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Fancy trying a game of bowls? Dudley Bowling Club is holding an Open Day at their Dudley Grove green on Sunday 22 April from 11am – 4pm. Players of all ages and experience welcome.
Telephone 554 7912 for more information.
North Edinburgh Arts Centre is the place to be next Saturday (21 April) when it stages the only Edinburgh performances of the classic ‘Ragged Trousered Philanthropists’.
This hilarious, fast-paced adaptation of Robert Tressell’s classic book shares with its audience a year in the life of a group of painters and decorators as they renovate ‘The Cave’, a three-storey town house, for Mayor Sweater. It traces their hardships and struggles for survival in a complacent and stagnating Edwardian England. These workers are the ‘philanthropists’ who throw themselves into back-breaking work for poverty wages in order to generate profit for their masters.
This enduring and absorbing classic story is brought to life by Neil Gore and Rodney Matthew, two hugely talented and experienced performers, using comedy routines and entertaining songs of the Music Hall, with a few surprises along the way!
Robert Tressell’s book has become a classic of working-class literature since its first publication in 1914. The themes and style of the piece are eternally relevant and provoking as it puts life and politics into sharp focus in an entertaining and accessible way.
Stephen Lowe’s version of the story was first seen in 1978, when Joint Stock Theatre Company toured the country playing to packed houses. The play was revived at the Half Moon Theatre, London in 1983 and again for a touring production by the Birmingham Rep in 1991.
Townsend Productions’ ‘The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists’ excellent cast features Rodney Matthew who joins the production straight off the back of ‘Jerusalem’ in the West End. He has worked at many of the leading repertory theatres, including West Yorkshire Playhouse where he worked for a year and at Dundee Rep where he spent a memorable five years performing in classical, musical and new work around Scotland. Matthew is joined on stage in the two-hander by the talented Neil Gore (Song of Singapore, Chichester Festival Theatre and the West End). The production is directed by Louise Townsend, with the creative team including designs by Fine Time Fontayne and lighting by Jo Dawson.
The play has had the Backing of the unions RMT, Unite, Unite, Scotland, TUC, SETUC, GMB, PCS, Wales TUC, NUT, Accord, UCATT NASWT and the FBU.
Tickets for The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists (performances at 2pm and 7pm) are priced at £10.00 Conc. £5.00 and can be purchased at North Edinburgh Arts Box Office: 0131 315 2151.
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Tickets for the evening performance are already sold out and tickets for the matinée are going fast. However you can win tickets for the play – North Edinburgh Arts has two tickets to give away for the matinée and NEN has to more for the evening performance. Check out April’s NEN to find out how to win tickets to a must-see show!
North Edinburgh Arts Theatre Group meets this Friday from 6 – 8pm, with the session focusing on theatre skills development.
If you’d like to be part of the company who produced last year’s acclaimed ‘Yes we Can Can’ community cabaret, go along to North Edinburgh Arts Centre on Friday evening or contact theatre project’s Stephanie Knight by email at stephaniejaneknight@gmail.com
Lothian and Borders Police are warning the public to remain vigilant for an ongoing scam after a local woman was defrauded.
The 42-year-old woman was in her Telford Drive home on Wednesday 28 March when she received a call from someone claiming to be from a PPI claims company. During the call, the woman was advised that she was eligible for a PPI refund and was instructed to pay a three-figure sum of money via UKASH vouchers, which she did. However, the victim never received any form of refund and detectives are now urging others to be wary of also falling victim to this fraud.
A police spokesman said: “The issue of PPI refunds is a very current topic and criminals will look to exploit any new opportunity to obtain money or personal details from members of our communities.
Members of the public should never disclose bank details or other sensitive information to any companies or individuals unless entirely certain of their authenticity. Anyone who has received a call similar to this should report the matter to police or Action Fraud immediately on 0300 123 2040.”
The April NEN will arrive from the printers today and will be distributed across North Edinburgh over the coming days – we hope you enjoy reading your new NEN; we think it looks great but we’re biased! Let us know what you think.
This latest edition is slightly later than planned but, starting next month, we plan to publish monthly once again. The deadline for the May paper will be 15 May ( all future deadlines will be the 15th for that month’s paper ) , so if you have events to publicise, stories to share or wish to advertise your business or organisation please get in touch.
