Tag: community engagement

‘Bringing the area alive’: Newhaven gets gardening

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A local Heritage Garden Group enlisted the help of green-fingered volunteers to help green up an area in Newhaven’s Fishmarket Square recently.  The project is part of this year’s Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) Britain in Bloom, the UK’s largest community gardening campaign. Continue reading ‘Bringing the area alive’: Newhaven gets gardening

Scottish Gas staff kick off Volunteer Week in North Edinburgh

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More than 350 Scottish Gas employees took part in a volunteering challenge supporting local charities and community groups across North Edinburgh yesterday. Continue reading Scottish Gas staff kick off Volunteer Week in North Edinburgh

Community Council meeting rescheduled

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West Pilton West Granton Community Council’s next meeting has been rescheduled:

Dear All,
 
Due to holiday arrangements the next meeting of the West Pilton West Granton Community Council will have to be postponed.
 
The new date for the meeting is Tuesday 14th June 2016 at 7pm in the West Pilton Neighbourhood Centre.
 
Hope to see you there,
 
Barbara Robertson (secretary)

 

Inverleith Neighbourhood Partnership to meet on 6 June

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The next meeting of Inverleith Neighbourhood Partnership will be held on Monday 6 June at 6.30pm at Drylaw Neighbourhood Centre. Continue reading Inverleith Neighbourhood Partnership to meet on 6 June

Forth Neighbourhood Partnership meets on Wednesday

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Forth Neighbourhood Partnership meets on Wednesday 25 May at 7pm in the North Local Office on West Pilton Gardens. Continue reading Forth Neighbourhood Partnership meets on Wednesday

Granton Improvement Society: Mapping the way ahead?

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Dear All,
Please find attached an invitation to the gathering to hear and discuss the end report from the Granton Improvement Society Asset Mapping and Community Questionnaire.
The finance for this Asset Mapping was jointly provided by the Scottish Government Regeneration Unit and Community Ownership Support Services (COSS).
Linda Gillespie from COSS will address the gathering of community organisations and groups who were either involved in providing valuable information for the questionnaires or are aware of the importance of taking part in this vitally needed discussion about the challenges and opportunities we are facing in North Edinburgh.
Please use this email as an open invitation to invite those you feel would be interested and would contribute.
Best regards,
Barbara Robertson
on behalf of the Trustees of GIS

CAN newsletter

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Community Action North has produced a Spring newsletter (see below).

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If you’d like to help to make your community a better place to live – perhaps through CAN’s Action Groups, through training or placements or maybe you have some great ideas of your own – CAN would love to hear from you!

Can we improve North Edinburgh? Of course we CAN!

Email communityactionnorth@gmail.com for more info

Total Craigroyston – the final report

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The Total Craigroyston initiative came to a close at the end of March, as the localities model of the City of Edinburgh Council begins to be implemented. A ‘checking-out’ session was held on 23 March at Pilton Children’s and Youth Project to share with local people and workers the progress that had been made and to identify key messages for the locality management team (writes Tim Packer). Continue reading Total Craigroyston – the final report