Counting down the days to the annual Stockbridge jamboree ….
Stockfest runs from 20 -27 September this year and there are loads of activities for the whole family to enjoy. For details of what’s on click on the link below
or visit www.stockfestedinburgh.com
You won’t be disappointed!
Spoilt for choice?
There are lots of fun events happening in North Edinburgh tomorrow – see previous posts about West Pilton Play Day, new open air exhibition space at North Edinburgh Arts, Granton gardeners community BBQ, afternoon tea at Holy Cross in D’Mains – and now there’s another to add …
The Salvation Amy’s Eagle Lodge on Ferry Road is holding a Fair from 2 – 4pm: all welcome!
Spoilt for choice – and then there’s the small matter of a wee Edinburgh derby on Sunday too …!
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Also:
Our Health, Our Care, Our Future
Friday 22 August, 9.30am – 12.00noon
NHS Lothian are currently consulting on their Draft Strategic Plan for 2014-2024. EVOC is delighted to host a thinkSpace event to look at the plan and its proposals
Visit http://www.evoc.org.uk/thinkspace for full information and to register for the event
Meet Ross and Aaron, Sainsbury’s biggest jumpers!
Ross jumped a magnificent 4.5m during last week’s Big Jump event at Sainsbury’s Blackhall, and his wee brother Aaron wasn’t far behind – he recorded an impressive distance of 4.2m to finish in a tie for second.
Organisers of the annual Davidsons Mains Children’s Gala will be keeping an anxious eye on weather forecasts this morning.
However the forecasts are certainly looking good for today so fingers crossed for a day of sun and fun!
The Parade leaves the Green at 1130am, progressing along Main Street, past Tesco and on to Lauriston Castle. The crowning of the Gala King and Queen will take place at around midday on the stage and this will be followed by a full programme of activities until 5pm.
The MS Therapy Centre’s latest fundraiser – the Mad Hatters’ Tea Party – has raised nearly £4,500.
The Centre, which celebrates its 30th anniversary this year, called on locals to host a tea party and wear a crazy hat last month to help raise much needed funds and make a difference to all those in the Lothians living with multiple sclerosis.
Nancy Campbell, Operations Manager at the Centre, said: “Hitting nearly £4,500 is a fantastic sum of money and will make such a difference to those attending the Centre. Nearly 2,500 people in the Lothians live with the debilitating condition and our Centre provides a life line for many. We are there for practical and emotional support and only exist because of the generosity of others.”
Nancy added: “I would like to thank local residents, businesses, community groups and schools who took time out of their busy days to bake and host tea parties.”
Liberal Democrat South Scotland MSP Jim Hume joined in the tea party celebrations. He said: “I was delighted to visit Nancy and her team at the MS Therapy Centre Lothian again and to celebrate their 30th anniversary at the mad hatter tea party. The Centre provides a range of therapeutic and peer support to people living with multiple sclerosis, all the while improving the quality of life for its users.”
The Centre is hoping the tea parties become an annual event and will be looking for tea party hosts again in 2015.
The MS Therapy Centre is a charity providing help and practical therapies such as physiotherapy, complementary therapies and oxygen therapy as well as emotional support and advice. For further information go to www.mstc-lothian.org.uk or call Louise Liddell at MS Therapy Centre on 0131 554 5384.
Table Top Sale A4 December 2013
Come on down to West Pilton Neighbourhood Centre to take part in two special events this month:
Thursday 19 December 11 – 3pm
TABLE TOP SALE
Do you have items in your cupboards you don’t want any more?
Then book a table at West Pilton Neighbourhood Centre’s Table Sale!
If you are looking for something extra for Christmas then come along and browse the stalls
Soup, tea and coffee will also be on sale
Tables are £2 and can be booked by calling into the Centre or phone Linda on 0131 551 3194
Friday 20 December 1 – 3.30pm
CHRISTMAS TEA DANCE
Come and join in the festive fun with live music, dancing, singing, tea, coffee and mince pies
Tickets only £1
West Pilton Neighbourhood Centre
19 West Pilton Grove, Edinburgh
Tel: 0131 551 3194
There wasn’t a spare seat in the theatre for North Edinburgh’s Big Night Out, organised by local group Power to the People, at North Edinburgh Arts last week. Over a hundred people from North Edinburgh and beyond enjoyed an evening of song, poetry, dance and drama.
Power to the People evolved from North Edinburgh Social History Group, local people who trawled through a huge volume of archive material to produce ‘Never Give Up’, a history of community activism in North Edinburgh.
Power to the People took this a stage further, and last Friday’s event was not only a celebration of the succesful conclusion of the course but also an opportunity to encourage wider activism.
Guests and visitors had an opportunity to visit art and photography exhibitions and view a video slideshow in North Edinburgh Arts’ galleries and cafe area before taking their seats in the theatre
There was a raft of strong performances on a special evening. North Edinburgh’s very own Timebank Choir got the show off to a rousing start and this was followed by poetry from Ian Moore and Anna Hutchison, two founding members of both the Social History and Power to the People groups.
