Tenants and Residents in Pilton (TRIP) are holding their annual general meeting in The Doocot tonight at 7pm. The AGM will be followed by a Christmas dinner.
TRIP’s Jon Black said: “It would be great to see residents of West Pilton/West Granton there for the AGM, and you will get a Xmas dinner. Anyone from further afield is most welcome to join us after the AGM part of the evening for food and a drink!”
For further information give Jon a call on 0790 191 4829.
Shopping all done? Presents wrapped? Then it’s time to put your feet up, relax and enjoy the NEN’s Twelve Days of Christmas Quiz!
Below you’ll find the first letters of words in the first lines of twelve classic Christmas songs. Can you name them all?
1. TTIAHTNAH
2. AIAMNCFAB
3. WSGSUTC
4. OTFDOC
5. IDOAWC
6. AYHUYSOYW
7. AROHFITS
8. WWITA
9. CTTMPRPPP
10. WWYAMC
11. OCAYFJAT
12. IWCEB
Send your answers to the NEN blog or email: northedinnews@gmail.com
There’s no prize – just a bit of festive fun – but we’ll give an honourable mention to all correct entries received before 31 December. Good luck!
Licketyspit
Craigroyston Nursery and Primary 1 children are taking part in Lickety Leap – an exciting new interactive theatre project for Early years Children.
Licketyspit Theatre Company is based at North Edinburgh Arts and the group has performed shows including Molly Whuppie, Magic Spaghetti and Wee Witches at the arts centre. Lickety Leap is their first totally interactive show and is performed with small groups of children. It is a really memorable and enjoyable experience for the children and it has shown to have a big impact on their developing confidence, social skills, ability to work together and to problem solve.
Licketyspit has been funded to deliver Lickety Leap across Scotland and it’s all beginning here in North Edinburgh’s Craigroyston Primary School!
“This group was great for the kids. My daughter loved it and when we went to see everything the kids had done their faces showed just how much they loved it. It is really good how it gets the kid’s imagination going so well with the simplest of thing” – Caitlin’s mum
“Lickey Leap has been a fun-filled, exciting and entertaining project which children, parents and staff have enjoyed; it allows children to be actively involved in a fun adventure to find their ‘heart’s desire’” – (Craigroyston PS Staff)
The Festival staged by North Edinburgh Waterfront Community at The Hub in Edinburgh’s Telford College last night proved to be a real Christmas cracker. A bit like opening those Christmas presents you never know what you’re going to get next, and so it proved at Telford.
With songs by Granton Primary School and Pilrig Church choir, films, quizzes and international music from the Rongong family – and some truly awful Christmas cracker jokes too! – there was something for everyone. With free refreshments, face painting and Christmas crafts and decoration-making, laid on by members of local churches, the evening was the perfect antidote to the stresses and strains of last-minute Christmas shopping.
For more information on North Edinburgh Waterfront Community go to info@new-community.org.uk
New Year, new community crèche for North Edinburgh? Local organisation Stepping Stones has held discussions with Community Learning and Development staff at Royston Wardieburn Community Centre to explore the possibility of setting up a new community crèche when the new Centre opens next year.
Stepping Stones’ Marilyn Keilloh explained: “The ‘new’ Royston Wardieburn Community Centre will be opening to the public in the New Year. Lydia Markham (Community Learning and Development) and I have had a very brief meeting about the possibility of developing a community crèche facility in the Centre. We have arranged a meeting for Thursday 12 January from 1 – 3pm in the new centre and would like to invite anyone who is interested in developing a facility like this in the area to come along”.
For further information call Marilyn at Stepping Stones North Edinburgh on 551 1632 or Lydia at Royston Wardieburn Community Centre on 552 5700.
Alex Dale, Drylaw Telford Community Council’s representative on Inverleith Neighbourhood Partnersip’s Clean, Green and Safe Action Group, has reported that Easter DrylawPark has been uprated from ‘good’ to ‘very good’ in the city council’s latest 2011 Parks Survey.
Granton and District Community Council meets this Wednesday (14 December) from 7 – 9pm at Spartans Community Football Academy. For further information please telephone 07923 548159.
This afternoon’s gymnastics festival at Broughton High School was a tremendous success, with children from across the city performing to a full house. Among those taking part were Broughton’s City of Edinburgh Display Team, Castlebrae, Stockbridge, Broughton High, Corstorphine, Forrester High, Flora Stevenson, Ferryhill, Pentland schools and the City of Edinburgh Gym Club Display Team staged a fantastic finale.
Young gymnasts from across the city will come together to showcase their skills at an exciting event at Broughton High School today.
Jude Salmon, Active Schools Coordinator for the Broughton cluster, said: “The first Inter City Gymnastics Festival will take place at Broughton High School this afternoon (Friday 9th December) from 2 – 4pm. This Festival is a non competitive display event, where all Edinburgh schools who take part in extra curricular gymnastics programmes will come together to perform routines to showcase their skills.
“ActiveSchools have been working in partnership with Activcity, City of Edinburgh Gymnastics Club and Edinburgh Leisure to introduce this all inclusive event to provide a platform to encourage long term participation in gymnastics and physical activity. The event will bring together children of all levels and abilities to perform a short routine to their friends, families and peers.”
Jude Salmon
Active SchoolsCo-ordinator
Broughton Cluster
Mobile:07884235111
Email: jude.salmon@ea.edin.sch.uk
A community garden in West Pilton growing fresh fruit, vegetables and herbs for everyone to enjoy. Come along and get involved helping build and plan the wee garden. Do you like gardening or want to learn? Residents in West Pilton Brae looking out onto the grassland will be the first people involved deciding what the garden could look like and what to grow.
I went door to door last year asking some of the residents views on having a community garden area growing fruit and veg, and what the grassland behind the ‘greenhouse’ is currently used for.
Some of the older residents remembered allotments in the area that were demolished during redevelopment, and most folk I spoke to like the idea and could see the benefits of food on their doorstep but were a bit worried about vandalism.
Dog walkers use the open space so just a bit of the grassland would be used for a garden. None of the woodland surrounding would be touched as the local kids play in it and it is a beautiful landscape feature.
The garden could provide an opportunity for young and old to get together in a healthy fun environment, learning where food comes from seed to plate. The local schools could visit and work there as could local equalities groups. Seasonal gluts in crops could be used for cooking classes and sharing of recipes. And people living in flats without a garden could share the growing space – those with gardens could swap plants and gardening advice.
Tenants and Residents in Pilton meets monthly in West Pilton Neighbourhood Centre, giving anyone living locally a chance to voice their opinion and be involved with the community garden. We have obtained permission from the council to use part of the grassland for a community garden. A bit of money is available to buy ten fruit trees to start the garden and soft fruits like raspberries and strawberries would grow well.
I will be going around the doors again to ask folk what they think and give anyone interested more information – contact details are below.
I like the gardening quote: “Gardening requires a lot of water, most of it in the form of perspiration“!
Please get involved and help fight food poverty – we could transform the grassland into a sheltered oasis.
Kirsty Sutherland
http://piltonresidents.org.uk/
07504 849 855
