Today and tomorrow at FRESH START Ferry Road Drive
Pirniehall, St David’s, Craigroyston and Forthview Primary Schools
Craigroyston Community High School
subject to availability
Free ‘nearly new’ school uniforms at Fresh Start this morning
Category: Pennywell
Vaccination Bus arriving at North Edinburgh Arts tomorrow
TUESDAY 10th & WEDNESDAY 11th AUGUST 10am – 4pm
NO APPOINTMENT NECESSARY
New community testing stations open today
- Blackhall Mosque, 1 House O’Hill Road, EH4 2AJ from Monday 9 August to Thursday 12 August and Saturday 14 August from 9.30am to 5.30pm, Sunday 15 August 9.30am to 5pm
- Wester Hailes Healthy Living Centre, 30 Harvesters Way, EH14 3JF from Monday 9 August to Sunday 15 August, 9.30am to 5.30pm (5pm on Sunday)
VACCINATION BUS ARRIVES AT NORTH EDINBURGH ARTS TOMORROW
Break-in: Pennywell Pantry will reopen next week
Due to a break in earlier this week, the Pennywell Pantry will not reopen until Wednesday 28th July. We are very sorry to all our members.
For updates, check in with the Link up Muirhouse team.
Covid jag? Call in at Craigie!
Available daily until Sunday from 8.30am – 4pm
Drop-in vaccination sessions at Craigroyston Community High School next week
DROP IN VACCINATION CLINIC ALL WEEK
Craigroyston Community High School
Monday 5th – Sunday 11th July
8.30am – 4pm
EU settlement scheme Hub opens on Pennywell Road
DEADLINE is 30th June – Book your slot NOW
EU citizens living in Edinburgh, your attention please!
From today until deadline day – Wednesday 30th June, Citizens Advice Edinburgh are running an EU Settlement Scheme hub, to offer you a safe reassuring space to complete your application.
Register here
https://bit.ly/3haNgo2
Social distancing measures will apply.
MSP encourages over-18s to register for vaccine via portal
Edinburgh Pentlands MSP, Gordon MacDonald, is urging everyone aged 18 and over, who has not received a first coronavirus (COVID-19)vaccination appointment or has missed their first dose for any reason, to sign up to the self registration portal from Monday (28 June 2021).
The portal will be open from 8am on Monday 28 June until the initial vaccination programme ends in September. The online system, which was used successfully to encourage unpaid carers and 18-29 year olds to come forward, will be available to every adult in Scotland. Those who sign up will receive a text or email with details of their appointment which they can change if the time or location is unsuitable.
SNP MSP, Gordon MacDonald said: “The roll-out and high take up of the vaccine has been brilliant. I thank everyone who have worked so hard on to make it the success that it is and every single person who has went along to their appointment.
“This new portal will make sure that as many adults as possible in Scotland receive the vaccine as quickly as possible – no matter if you’ve just arrived in Scotland, are not registered with a GP or you don’t have an up-to-date home address.
“It’s clear from the evidence that vaccination is helping protect people from serious health harms and it is vaccine which offers us the best route out of this pandemic.
“I urge everyone to take the opportunity to protect themselves, their families and their community by getting the vaccine – and help us all get closer to normality as soon, and as safely, as possible.”
Self-registration portal: www.nhsinform.scot/vaccineregistration
And a reminder about Surge Vaccination Clinics open this weekend:
Surge vax clinics this weekend at Pennywell All Care Centre
Open this weekend – vaccine clinics for anyone over 40 – 1st doses, 2nd for those at least 8 weeks since first AZ vaccine at Pennywell All Care, Conan Doyle Practice, Sighthill Practice – just turn up you do not need to be registered with a GP.
North Edinburgh Arts capital project update & AGM
Dear North Edinburgh Arts Friend,
North Edinburgh Arts Board and Director have been working in partnership with Council officers to develop the Planning application for the MacMillan Hub submitted last week.
Details and a link to the full application on the planning portal can be accessed here: www.northedinburgharts.co.uk/development
NEA are continuing to work on the costs and timetable for the MacMillan Hub, focusing on the extension and refurbishment of our building as an integral part of the Hub. Our Fundraiser, Roger Horam at Red Lynx, and Board continue to apply for funding and have had positive meetings with a range of statutory and third sector funders.
On 3 June 2021 the Council agreed to put forward NEA for consideration as part of the Scottish Government Regeneration Capital Grant Fund. On 10 June 2021 the Council agreed to put NEA, as a key part of the MacMillan Hub, forward for the UK Levelling Up Fund.
This fund needs support from our local MP, and we thank Christine Jardine MP for her support. We would be grateful, too, for your support of NEA’s ambitious plan, and welcome any input you may be able to make, on behalf of our community, to decision makers at both the Scottish and Westminster Governments who will be assessing our applications for funding.
If you have any questions or want more information please get in touch with us by emailing our Director Kate Wimpress at director@northedinburgharts.co.uk
I also would like to invite you to our forthcoming General Meeting on 21 July 2021 at 6.30pm, most likely to be held via Zoom, and would be pleased to speak with you then if you are able to attend.
Yours sincerely
Lesley Hinds
Chair, North Edinburgh Arts
on behalf of the North Edinburgh Arts’ Board of Trustees