its Haven Project. Through the Arts Workshop, we gave Haven families the chance to consider all the amazing potential being realised in their father’s role.

The fathers’ and children’s energy took on the vision of the lead artist, Angela Austin, and truly took on a life of its own. This 8’ x 6’ behemoth was full of colour and energy in a way that only a child could have envisioned.

Fathers and their children worked creative magic each afternoon from the 11^th to the 15^th of July. The project now has the dual role of advertising and celebrating fatherhood with all the other fathers in their local area.

This will be achieved when the final sculpture is exhibited from

September 19^th – October 7^th at North Edinburgh Arts

along with the photography of Fiona Burness, who visited the project during its construction.

We have been able to celebrate with families the joy of being a father and now we want to encourage all the other dads out there!

Pete Cloke

More Hidden Gems Walks

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Following the success of last year’s Hidden Gems walks PCHP are running another series of six walks discovering parts of North Edinburgh you never knew existed! Even people who have lived in North Edinburgh all their lives are guaranteed to find out new things about their local area.

“I can’t believe I learned so much about the area I lived in considering I have been here all my life” said Kathy, who joined in with last year’s walks.

All walks are led by PCHP’s award-winning walk leaders and will be at an easy pace. All walks start at 7pm except the first one (21 July) which starts at 6.30pm

The first walk takes you to Lauriston Castle. Meet up at Silverknowes Golf Course at 6.30pm on Thursday (21 July). The walk will take about an hour to an hour and a half.

21^st July Meander Round Lauriston Castle Gardens 1 mile

NB this walk starts at 6.30pm not 7pm

Meet Roundabout Silverknowes Golf Course Silverknowes Rd, EH4 5ET

28^th July All that Sparkles Art Walk 2 and ¾ miles

Meet North Edinburgh Arts Centre 15a Pennywell Rd, EH4 4TZ

4^th August Discovering Granton’s Industrial Past 1 mile

Meet north side Granton Square by Lochinvar Drive EH5 1HE

11^th August Long Gone Schooldays 1.4 m

Meet north side Granton Square by Lochinvar Drive EH5 1HE

18^th August North Edinburgh’s Lost Medieval Walled Garden 2m

Meet Prentice Centre 1 Granton Mains Ave, EH4 4GA

25^th August Foraging for Free 3 miles

Meet North Edinburgh Arts Centre 15a Pennywell Rd, EH4 4TZ

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For more details please contact 0131 551 1671 or email admin@pchp.org.uk

Clare Symonds (Development worker – Physical Activity)

Move It, Pilton Community Health Project

73 Boswall Parkway, Edinburgh EH5 2PW

0131 551 1671

http://www.pchp.org.uk/

Cracking down on motorbike crime

Young people riding motorbikes dangerously on our streets, green space, cycleways and even pavements has been causing anger and alarm in North Edinburgh for a long time now, so local residents will be delighted to hear that city police have launched a new operation dedicated to tackling motorbike theft and associated antisocial behaviour in the Capital. Continue reading Cracking down on motorbike crime

First sod cut at North West Partnership Centre

A sod cutting ceremony was carried out last week to officially mark the start of construction work on the first of three health and social care centres in Edinburgh and West Lothian. Maureen Watt, Minister for Mental Health, officially cut the ground on the North West Edinburgh Partnership Centre in Muirhouse on 6 July. Continue reading First sod cut at North West Partnership Centre