Edinburgh’s incredible volunteers were among the hundreds of people recognised for their crucial contribution to local life at the Lord and Lady Provost’s Community Garden Party, which was held at Lauriston Castle recently. Continue reading Unsung heroes celebrated at Lauriston Castle
Lorne Community Association’s MELANIE WEIGANG (below, right) shares her experience of Saturday’s opening of parliament and Big Day Out: Continue reading The Local Hero experience
Please see below for agenda for Drylaw Telford Community Council’s AGM plus June 2016 monthly meeting.
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
Pick up the recycling habit this September
Cabinet Secretary for Environment Roseanna Cunningham has announced a week long effort to get Scotland recycling – and community groups are being encouraged to get involved.
Recycle Week will run from 12 to 18 September, co-ordinated by Zero Waste Scotland, it will aim to get everyone recycling more by raising awareness of the benefits and promoting easy ways to do more.
In the run up to the week local authorities, businesses, community groups, schools and colleges are being encouraged to get involved and take action to help boost recycling.
Launching the week this morning on World Environment Day (5 June), Ms Cunningham said: “We are lucky to be blessed with a stunning environment that is one of our most precious assets. It is crucial that we protect our resources and that’s key to our ambitions for a more circular economy in Scotland, where we keep products and materials in valuable use for longer.
“We’ve made great progress increasing recycling in recent years. For example in 2010 only 12% of households had food waste collections, while new figures show that has increased to 75%. It has never been easier to recycle your waste, but we still have further to go.
“People and communities the length and breadth of Scotland have a role to play and this September we’ll be encouraging more folk to pick up the recycling habit and do their bit for our environment.”
Iain Gulland, Chief Executive, Zero Waste Scotland, said: “Recycle Week is all about getting as many people in Scotland as possible aware of the need to recycle more and to recycle better.
“More people than ever are recycling, especially in relation to food waste, which has a huge environmental impact. But we can all be better at it, and during Recycle Week we’ll be highlighting the importance of doing our bit – providing advice on what and how to recycle best, exploding some of the myths in the process, with a series of high profile events and activities. I hope as many people as possible will get involved.”
For businesses, local authorities or community groups who want to get involved or host an event, information and support materials are available at http://www.recycleforscotland.com/recycle-week-2016
Community Action North has produced a Spring newsletter (see below).
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
Granton Community Orchard Garden is having some Tree Planting Days on Monday 7th through to & including Thursday 10 March. Fifty fruit and nut trees, (a couple going to the Community Hall) including apple, plum, cherry, pear, hazel and almond will be planted (writes Laura Munro). Continue reading Granton Community Orchard Garden: it’s time for trees!
‘ we are putting our money where our mouth is on Community Empowerment’ – Marco Biagi
A programme which is giving people the power to make decisions directly on spending in their areas will be rolled out to even more communities through a new £2 million investment. Continue reading YOU choose: £2 million for Community Choices fund
More than sixty local people braved rain, sleet and snow to attend the North Edinburgh Community Conference on Saturday. The Conference agreed that doing nothing is not an option and established Action Groups to address the challenges facing our community. Continue reading Community conference plans a way forward
Do your bit this Thursday!
