It’s nearly August, and that means our ANNUAL SUMMER BBQ! This year we’ll hold it on Sat 11th in our new big garden!
A date for your diaries; you’re welcome to invite your friends, families, and neighbours!
Granton Community Gardeners
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Free BBQ this Saturday with Granton Community Gardeners
Granton Community Gardeners BBQ & Open Day
Saturday 16 June 11am – 4pm
Community Garden 10 Wardieburn Road
Still a few tickets left for Community Ceilidh
It’s the popular community ceilidh at Royston Wardieburn Community Centre tomorrow night – and there’s still time to snap up a ticket! Don’t leave it too late, though … and remember admission is by ticket only
News from Granton Community Gardeners
Dear All,
Happy New Year!
Bit stormy and there’s snow, so there’s not so much gardening going on at the moment, though drop-ins are still on every Tuesday and Saturday when the weather is reasonable (dry and not frozen or blowing a gale!)
You’re all invited to our Burns Night Community Ceilidh! This has become a very popular regular annual event and this will be the 5th year.
BURNS NIGHT COMMUNITY CEILIDH
SATURDAY 3rd FEBRUARY. 5-9pm
ROYSTON WARDIEBURN COMMUNITY CENTRE
LIVE CEILIDH BAND AND OTHER PERFORMANCES FROM TALENTED LOCALS!
TICKETS £2. in advance only. (Volunteers, performers and under 5’s FREE) -tickets on sale from community centre reception.
Includes Food: Haggis Needs and Tatties (halal and veggie options available)
BYOB
We’ll need quite a few helpers at the event, especially in the teams setting up and decorating (it’s a big sports hall), and clearing everything up at the end. Please give us a shout if you’d be up for helping!
Also if you’d like to perform a song/dance/poem/etc. we have a few spaces available, either for traditional Scottish or other cultural performances. We know Granton has a lot of talent! Let us know if so …
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You’re also invited to our regular:
COMMUNITY MEALS
EVERY TUESDAY 5-7pm
GRANTON PARISH CHURCH HALL
(55 Boswall Parkway -entrance through gate on Wardierburn St East)
FREE -though help with washing up or donations are always welcome
ALL AGES WELCOME! (children with responsible adult)
We’ve been getting lots of good feedback on the food (thanks to our chef Jayne!) and it’s great to have somewhere warm to eat together. We also make extra meals that can be taken away at the end for family/friends/neighbours, especially if you know someone who’d particularly appreciate it.
Hope you’re all well,
Tom
Come to the community ceilidh
BURNS NIGHT COMMUNITY CEILIDH
Royston Wardieburn Community Centre
Saturday 3rd February, 5 – 9pm
Community meals resume in Granton
Tuesday 9 January, 5 – 7pm
Granton Parish Church, Boswall Parkway
Join Granton Community Gardeners for a Harvest Meal on Tuesday
Dear All,
It’s turning cold! Time to find a warm building, and cook lots of tasty food! You’re all invited to:
GRANTON COMMUNITY GARDENERS HARVEST MEAL 2017
TUESDAY, 21st November. Food served 5-7pm.
At Granton Parish Church (55 Boswall Parkway) -entrance on the corner of Wardieburn Street East.
FREE
ALL AGES WELCOME! (kids need to come with a responsible adult)
If you’d like to help out in any way, we need some people to help decorate, cook, serve food, or wash up. Please reply to this email or speak to Jayne or Tom if you’d like to volunteer!
You’re welcome to bring neighbours, friends and family.. (if you can RSVP it’s helpful to get an idea of numbers, but you can just show up!)
Big thank you to Granton Parish Church for letting us use their kitchen and hall!
This will be the first of a regular series of meals, every Tuesday (early evening) between now and 12th December. We have some funding from the Scottish Government to support this, so will be hosting as many meals as we can over the Winter.
We’re very glad to have a vegetarian chef working with us, Jayne, who also works as a cookery teacher, so she’ll be keeping us right and in charge of food! If anyone would like to help cook, it could be a good opportunity to share and learn some skills..
In other news:
Regular gardening drop ins are continuing, twice a week when the weather is ok. Meet 11am Tuesday or Saturday, at the garden on the corner of Boswall Parkway and Wardieburn Road. Yesterday we were planting garlic..
Bread club has been really popular, and is now happening roughly once a month. If you’d like to learn to bake or practice your skills, or would like to be contacted when we next have some of our own bread to sell, please get in touch! We’re about to mill our wheat from this year’s harvest, so we’ll have some more of our own flour to bake with.
We should hopefully have some new exciting updates to share fairly soon, watch this space!
