More than sixty local people braved rain, sleet and snow to attend the North Edinburgh Community Conference on Saturday. The Conference agreed that doing nothing is not an option and established Action Groups to address the challenges facing our community. Continue reading Community conference plans a way forward
Category: Royston/Wardieburn
CAN you handle it? Double-header this weekend!
New cooking club at Pilton Community Health Project
Let’s get some sleep …
What next for our community?
COMMUNITY CONFERENCE
Saturday 13 February
Craigroyston Community High School
North Edinburgh is facing tough times. Services are being cut, good jobs are hard to come by and some of our projects are struggling to survive.
But maybe it’s not all doom and gloom. Our community has some great resources, and chief among these is our people: the activists and the volunteers, young and old.
This important conference will discuss what our community needs – and work out how, together, we can get where we want to be.
We believe the people who know best are the people who live here. North Edinburgh needs YOUR ideas – come along and help us to map out a positive future for our community.
Lunch provided.
Free creche available but MUST be booked in advance.
For further information call Andy or Dave at CAN on 315 6405 or email communityactionnorth@gmail.com
Forth Neighbourhood Partnership meets today
Forth Neighbourhood Partnership Public Meeting
Wednesday 3 February at 2pm
West Pilton Neighbourhood Centre
Come along and hear about:
West Pilton Park improvement plans
The Neighbourhood Environment Programme Fund (NEPs)
Friends of Granton Castle Walled Garden group
All welcome
Train with North Edinburgh Childcare
We still have places available for our Childcare Academy Information Sessions on:
Monday 8th February @ 10am
Wednesday 17th February @ 1.30pm
If you would like to book a place to come along and hear more about the Academy, ask any questions and take away an application pack, please do not hesitate to contact me on the number below or Barbara Webster on 0131 311 6926.
Audrey O’Neill
Training Administrator
North Edinburgh Childcare
18b Ferry Road Avenue
Edinburgh, EH4 4BL
Community ‘the key’ to tackling crime
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Recently-appointed Chief Constable Phil Gormley said community is they key to tackling crime during a visit to Leith with Justice Secretary Michael Mathieson last week. The visit coincided with news that reported crime in the North Edinburgh area has dropped by almost a quarter, with over 1700 fewer crimes reported in the last nine months. Continue reading Community ‘the key’ to tackling crime
Childcare Academy information sessions

We still have places available for our Childcare Academy Information Sessions on:
Monday 8 February @ 10am
Wednesday 17 February @ 1.30pm
If you would like to book a place to come along and hear more about the Academy, ask any questions and take away an application pack, please do not hesitate to contact me on the number below or Barbara Webster on 311 6926.
Audrey O’Neill
Training Administrator, North Edinburgh Childcare
Tel: 311 6931
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Forth Neighbourhood Partnership to meet on 3 February
Forth Neighbourhood Partnership Public Meeting
Wednesday 3 February, 2pm
West Pilton Neighbourhood Centre
Come along and hear about:
Plans for the improvement of West Pilton Park
- Increasing the use of the park for physical activity
- Improving the park environment
- Improving people’s perception of the park
The Neighbourhood Environment Programme Fund (NEPs)
- A presentation on some of the projects carried out locally to improve our open spaces.
- How you can get involved in identifying future projects.
Friends of Granton Castle Walled Garden Group
- A presentation on Granton’s ‘forgotten’ walled garden – dating from Jacobean times.
- Proposals from local people to safeguard and restore the garden.
There will also be a short period at the start of the meeting for Neighbourhood Partnership business. For further information contact Jim Pattison, 529 5082 – jim.pattison@edinburgh.gov.uk