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With a growing acceptance that green technology is the way forward – and every indication that the job market in renewable energy sector will grow over the coming years – Edinburgh’s Telford College produced another first with the launch of the country’s first dedicated renewable energy training centre last week.
Edinburgh’s Renewable Energy Innovation Centre (EREIC) will offer extensive training and skills development for workers employed in the renewable and construction industries. The centre will provide training in micro-renewable energy sources and complements the more traditional courses offered to students such as heritage, roofing and brickwork.
Telford’s head of employer services Myra Dickson explained: “The new centre will help to ensure that Scotland has workers skilled for modern and environmentally friendly projects, thereby meeting the needs of employers and industry, both now and in the future. It also allows Edinburgh’s Telford College to demonstrate its determination to evolve to ensure it is delivering courses that provide opportunities for our new and current generations of employees.”
College Principal Miles Dibsdall OBE added: “The renewable energy centre ideally illustrates the focus we have made to provide the best possible employment and training opportunities.”
This week is the six month anniversary of Dads Rock playgroup, and we thought it was time to reflect on how far we have come, and how much support we have had from so many in such a short space of time.
Thanks to the support we have received, we have been more successful that we could have hoped.
We have now had over 50 Dads come along to our group and with average weekly numbers of 18 Dads and kids it shows that there is a great need for our group in Edinburgh. We have a real mix of Dads coming from all parts of Edinburgh, we have local Dads from across the street as well as Dads who have driven from outside the city, even as far as Galasheils.
We now have a core group who attend on a regular basis and some good relationships have been developed. It is great to see Dads coming together talking about what it means to be a Dad and playing with their kids.
We have over 330 people/organisations following us on Twitter, and our Facebook page has reached over 930 people in one day. Our Polish publicity has paid off with on average 50% of attendees being of Polish origin. We have had interest from a variety of sources including other like minded groups local and national press, MSPs and our MP.
We are proud to have started in Sighthill in Edinburgh and are developing plans to expand the service to allow more areas to benefit from the Dads Rock Experience. Thanks again to all the Dads who’ve come along, the kids for the fun they’ve had.
For more information visit the Dads Rock Facebook page here: Dads Rock Facebook Page
David Marshall & Thomas Lynch (founders of Dads Rock)
Ten man Leith Athletic battled hard for a well earned point again Spartans on Saturday at Muirhouse.
Spartans started strong and took the lead in just the 10th minute. A corner was only half cleared by the Leith defence. The ball fell to Keith McLeod on the edge of the box and his shot was then flicked over Iain Gordon in the Leith goal by Chris Anderson.
Spartans looked to build on their early lead and dominated the first half in terms of possession, however, they created a limited number of chances and found Leith keeper Gordon in fine form as he kept out Gavin Malin, Keith McLeod and the impressive Donal Henretty.
The second half was a different game altogether as Leith started much stronger than they had in the first. Spartans were still creating chances though in what was an end to end game and Gordon was once again in fine form as he got his fingertips to a Gavin Malin freekick which looked destined for the top corner.
Leith’s task looked to have been much harder when they were reduced to ten men after about the 70th minute. Captain Gary Black receiving his 2nd yellow card for a late challenge on Omar Kader. Rather than hinder Leith this seemed to galvanise them and they went on to play better with 10 men than they had with 11.
Leith had several opportunties to equalise giving Spartans plenty warning that it was on the cards and therefor it was no surprise when they eventually did get the goal they deserved in the 89th minute. A freekick was played long into the box, the Spartans defence could only half clear and Lewis Tracey headed home.
Spartans started to push forward and Malin, Beesley, Kader and McLeod all looked to create goal scoring chances however good defending meant they were unable to find a winning goal.
In the end a draw was probably the right result and leaves Spartans twelve points clear of Stirling Uni, however the students have four games in hand, the first of which is this tuesday, at Leith Athletic.
Spartans co-manger Mike Lawson said “we had chances to put the game to bed in the first half but paid the penalty as Leith stepped things up after the interval and deserved their late point saving goal. There is still everything to play for at the top of the table and we now have to concentrate on our game next weekend.”
Hustings at Royston Wardieburn Community Centre on Thursday 26th April from 6-8-30pm. Chance to ask your prospective candidate for the Forth Ward what they will do for the area should they be elected on to the council All Welcome.
Anna Hutchison