If the early part of the programme was dominated by North Edinburgh’s more mature activists, the stage belonged to the next generation when students from Craigroyston Community High School performed a medley of music, prose and drama which almost brought the house down. The future’s bright …
The Craigroyston kids were a near impossible act to follow, but North Edinburgh’s Womens International Group did just that with a moving interpretation of a work by Pastor Niemoller.
The evening was not limited to performers from North Edinburgh, of course, and Scots machair Liz Lochhead was a very welcome guest. Scotland’s national poet remains as popular as ever and national treasure Liz delighted an appreciative audience with some of her earliest poems as well as her latest epistle – written especially for a cinema opening the following evening and hot off the press. North Edinburgh heard it first!
The talented Penny Stone brought a memorable evening to a fitting finale by leading the audience – young and not quite so young – in a medley of popular protest songs.
CLD worker Lynn McCabe, who supports the Power to the People group, said: “The group wanted the Big Night Out to achieve a number of things: celebrate the end of the Power to the People course and share what we’ve learned with a wider audience. We also wanted people to have a good night out and to enjoy the entertainment.
“The Big Night Out also gave us an opportunity to promote the arts and to raise awareness about the Referendum – we hope the event will promote further discussion and debate.
“It was great that the young people from Craigroyston played such an active part on the night and we would like to attract more young people as well as others of all ages who are not already involved.
Our hope was that the audience would leave feeling inspired, motivated to get involved and more committed to equality and defending what’s important. The Power to the People group wanted to get the message across that change is possible, that there is an alternative and that we can change the world!”
The group would like to thank:
The group will evaluate the Big Night Out when they next meet – changing the world may take a little longer!
Some Big Night Out pictures:
STOP PRESS: Joel Venet has prouced a short Big Night Out highlights video. You’ll find it on YouTube at North Edinburgh Fights Back – it’s called Celebrate2
Scottish Council of Jewish Communities Interfaith Week Event
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What’s Being Jewish in Scotland got to do with YOU?!
SCoJeC, the Scottish Council of Jewish Communities, is running an event in Edinburgh as part of Interfaith Week. The event will start with a kosher lunch and introductions around the table, followed by a talk about the recent Scottish Government-funded inquiry on ‘Being Jewish in Scotland’.
This qualitative inquiry involved conversations with around 300 Jewish people all over Scotland about the experience of being Jewish in this country; what’s good about it, what’s not so good, what’s changed, whether they felt they had ever been treated differently because of being Jewish, and whether they had any recommendations or requests for the Scottish Government or other authorities which would improve their lives.
The presentation will be followed by an open conversation and discussion about the experiences of being a minority – or a majority – in Scotland. Everyone – Jewish and non-Jewish – is welcome to join in, and a kosher lunch will be served. In the spirit of Interfaith Week, we want to share the questions we asked of Scotland’s Jews with people of different minorities and with different beliefs, to see how these questions resonate with other groups.
The event will take place at
University of Edinburgh Chaplaincy, Potterow, 52 Bistro Square
on Tuesday 26 November at 1 p.m. – 3.30 p.m.
All are welcome. For more information or to RSVP please contact Fiona Frank
email Fiona@scojec.org, tel 07779 206522.
Scottish Council of Jewish Communities
222 Fenwick Road, Glasgow G46 6UE
tel: 07779 206522
scojec@scojec.org
Are you involved in a small community project or group that is looking for funding? Forth and Inverleith Neighbourhood Partnerships have organised a
‘Meet the Funders’ event
on Thursday 28 November from 12 – 3pm
at St Serf’s Parish Church Hall off Ferry Road.
The drop-in event will be an informal opportunity to meet a variety of small funders such as Big Lottery and Sports Scotland, SCVO and Bank of Scotland Foundation as well as various City of Edinburgh Council funds including Neighbourhood Partnership Community Grants Fund and Waste Aware Fund, with opportunities to find out more about what type of things these organisations will fund and what the closing dates are.
This event will be of particular interest to small groups who do not have access to major funding sources.
The following funding organisations have confirmed that they will be attending – will you? If you do plan to attend, please contact jim.pattison@edinburgh.gov.uk . Refreshments will be available.
Big Lottery Fund
The Melting Pot
Community Sports Hubs
Community Grants Fund (City of Edinburgh Council)
Forth Neighbourhood Partnership
Youth Business Scotland
Pass It On
Edinburgh4Community
SCVO
Bank of Scotland Foundation
Royal Bank of Scotland Foundation
Waste Aware Grants (CEC)
Business Gateway
Climate Challenge Fund
Activcity Tenants Grants (CEC) In Kind Direct
The Big Lunch
Prime (Equivalent of Youth Business Scotland for over 50s)
Sported Sportscotland
Visit Forth Neighbourhood Partnership website at: http://www.edinburghnp.org.uk/page/Forth.aspx
