Tag: Edinburgh Leisure

Join dementia friendly walk at Botanic Gardens

A relaxed, informal information afternoon and dementia friendly walk day for people to learn more about services for people living with dementia, is being held at the Royal Botanical Gardens on Monday, 28 August. Continue reading Join dementia friendly walk at Botanic Gardens

Hours of fun for the under 5s on 5 August

Edinburgh Leisure is hosting a series of FREE under 5’s open days on Saturday 5th August at:

Craiglockhart Leisure and Tennis Centre: Tennis (afternoon)

The Meadows: Tennis (morning)

Royal Commonwealth Pool: Gym nippers, swimming, dance, Jump & Dive (morning), magician, balloon modelling, tattoos, hook a duck

Tumbles at Portobello: Gym nippers (morning)

Experts agree the best way to help kids enjoy healthy, active lives is to start as you mean to go on. And at Edinburgh Leisure there are lots of activities that wee ones, and their parents, can enjoy starting from birth through to 5 years old.

There’ll be 25-minute taster sessions to try out in swimming, gym nippers, jump and dive, tots tennis and dance for the toddlers.  It’s possible to try just one or a variety but booking in advance is recommended.

Click here to see the full programme list and time slots available.

To book your space, contact the relevant centres:

Craiglockhart Tennis and Leisure Centre
0131 443 0101
info.cltc@edinburghleisure.co.uk

The Meadows
07766 774529
0131 443 0101
info.cltc@edinburghleisure.co.uk

Royal Commonwealth Pool
0131 667 7211
info.rcp@edinburghleisure.co.uk

Tumbles at Portobello
0131 669 0878
info.tumbles@edinburghleisure.co.uk

 

 

Summer Pass: everything you need for a sport-filled summer

With Edinburgh’s numerous festivals about to begin, festival goers and workers can keep up their energy levels and enjoy their fittest summer ever.  Edinburgh Leisure has launched its ‘Summer Pass’, with everything you need for a sport filled summer, with something for everyone to keep active and healthy throughout the heady days of the festivals.  Continue reading Summer Pass: everything you need for a sport-filled summer

Edinburgh Leisure launches fundraising challenge

Edinburgh Leisure is inviting people to sign up to their first ever public fundraising event – the ‘Jump In Swim Challenge’, which begins on 1 September. Swimmers who take up the challenge will stroke, crawl and paddle for 30 days whilst raising vital funds to give local nursery school pupils affected by poverty the chance to learn to swim, an opportunity that many of these children do not have. Continue reading Edinburgh Leisure launches fundraising challenge