Tag: Granton Goes Greener

NEW: Sewing from Pattern at Granton Parish Church

STARTS MONDAY 3rd MARCH 10am – 12 noon

We have some exciting news about our FREE sewing classes at Granton Parish Church:

Now, on every first Monday of the month, we will be learning a particular sewing skill/ technique starting with PATTERN READING/SEWING FROM PATTERN.

We will be exploring all about patterns this coming Monday-03/03 between 10 am and 12 noon.

The class is a weekly ADULT ONLY drop in run by lovely Monika from Remode Collective with all materials provided and everyone could join us.

Any questions, email: anna@grantongoesgreener.org.uk

Weaving workshops in Granton

Happy New Year everyone!

We have reopened all our services this week at Granton Goes Greener and very excited to share great news: we will now be running FREE WEAVING WORKSHOPS at Granton Parish Church, on selected Wednesday evenings, starting from Wednesday 22nd and 29th January.

The workshops are sponsored by The City of Edinburgh Council as part of their annual small grant allocation🙏🙏🙏.

We provide all the materials and refreshments, the workshops are ADULTS ONLY and places allocated each week on first comes, first served basis.

Any questions-email: anna@grantongoesgreener.org.uk

Granton Goes Greener: Final class of 2024 of 2024 coming up on Monday

We would like to remind all our FREE sewing class participants that the final class this year is this coming Monday (16/12/2024) at the usual time ( 10-12 noon) at the East Hall of Granton Parish Church, Edinburgh.

We will be sharing some textile stories and asking everyone to bring a special piece of clothing they either made, got from a charity shop or have some personal attachment to 💚💚💚.

Our classes will start again on Monday 6th January 2025.

We would like to wish everyone MERRY CHRISMTAS AND ALL THE BEST IN 2025!

Thank you for being part of our talented and creative sewing community 🎄🎁🎉

Plant Share at Granton Goes Greener

We are getting ready for our final event of 2024 at Granton Goes Greener today – PLANT SHARE and PLANT HANGER MAKING WORKSHOP on Friday 6th December at Granton Parish Church.

As always, this is a completely FREE event organised in partnership with our friends from Communities’ Reduce Reuse & Recycle

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If you have some plants/ plant cuttings or seeds you would like to share, please bring them on the day.

Any questions-email: anna@grantongoesgreener.org.uk

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Granton Goes Greener: Beach Litter Pick this Saturday

Our Beach Cleaning event is only few days away …

Great opportunity to start October break and do something for the environment💚💚💚

We will be meeting by a green feather flag at the Brick Beach across the road from the Friends of Granton Castle Walled Garden and next to the pitt on Saturday 12/10 at 11 am.

Free picnic after the event.

Thank you to R2 project for their support and all the rubbish pickers they provided to Granton Goes Greener🙏🙏🙏

Granton Goes Greener organise another Beach Litter Pick

We are getting ready for another BEACH CLEANING event in partnership with @r2_hello and@ELREC_C3R.

The event will take place at the Brick Beach across the road from @grantoncastle on Saturday 12th October between 11am and 1 pm.

We will also have some picnic after!

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Tomorrow: BIG GIVEAWAY EVENT!

Only one day left to our BIG GIVEAWAY event at St Martin’s Community Resource Centre, Edinburgh💚💚💚

Please, remember about our basic rules for tomorrow:

-NO DONATIONS ON THE DAY,

-be mindful of others and only take what you need,

-bring your own bags.

Hope to see you tomorrow at 11 AM!

Granton Goes Greener: Free Books!

THE WEE BOOK BOX on BOSWALL PARKWAY

Have you seen our new FREE COMMUNITY LIBRARY at @GrantonParish Church?

It is located by the gate, just behind the bus stop on Boswall Parkway.

Decorated and looked after by our amazing volunteers, it has lots of great books to read on a rainy day!

Dr Bike session at Granton Church

FREE BIKE MAINTENANCE

We are very excited to be hosting a FREE bike maintenance session at Granton Parish Church on Friday 20th September (5-7PM)🚴‍♂️🚴‍♀️🚴.

The session is going to be delivered in partnership with North Edinburgh Arts, R2 and some amazing staff from Dr Bike.

If you bike or scoot, please, do feel free to come to check your wheels on the 20th September💪💪💪

Brick Beach Litter Pick

FRIDAY 9 AUGUST from 3 – 5pm

We are very excited to be organising another rubbish picking event at the Brick Beach ( this is the Beach across the road from Friends of Granton Castle Walled Garden) next Friday 9 August between 3 and 5 PM💚💚💚.

We will have enough rubbish pickers for everyone and a picnic with some delicious food provided. Huge THANK YOU to R2 for supporting this event and enabling us to buy more rubbish pickers.

Really happy to have some colleagues from Communities’ Reduce Reuse & Recyclejoining us on the day.

Any questions-email: anna@grantongoesgreener.org.uk