Tag: Leith Community Centre

Today: Leith Creative Sunday Session at Leith Community Centre

Today: the second in a series of free monthly Sunday Sessions where local residents, community activists and specialists can informally share information about what’s happening in Leith and in communities across Scotland.

This month Robin McAlpine, Director of the Common Weal ‘think and do tank’, shares some thoughts on a proposed new system of local democracy in Scotland. Continue reading Today: Leith Creative Sunday Session at Leith Community Centre

PoLHA raises funds for Kinsfolk Carers

Late (or is it very early?) Christmas gift for carers group

Kinsfolk Carers

Port of Leith Housing Association (PoLHA) held a post-Christmas raffle and raised £115 for Kinsfolk Carers.

The organisation, a drop-in centre and support group for kinship carers, is based at Leith Community Centre.

Kinship care is the raising of a child or children by relatives or close family friends because the biological parents are, for whatever reason, unwilling or unable to do so.

Keith Anderson, Chief Executive of PoLHA, said: ““Kinsfolk Carers does a fantastic job and is a lifeline for many carers. Being a Leith-based organisation, the same as us, we felt it was appropriate to donate the proceeds of our post-Christmas raffle to them.”