CPR WEEK 8 – 12 MAY
Would you know how to save a life?
Come along to the Community Shop on Pennywell Road
Monday – Thursday 2 – 4pm
Friday 11am – 1pm
to learn CPR and you could learn to save life.
Visits from ambulance service, fire service, police and more!
Please contact TRIM Facebook or Jo (Muirhouse LinkUp worker) on 0131 315 6405 for more information
Can you help out in the Community Shop on Pennywell Road?
Why not volunteer with the award winning team at Muirhouse Community Shop?
Can you spare a minimum of 3 hours per week?
Do you want to help your own community?
Over 300 residents visit the shop each and every week and with your support we can deliver even more!
Contact the shop today and find out more
The question was asked: “Do you know a young Scot who goes the extra mile every day but never asks for any recognition or reward? Someone who has overcome difficult circumstances or risen to a challenge? Someone who may have achieved something in the face of adversity? We are calling you to nominate an unsung young Scot who deserves this award.”
We found out that our own Josh Hardwick, who is 17 years old andfrom Muirhouse, was nominated for this award because he qualified on every level – and we have now been told that he is now a FINALIST.
Josh is the leader of a group of volunteers who set up the TRIM & Friends of West Pilton Community Shop in Pennywell Road and has grown into the job to progress to Manager.
In our area where there are families who need help, Josh provides a multitude of help from our shop. This includes food parcels from our Foodbank, cheaper food to buy, and cookery classes; he runs the award winning Dr Bike Club on Saturday mornings, that offers repairs and advice to cyclists; assistance through the Community Hub, for those with drug and alcohol issues; and to those needing advice regarding Benefits, Housing and community issues.
A major part of his skills are around Health issues. Josh is a trained First Aider and has been trained to use the community defibulator which is also available, in an emergency, from the shop. He also facilitated a mass CPR week across the community.
Josh is charming, has a mannerly personality, and a caring nature so he is great at dealing with people from all walks of life. He has attended meetings with Muirhouse Link Up, Save a Life Scotland and TRIM to discuss and arrange.
“We are so proud of him and wish him every success in these awards. Having said that we do stress that he doesn’t need to win – he is our Unsung Hero and we so appreciate him!”
Barbara Beaufoy
Secretary, TRIM and Friends of West Pilton
Community Shop to remain closed after holidays
The Community Shop on Pennywell Road will remain closed for at least the next month to allow repairs and redecoration to take place.
In a statement on the TRIM (Tenants & Residents in Muirhouse) Facebook page, shop organisers explain:
TRIM would like to make all residents and partners aware that Muirhouse Community Shop will remain CLOSED until further notice.
Volunteers and Muirhouse Link Up will meet this week to discuss a few new ideas for the shop, this includes a mini make over, a fresh look at what is stocked and who we will invite in to the shop ( Organisations / Groups ) –
Your community shop has now been open over 2 years and has served the community well, it is hoped that with a mini make over it will continue to serve you until such time a supermarket or similar opens.
The shop is fully dependant of Volunteers, NO staff get paid and NO profit is ever made from the shop.
Please share this with your friends and family, we may be asking for some support to get the shop looking good as it’s a little old and tired
Of course you can still conatct the shop and TRIM 24/7 via the mobile telephone 07914 942 026
A final reminder of the local collection points for donations to the Edinburgh Direct Aid Syria appeal (the container leaves in SIX days):
WHAT’S NEEDED by EDA:
NO MORE CLOTHES, SHOES or BEDDING!
Thank you, but we have been overwhelmed by the generosity of response – our container is almost bulked out. If you have already collected goods on our list – padded jackets, welly boots, etc., – do bring them in. If we can’t send them now, we’ll send them later – but please don’t organise any new collections at the moment!
BUT DEFINITELY:
(new!) underwear
toothpaste
toothbrushes
soap
detergent
toilet paper
nappies
sanitary towels
wipes
and for schools and vocational training:
notebooks, A4 paper
pens/pencils, boardwriters
sewing materials, wool
EDA WAREHOUSE OPENING TIMES:
Wednesday and Saturdays until SEPTEMBER 23
11:00am to 3pm
Contact Ann at 0781 494 9468
PC Helen Lyon will be at Muirhouse Community Shop tomorrow (Tuesday) from 11am -12 noon taking your concerns and queries. If you have the chance please feel free to pop in and speak to her tomorrow. #StrongerNorth
Good, healthy recipes produced by local cooks
Everyone’s invited to the launch of the community Cook and Taste recipe book at Muirhouse Community Shop, Pennywell Road on Wednesday from 111am – 1pm!.
We’ll be cooking and giving free delicious tasters, recipe books and information about food related activities in the area. The Time Bank Temptations Choir will also be performing on the day.
All the recipes in the book have been tried, tasted and have proved really successful. “This is good and really tasty. I will try to make it at home”, said Joan, one of the community shop volunteers when she tried the ragu Bolognese. Susan, one of the local volunteers who decided to share her macaroni cheese recipe said: “It’s lovely; quick and easy to cook in the house”.
The recipes in this book come from a partnership project between Pilton Community Heatlh Project (PCHP) and the Muirhouse Community Shop (MCS).
