On Wednesday 5th December, Spartans Community Football Academy will celebrate 10 years at it’s home in North Edinburgh. Continue reading Spartans celebrate ten years at Ainslie Park with free football game
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Join the celebrations at North Edinburgh Childcare
Ground-breaking local project North Edinburgh Childcare celebrates it’s twentieth birthday in May – and the community’s invited to the party! Continue reading Join the celebrations at North Edinburgh Childcare
Muirhouse Library celebrates 25 years of Library Link service
A local library success story was shared last week as the Library Link service celebrated it’s 25th birthday. This popular service helps people who have difficulty getting out to access books and other library services. It’s fitting that the celebrations centred on Muirhouse Library, for it’s here that the Link service was first established all those years ago! Continue reading Muirhouse Library celebrates 25 years of Library Link service
Celebrations at Carlyle Court
Residents at a sheltered and owner occupied housing complex in Comely Bank were treated to a special lunch to celebrate a major anniversary in the history of the site recently. Continue reading Celebrations at Carlyle Court
Celebratory service to mark St David’s anniversary
The congregation of St David’s church in Royston Mains Place invite you to a celebratory service to mark the 75th anniversary of the church this Sunday – see poster for details.
All welcome.
My room on this earth: a Port of Leith celebration
PoLHA film celebrates forty years as social housing leader
Port of Leith Housing Association has released a short film to celebrate it’s fortieth anniversary. The documentary looks at the impact PoLHA has made in the local community over the past four decades.
Continue reading My room on this earth: a Port of Leith celebration
Celebrate Maggies birthday today!
Happy 19th Birthday to you, Maggies Centre!
7/7 tenth anniversary: Prime Minister’s statement
‘We will keep on doing all that we can to keep the British public safe’ – Prime Minister David Cameron
Prime Minister David Cameron has made a statement on the tenth anniversary of the 7 July 2005 London bombings.
He said: “Today the country comes together to remember the victims of one of the deadliest terrorist atrocities on mainland Britain.
“Ten years on from the 7/7 London attacks, the threat from terrorism continues to be as real as it is deadly – the murder of 30 innocent Britons whilst holidaying in Tunisia is a brutal reminder of that fact. But we will never be cowed by terrorism.
“We will keep on doing all that we can to keep the British public safe, protecting vulnerable young minds from others’ extremist beliefs and promoting the shared values of tolerance, love and respect that make Britain so great.”
Malcolm Chisholm is MS Therapy Centre’s first patron
MS Therapy Centre signs up first patron
Malcolm Chisholm MSP has lent his support to the MS Therapy Centre Lothian by becoming its first patron.
The charity, which is celebrating its 30th anniversary this year, provides help and practical therapies such as physiotherapy, complementary therapies and oxygen therapy as well as emotional support and advice for those living with MS in Edinburgh and the Lothians.
Former Health minister Malcolm Chisholm, who is currently Labour MSP for Edinburgh Northern and Leith, said: “I am delighted to have been asked to be patron of this superb Centre which provides such an invaluable service to people with MS in Edinburgh and further afield. Having spoken to many people who use the Centre I know how incredibly important it is to have these services readily available and I shall do everything I can to promote and support the Centre.”
Nancy Campbell, Operations Manager at the Centre, said: “We’re delighted to have Malcolm Chisholm on board. The charity has been helping people with MS for 30 years and it’s the only place of its kind in the Lothians and surrounding regions.
“Scotland has the highest incidence of MS in the world and we currently support around 200 people through a range of therapies including hyberbaric oxygen therapy which greatly relieves the symptoms.”
To mark the charity’s anniversary, a fundraising dinner will be held on Friday 19 September at Edinburgh’s Minto Hotel. Tickets for the dinner – which includes a three course meal, wine, live music (from the 80s to the present day), close-up magic, raffle and silent auction – are £40.
To buy tickets please visit www.mstc-lothian.org.uk
PEP celebrates quarter century
How do you pack twenty-five years of history into a two hour time slot – and leave time for lunch too? It was a Herculean task for for Pilton Equalities Project, but like so many challenges they’ve faced in the past the local project passed the test with flying colours!
Staff past and present, volunteers, service users, friends and community colleagues celebrated PEP’s 25th anniversary at Edinburgh College Granton Campus on Friday.
Introduced by PEP chairperson Joan Turner, health professionals Jane Jones and Christa Wynn-Williams, former PEP worker and community activist Roberta Blaikie and current manager Helen Tait took their guests on a whistle-stop tour: from the beginnings in Royston Wardieburn and The Health Hut as Pilton Elderly Project right on to the present day as the multi-faceted Pilton Equalities Project – quite a journey!
As well as speakers there were displays of PEP memorabilia and photographs and guests also had the opportunity to renew auld acquantances and reminisce over a buffet lunch.
Many happy returns PEP – and here’s to the next 25 years!
and here’s 25 pictures … well, nearly!
