Tag: Drylaw Neighbourhood Centre

Hopes rise for Drylaw Neighbourhood Centre

Some funding secured but the fight goes on

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Drylaw Neighbourhood Centre has received a boost ahead of a crucial funding meeting next week. It’s now recommended that the Centre WILL receive funding from Health and Social Care – albeit with a cut. Centre chairman Alex Dale says that’s welcome news – but stressed that the fight to save the centre is not over yet.

The Centre’s management committee received an update from Inverleith councillor Lesley Hinds yesterday. She told Drylaw Community Association:

“Following my discussion with Councillor Ricky Henderson, Convener of Health and Social Care, I am pleased to inform you the Health and Social Care Committee meeting on 26th January will recommend funding for Drylaw Neighbourhood Centre.

I would be grateful if you could pass on this information to Board members and users of Drylaw Neighbourhood Centre.

The Children and Families Committee will make a decision on your other grant on 11th February and I will be strongly arguing for a grant to be awarded from this Committee.”

Welcoming the news, Drylaw Telford Community Association chair Alex Dale said: “It’s very good news for Drylaw Neighbourhood Centre that Health & Social Care has decided to revisited our Grant Applicant and have decided to recommend for approval a grant award based at last year’s level minus 4.1 %.

“This is a positive step forward for the Centre’s future and its users  but the future of the centre will not be secured until the Children and Families report back on 11 February with a positive recommendation for the centre.

“On behalf of the Management committee I would like to thank the City of Edinburgh Inverleith Councillors who fought on our behalf to persuade their colleagues and council officers to reinstate this stream of funding and their ongoing support to secure funding from Children & Families.

“I would also like to thank our centre users and the community who took the time to support the centre via our on–line petition and those who took time to pop into the centre and sign our paper version – this very much appreciated but the campaign to secure the future of the centre goes on.”

Drylaw Neighbourhood Centre facing closure

Time running out for award-winning Centre

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Drylaw Neighbourhood Centre seems set to close following confirmation that funding to run the Centre is to be slashed. Five members of staff will lose their jobs if the Centre – the only purpose-built community centre in the Inverleith ward – closes after having served the local community for twenty years. Continue reading Drylaw Neighbourhood Centre facing closure

New Year, new location?

Office space in Drylaw Neighbourhood Centre 

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Drylaw Neighbourhood Centre have a room to Let.  

It is 20.5 sq m, ample space for 2-3 work stations along with phone/ broadband and connections / bright airy room with lots of cupboard space / Conference and meeting rooms available on site / free parking and close to bus routes / Available soonest , rent negotiable

Interested? Contact Roy Douglas for more info on 315 4989 or email roy@drylawnc.org.uk

Drylaw Neighbourhood Centre AGM tomorrow

Wednesday 2 December 7pm

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Drylaw Neighbourhood Centre AGM

Are you interested in being more active in your local community and shaping the future of your Neighbourhood Centre?

Drylaw Telford Community Association is looking for local people to join the Centre’s management committee.

Come along to the meeting tomorrow evening to find out more – and there are refreshments and bingo after the meeting too!

 

Drylaw Telford Community Association AGM

Wednesday 2 December at 7pm in Drylaw Neighbourhood Centre

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You are invited to the Drylaw Telford Community Association Annual General Meeting on Wednesday 2 December at 7pm in Drylaw Neighbourhood Centre (off Groathill Road North). Continue reading Drylaw Telford Community Association AGM

What do you think of Drylaw Neighbourhood Centre?

Drylaw Neighbourhood Centre survey

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Are you are a regular visitor to Drylaw Neighbourhood Centre? Have you attended groups or events in the Centre in the past? Or maybe you’ve never heard of Drylaw Neighbourhood Centre!

Whatever your experience, Drylaw Neighbourhood Centre want to hear from you – there’s a free entry to a prize draw for everyone who completes the survey (below):

https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/DrylawNC

 

Work starts on Drylaw skatepark

‘This skatepark is an excellent asset for the local community and I hope that it will encourage the people of Drylaw, and further afield, to become more active’ – Sarah Robertson, sportscotland

This week sees construction commence on a new £200,000 skatepark in Easter Drylaw Park.

The new skatepark is the result of a collaborative project between the Drylaw Neighbourhood Centre, Edinburgh & Lothians Greenspace Trust and local community organisations to develop, fund and deliver a new skatepark in Easter Drylaw Park.

The project was initiated by young people from the local community and was then taken forward via consultation and first stage funding for the development of a feasibility study, by the Drylaw Neighbourhood Centre, closely supported by the local community council, Inverleith Neighbourhood Partnership and sportscotland

The inspiration for the project came from the citywide skate park created in Saughton Park which has shown how successful a skatepark can be, and which has led to calls for a more local and convenient facility in the north of the city.

The new facility has received funding from Inverleith Neighbourhood Partnership and the City of Edinburgh Council and secured £100,000 match funding from the Scottish Government’s Legacy 2014 Active Places Fund.

The Greenspace Trust (ELGT) has overseen the project management of the skatepark since planning permission was granted in early 2013, and has taken the lead in developing and securing funding to ensure the delivery of the project for the community. The final elements of funding were secured by ELGT earlier this year and the construction put out to tender in the summer. With the final design elements agreed, and necessary planning conditions met, such as drainage, work can now start.

50% of the costs of the skatepark are being met by an award from the Legacy 2014 Active Places Fund. The £10 million Legacy 2014 Active Places Fund has enable communities across Scotland to benefit from the Commonwealth Games held in Glasgow, by providing more and better opportunities to be active.

Sarah Robertson, Project Manager from sportscotland, said: “The new Drylaw skatepark is a fantastic example of what can be achieved by various organisations investing resources and working together and we are delighted to have invested £100,000 from the Legacy 2014 Active Places Fund.

“Together with our partners, sportscotland are committed to building and supporting the development of a world-class sporting system at all levels, and this project will provide a great facility which will be available for the whole of the community to use.

“This skatepark is an excellent asset for the local community and I hope that it will encourage the people of Drylaw, and further afield, to become more active”.

The match funding is from Inverleith Neighbourhood Partnership and City of Edinburgh Council -Culture and Sport. The new skatepark helps deliver the Neighbourhood Partnership’s key priorities of engaging young people, increased opportunities for physical activity and encouraging better use of green spaces.

Local Inverleith councillor Lesley Hinds, who chairs the skatepark working group, said:  “I am pleased the Drylaw Skatepark work has started. It has been a long road to get to this point and credit is due to the young people and local organisations who have worked tirelessly to make sure this project happened.”

Edinburgh & Lothians Greenspace Trust (ELGT) works across Edinburgh and the Lothians to create, improve and promote parks and greenspaces, and to provide opportunities for communities to be more active for leisure and travel.

Ross Woodside, ELGT’s Projects Manager, said: “We are pleased that the much-anticipated skatepark has reached the construction stage. We are confident that it will be a well-used local asset and make real contribution to more sporting opportunities in the area.”

The park is being designed and built by Freestyle Skateparks, the UK’s oldest and largest skatepark design-and-build company. Construction is scheduled to last around ten weeks.