Scottish SPCA’s education programme makes an impact on Edinburgh & Lothians kids
The Scottish SPCA, Scotland’s animal welfare charity and the University of Edinburgh have released research demonstrating the positive impact of Animal Welfare Education for children. The paper was launched with the help of children from Buckstone Primary School yesterday. Continue reading Animals have feelings too
Thursday 2 March 6 – 9pm
A challenge designed to instil a love of reading in young people is being extended to reach an additional 173,000 children across Scotland. The First Minister’s Reading Challenge will now be open to children in Primary 1 to Primary 7, after the success of the initial scheme which was for primaries 4 – 7. Continue reading :’Happy readers make good learners’: reading challenge extended
Continue reading Brock calls for rethink on ‘heartless’ disability cuts
It’s been a busy old week at Muirhouse Millennium Centre – and it’s only Thursday!
For ages we have been crying out for a defibrillator to safeguard the lives of many vulnerable users of Muirhouse Community Centre (writes James McGinty). On Tuesday morning Sonia McGraw (Jamie Skinner Project) donated exactly that! Continue reading Hearts and minds at Millennium Centre
Borders-based author Claire McFall has been named the winner of the very first Scottish Teenage Book Prize. Claire’s third novel, Black Cairn Point, garnered votes from young people (aged 12 – 16) across the country to beat off stiff competition from Keith Gray’s The Last Soldier and Joan Lennon’s Silver Skin. Continue reading Inaugural Scottish teenage book prize winner revealed
The City of Edinburgh Council benefitted from a nationwide increase of 2.7% in education spending last year, thanks to Scottish Government efforts to close the attainment gap and provide local authorities with a fair funding deal. Local MSP Ben Macpherson says that means a good deal for the city’s schoolchildren. Continue reading Schools spending boost for Edinburgh
St Columba’s Hospice has launched an interactive timeline that showcases key and quirky moments from throughout its 40 year history. Continue reading St. Columba’s turns back the hands of time
Tickets are now available for the up and coming Grow Wild hub training day at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Edinburgh in collaboration with the Grow Wild UK team, Edible Gardening Project, Water Works (Grow Wild flagship lead Mark Brand), Roy Watling (Mycology Expert) and more. Continue reading Grow Wild at The Botanics!
End of the road for ‘arms-length’ companies EDI and Waterfront Edinburgh
The City of Edinburgh Council is to change current arrangements for city development by providing a new, in-house one stop shop for developers and investors. Continue reading City development and regeneration: Edinburgh goes in-house
