As Scottish Book Trust marks its 21st anniversary, the independent national charity transforming lives through reading and writing has launched a new fundraising campaign to provide crucial support to vulnerable families and help fight the effects of living in poverty through reading and books. Continue reading Scottish Book Trust launches anti-poverty campaign
With festival fever officially finishing today, Edinburgh Leisure has unveiled their new membership offer, designed to help thousands of new customers try activities and get more active this autumn, just in time for … Christmas!
With recent research highlighting the dangers of inactivity, Edinburgh Leisure is offering new members joining from today, 26 August to 30 September 2019, a free month in October. Existing members who refer a friend, who then joins, will receive £30 cash back.
With 30+ venues including 9 swimming pools, 14 gyms and 800 fitness classes per week, Edinburgh Leisure is the ‘biggest club in town’ providing the widest range of fitness classes, state of the art facilities and community based programmes across the capital, creating opportunities for everyone to get active, stay active and achieve more.
Rory High, Marketing Officer at Edinburgh Leisure said: “We’re passionate about providing opportunities and support for people to participate in physical activities and sport, whatever their age and stage.
“And for those joining now, they’re going to be so busy with all the wonderful facilities that Edinburgh Leisure has on offer across the city centre that we’re urging them to keep October free, as well as giving them that month for free.”
With adult memberships starting from as little as £31.00, there is a range of packages, including swim, fitness, gym and climbing.
Edinburgh Leisure gyms have the latest state of the art equipment including some of the newest cardiovascular machines; offer over 800 fitness classes per week including Les Mills Programmes; and has five modernised Victorian pools and the Royal Commonwealth Pool in their portfolio, although Leith Victoria pool is currently undergoing a phased refurbishment.
They also boast Edinburgh International Climbing Centre at Ratho, the largest indoor climbing arena in Europe.
https://www.edinburghleisure.co.uk/september-offer-2019
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Drylaw Telford Community Council resumes after the summer break with a meeting on Wednesday at 7pm in Drylaw Parish Church.
All welcome.
Creative learning opportunities for city schools
With just over a month to go until Edinburgh’s Kiltwalk, Scotland’s largest children’s charity is offering free entry to the event for those pledging to walk for them. Continue reading Charity offers free places to Edinburgh Kiltwalkers
CENTRE for the Moving Image (Edinburgh Filmhouse) and Africa in Motion Film Festival which takes place in Edinburgh and Glasgow, 25 October- 3rd November, are among 12 community cinema projects across Scotland receiving new funding to transform the local cinema going experience. Continue reading Transforming local cinema provision in Edinburgh
First session is Wednesday 11th September at 6pm
Limited places – book now!
MUIRHOUSE YOUTH DEVELOPMENT GROUP
Autumn Programme starts Monday 2nd September
Hey everyone! Our new programme hot off the press!
It starts week beginning Monday 2nd September 2019.
Any questions please just give our office a call on: 0131 332 3356.
See you all soon!
Ambitious plans for redefining health and social care services in Edinburgh have been published.
The Edinburgh Integration Joint Board (EIJB), which oversees the delivery of services which support the wellbeing of adults in the Capital, says it will radically transform the way Edinburgh delivers its health and social care services over the next three year planning cycle and beyond. Continue reading “First step on a long journey” – EIJB strategic plan approved
Waverley Mall Edinburgh is thrilled to announce the latest addition to the Centre as The Fruitmarket Gallery signs up to move in from mid-September 2019.
The move comes as plans to extensively renovate and extend The Fruitmarket Gallery on Market Street are approved, resulting in the temporary closure of the Gallery while works are completed.
Waverley Mall will become the temporary home to The Fruitmarket Gallery and ‘Bookmarket’ – an independent, award-winning bookshop run by the Gallery. With an admiration for good books at its core and a mission to help customers find beautiful, useful, and unique books, the Bookmarket pop up will be accessed via Williams and Johnson Coffee Co. just off Princes Street at the top of Waverley Steps.
It will offer expertly selected niche titles, hard-to-find arts resource texts, artist’s books, and specialist books on typography, art theory, design, architecture, and fashion, plus a curated selection of design-led products and cards from all around the world.
Waverley Mall is excited to work with The Fruitmarket Gallery, welcoming its loyal customers and introducing some new ones to the Gallery in its new home. Gallery staff will also enjoy new office space at the Centre, during this year of transition, with workshops, talks and performances happening in the space, as well as a series of pop-up exhibitions.
The first of these will be the culmination of 6 weeks of workshops on zine making by Fresh Fruit, the Fruitmarket’s peer led group of young people aged 16-25 years. Zines are quick and cheap to produce and have a radical underground history where anything goes and different voices can be heard. The results can be seen at Bookmarket from Saturday 26 October.
The addition of Bookmarket to Waverley Mall is truly reflective of the Centre’s vision for the mall as a hub of music, arts and culture in the heart of Edinburgh. The aspirations of Moorgarth Group, who own the Centre, include the offering of products, services and experiences that are surprising and unexpected and very much not what you’d find on the average high street.
The busy city-centre shopping mall has recently enjoyed a series of new store openings including Mademoiselle Macaron – an Edinburgh-based French patisserie and Clicks and Mortar – a new concept collaboration between Amazon, Enterprise Nation, Square and Direct Line for Business, who together create a space through which small, independent businesses can trade.
Daryll Bunce, Director of New Revenue Solutions, Moorgarth Group Ltd. says: “The addition of this Edinburgh institution, The Fruitmarket Gallery to Waverley Mall is fantastic news for us as they provide a very current and relevant offering to our customers, which ties in perfectly with the overall vision we are striving for.
“This journey started 12 months ago with the opening of Williams & Johnson – Leith’s best coffee roaster in an amazing new store on the upper level of Waverley. This has become a real destination for great coffee in the city centre and following the success of this, we have established a brand new space for the Fruitmarket Gallery which continues to expand our offering and adds a whole new dimension to the mall.”
Fiona Bradley, Director of The Fruitmarket Gallery said: “We jumped at the opportunity to work with our neighbours Waverley Mall, embracing the chance to meet new audiences in this busy part of Edinburgh.
“It is great to be able to keep our much-loved independent bookshop open, and to have a space for our Engagement team to run events and workshops during our closure.”