Hope you’re all well,
Tom
Granton Community Gardeners
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Bereaved families to benefit from National Lottery investment
… and Lottery success for Granton Community Gardeners
A mother who lost her son in the most tragic of circumstances has today welcomed a National Lottery cash boost that will allow the Scottish Cot Death Trust to support many more bereaved parents to come together to share their experiences. Local project Granton Community Gardeners also received some welcome news this morning – the project is to receive over £78,000 to support and expand it’s programme of activities. Continue reading Bereaved families to benefit from National Lottery investment
Granton Primary School: from plot to plate!
Granton Primary School launched a new cooking club last week as part of the Food for Thought programme. Children made their own bread and butter and made their very own delicious minestrone soup! Continue reading Granton Primary School: from plot to plate!
Granton Community Gardeners to feature on STV appeal programme
GRANTON COMMUNITY GARDENERS: CHANGING LIVES!
STV Children’s Appeal – Changing Lives, Friday 17 March at 8pm on STV
In 2016, the STV Children’s Appeal raised an incredible £2,568,369 for Scotland’s children, thanks to the fundraising efforts of individuals, communities, businesses and celebrities across the country.
In a special programme presented by Andrea Brymer, STV presenters Sean Batty, David Farrell, Chris Harvey and Lucy Whyte visit some of the many projects that benefit from Appeal funding, including Granton Community Gardeners in Edinburgh, to find out how the money is having a real impact in communities across Scotland.
Viewers will also get a chance to catch up with some of the young people and families who featured in STV’s Appeal programming in 2016. STV Children’s Appeal – Changing Lives will air on Friday 17th March at 8pm.
The half hour programme shines a light on the fantastic work taking place across Scotland to help children and young people affected by poverty, focusing on four projects; Granton Community Gardeners in Edinburgh, Home-Start in Aberdeen, Bridging the Gap in Glasgow and One Parent Families Scotland in Falkirk.
Granton Community Gardeners was set up by a group of neighbours to cultivate a piece of wasteland in one of the poorest areas of the city. The £1,000 grant from the STV Children’s Appeal is now helping the project offer children’s gardening clubs as well as regular community meals to help combat isolation and provide healthy food at very little cost for local families living in poverty. STV News presenter Lucy Whyte joins local school children at the project as they learn how to grow and eat fresh and healthy food.
STV News presenter Chris Harvey visits charity Home-Start in Aberdeen, which is one of several local Home-Start charities in Scotland to benefit from over £81,000 from the STV Children’s Appeal, to find out how the funding is making a difference. The grant will help deliver Big Hopes Big Future, a project that works with children before they start school to ensure they have the necessary skills and behaviors in place to participate fully and benefit from their early years in education.
Live at Five’s David Farrell visits Bridging the Gap, an inspirational community project based in the Gorbals area of Glasgow, to discover how the community is joining together to help families in the local area. The project has received £2,000 from the STV Children’s Appeal to support its community services, which range from parenting support to weekly community meals to help reduce isolation among new residents, whether they are from other parts of Glasgow or other parts of the world.
STV’s weatherman and long term supporter of STV Children’s Appeal, Sean Batty pays a visit to Falkirk charity One Parent Families Scotland to learn more about the work of the Braes Family Centre, which has received £46,471 from the Appeal.
Based in the Upper Braes area of Falkirk, the family centre offers child care and outreach work in schools, including anger management training for teenagers who have been or are at risk of being excluded from school. The project is now hoping to launch a community hub offering a food scheme, a community garden, regular meals and a platform for local people to build relationships and break down barriers in the community.
Presenter Andrea Brymer said: “We are so incredibly lucky to have the support of the Scottish people who continually raise amazing amounts of money for the STV Children’s Appeal. Handing out the cheques and seeing the real difference the money can make is what makes every part of it worthwhile. We supported so many fantastic projects across Scotland in 2016 and we’re looking forward to sharing some of their stories in this programme.”
Elizabeth Partyka of the STV Children’s Appeal said: “We are extremely grateful to everyone that fundraised and donated to the STV Children’s Appeal in 2016. In this programme we highlight four of the many incredible projects that we’ve been able to support to show that every donation, big or small, helps make a difference in the lives of children and young people affected by poverty in Scotland.
“We are now in the midst of planning another fantastic line-up of fundraising events and programming for 2017 and with the continued support of communities across Scotland we hope to make this our best year yet.”
Since launching in 2011, the STV Children’s Appeal has raised over £13.7 million, with 722 big and small grants distributed to projects across all 32 local authority areas in Scotland, providing much needed support to over 62,000 children. The money raised is distributed to provide practical help like food and warm clothes; create opportunities for training and employability; and enable social and emotional support for those who need it most.
If you’re an individual or group that would like to help raise funds for children and young people living in poverty in Scotland with the STV Children’s Appeal, please get in touch with Natalie Wright at natalie.wright@stv.tv.