Memes Molina, Food Development Worker at PCHP, said “It’s been a great opportunity to work in partnership with the shop’s volunteers, to do some cooking with local people and discover new recipes with them. This launch is to celebrate the effort and commitment of everyone involved. For some of the volunteers it has been a while since they last cooked at home but people got involved and shared their delicious dishes. PCHP has put together a recipe book called Cook and Taste, where we can now share a selection of these recipes with the local community.”
PCHP’s Food team works with volunteers and local partners to help local people develop their understanding and knowledge to eat well on a budget, including cooking skills, budgeting, meal planning and wider food issues.
PCHP does this by running cooking sessions, lots of ‘cook and taste’ sessions in the community, delivering ‘bite size’ sessions on eating well and much more. People can get involved by joining one of the groups, becoming a volunteer or attending Food for Thought Forum meetings.
PCHP also gives the local community access to food related training courses to develop their skills. We are now able to support others to deliver quick and easy healthy eating sessions using our nutrition toolkit.
http://pchp.org.uk/projects/food
The partnership work between PCHP and MCS started as way to promote healthy eating in the area, in response to the needs of some local people and the shop volunteers.
Everyone can come along to the launch. If you want more information about PCHP activities or other food related activities in North Edinburgh, phone PCHP on 013 551 1671 or visit the website.
Inverleith St Serf’s Church and Goldenacre Fairtrade won two Lord Provost of Edinburgh Fair Trade awards last night: the Fair Trade Achievement Award and Fair Trade Faith Community Award.
The awards celebrate the long term commitment to fairtrade and more recent innovations, including their support of the Muirhouse Community Shop on Pennywell Road.
Inverleith St Serf’s Church’s fairtrade connection started almost 20 years ago, with Ian and Alison Craddock at Inverleith Church and Bridgid Donald at St Serf’s Church establishing fairtrade stalls.
With the merger of the two churches into Inverleith St Serf’s Church there was an opportunity to expand the stall and provide greater choice of items for sale for members of the congregation and the wider community – the charity aim to have new items on the stall every fortnight.
The stall has been in the Traidcraft ‘Top Seller’ category for thee years and has seen orders of fairtrade items increase from £3,315 in 2010 to £7,075 in 2014, principally through Traidcraft, One World Shop and Hadeel. There has been a year on year increase in sales over this period.
The stall set up a Twitter feed early 2013 (@FairtradeStall), tweeting about fairtrade and UK and global poverty and other topical issues aimed at reaching a wider audience (e.g. local events, news, music, literature, photography). Through this social media activity the stall established a link with Tenants and Residents in Muirhouse (TRIM).
Two large donations from the stall helped TRIM during their first year (late 2013). Early in 2014 the Inverleith St Serf’s Church Kirk Session agreed to support TRIM, with retiring collections for TRIM during 2014, and food donations received by the stall going to TRIM for the foreseeable future. Half the stall’s 2014 profits will be given to TRIM.
This brings cash donations from Inverleith St Serf’s Church to TRIM to £1546.82 during 2014, going towards equipment, training and extra food purchases for the shop.
TRIM splits food donations between their foodbank and community shop. Accordingly the Inverleith St Serf’s Church congregation can use the stall to support third world producers (through purchases) and local causes (through donations).
Food donations range from tinned goods brought in from home to fairtrade items from the stall (e.g. pasta, rice, tea, fruit pots and much more). These donations are distributed right from the heart of the Muirhouse community, ensuring rapid and effective distribution to those who need them most and the link between the church and community shop has continued to grow.
The Goldenacre stall is now currently run by Graham Mackenzie – and supported by three generations of the Mackenzie family! – at Inverleith St Serf’s Church.
Goldenacre Fairtrade would be happy to discuss their innovative work with other churches, community organisations and local media.
More information about the Goldenacre Fairtrade nomination submission can be found here:
https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=914215261922130&id=562886720388321
Volunteers at Muirhouse Community Shop have illustrated the season of goodwill by creating hand-crafted Christmas gifts for people in need.
Muirhouse Community Shop was asked by Fiona Henderson, Community Access to Schools worker at Craigroyston Community High School, to hold a painting session to support the ‘Empty Bowls’ initiative.
Empty Bowls, an international grassroots effort to fight hunger, was founded in the USA. The basic premise is simple: potters and other craftspeople, educators and others work with the community to create handcrafted bowls. Guests are invited to a simple meal of soup and bread. In exchange for a cash donation, guests are asked to keep a bowl as a reminder of all the empty bowls in the world. The money raised is donated to an organization working to end hunger and food insecurity – Empty Bowls has raised millions of dollars to donate to hunger-fighting organizations.
Volunteers at Muirhouse Community Shop were delighted to support the cause and local people enthusiastically got to work to decorate bowls which were later displayed in both the Community Shop and the High School.
The Muirhouse bowls were then filled with goodies donated by the local community and they’ve now being wrapped and will be donated to people in need.
Christmas can be a very tough time when you don’t have much, so these heartwarming little gifts will bring some welcome seasonal cheer into some local homes this Christmas.
For further information on Empty Bowls visit
www.emptybowls.net
Pictures by TRIM
