Friday 15th February 2 – 5pm
You are welcome to join Centipede and Grass Roots Remedies for another Wild Walk today from 2-5pm.
Meet at Old Kirk Muirhouse Church, Pennywell Gardens
Tag: Muirhouse Centipede Project
The Centipede’s back!
There IS such a thing as a free lunch!
MUIRHOUSE CENTIPEDE PROJECT
Open Lunch Meeting
Tuesday 28 April, 12 noon
North Edinburgh Arts
An informal (free!) lunch to chat about your ideas about how we can make use of the brownfield sites until the houses are built on them. We would love to see you there! Open to all.
Do you remember the wishing tree in 2014?
We asked local residents to tell us what they want to see happen in the area. Now with the endorsement of the City of Edinburgh Council, we are helping to make some of the wishes come true!
This is the start of a wide range of community activity across the brown field sites in Muirhouse. In partnership with the council, we are looking for ideas for temporary activities that brighten up the community until the houses get built.
Community Gardens are a great way to:
Improve health and wellbeing
Grow your own food
Meet new people
Socialise with friends
Learn new skills
Have fun and relax
And now you have the chance to create your own community garden with Centipede Project, then as part of the development of the empty sites by the City of Edinburgh Council. This includes the land near Pennywell Gardens and Muirhouse Avenue until the new houses get built.
How can you be involved?
Attend our free open lunch to share your ideas!
Tuesday 28 April
North Edinburgh Arts
12noon
Get in touch if you’re interested in being involved:
Email: centipedeproject@outlook.com
Telephone: 0131 315 2151 (ask for Joanne)
In Person: We are based in North Edinburgh Arts
Download our leaflets with all upcoming events here and here.
A Centipede spectacular: Muirhouse to light up on Friday!
I work with a community project called Centipede Project. We work with the community of Muirhouse to organise fun events that they would like to see take place. Our upcoming event is Luminous Muirhouse, please find all the information below.
What: Luminous Muirhouse will take place over one evening on 22 November between 4 – 6pm. It is a Glow in the Dark to scale blueprint of an ideal home spray-painted on the ground of a disused car park in the heart of Muirhouse.
This has been designed by Eileen Hall, Edinburgh-based architect in conjunction with pupils from Craigroyston High School. Glow in the dark flat wood furniture will be added to reflect some of the community’s creativity and desires for their area.
Kenny Bean, Scottish photographer has been taking portraits of locals in hands on workshops which will be projected on the church walls (outside).
A local Baton Twirling group will be performing with glow in the dark batons, group taught by Claire Chalmers.
Local musician, James Campbell, will be playing guitar.
Refreshments will be served.
Where: Opposite Muirhouse St. Andrew’s Parish Church on the brown field site, earmarked for development in 2014 Pennywell and the Church itself. Pennywell Medway as Pennywell Gardens is closed for roadworks.
When: Friday 22nd November 4 – 6pm.
Who: Centipede Project a locally based participative organisation, funded by Go For It fund. Artist Natalie Taylor, Project Co-ordinator Jo McArthur
Why: To bring the community together for fun events and empower local people to be active in their area.
With Thanks to: North Edinburgh Arts, Blacklight, Craigroyston Community High School, Edinburgh City Council, Zoo Arts, Tomorrow’s People, Muirhouse Youth Development Group, Muirhouse Millennium Centre, Don Bosco Club, Borja Prada, Muirhouse Library.
Joanne McArthur, Centipede Project
News from the Centipede
Pumpkin Carving this Thursday!
Muirhouse Community Shop on Pennywell Road’s the place to be for a free pumpkin carving and potato printing workshop. Session runs from 3 – 5pm – all welcome!
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Watch the birdie on Friday!
Muirhouse Centipede Project are holding two free portrait sessions on Friday (25 October): 10am – 12pm and 2-4pm at North Edinburgh Arts.
The photos will be taken by professional photographer, Kenny Bean (www.kennybean.co.uk). Each participant will be able to take away a free print of their photograph on the day as well as digital copies of their images if they bring in a memory stick.
The photographs will be used at a ‘Luminous Muirhouse’, a festival of light we are organising for November (see poster below).
The festival is to highlight the housing situation in Muirhouse. We will be painting the blue prints of a ‘dream home’ onto the ground using glow in the dark paint that will be lit up on the night. There will also be furniture made that will represent various community group’s dream home or garden, which will also be painted with the same glow in the dark paint. The home and furniture will be designed through consultations with local community groups.
The images will be projected onto a large wall on the night for the whole community to see.
The Friday sessions are drop-in – for further information call 0131 315 6408.
Joanne McArthur
Centipede Project
Enter the Muirhouse labyrinth!
Muirhouse St Andrews Parish Church and Muirhouse Centipede Project will formally launch the grass Labyrinth which the Centipede Project have installed in the church grounds at a fun day next month.
Linda Dunbar explained: “We are holding a fun day – Enter the Labyrinth – on Saturday 7 September, from 12noon – 3pm in the church grounds.
As well as lots of Labyrinth activities, there will all be the church’s annual community BBQ, teas, bouncy castles (including one big enough to take adults!), free activities, stalls, and a car-boot-stall type section.
Entry will be free, the BBQ and teas will be by donation, the bouncy castles will be 50p a go, and the stalls will have goods for sale. On top of all of this there will be a number of free activities and crafts, AND the will be free helium balloons.
We are also looking for community groups to come along and take advantage of free tables to promote their work, raise funds, meet people etc etc. These spaces are free for community groups, but need to be booked by emailing
This is going to be a great day and we hope lots of folk from the community will come along and share in the fun.
If anyone wants to book one of the car-boot-style tables (the will be NO room on site for cars themselves), they will cost £7, and can be booked by emailing
Complaint over LACK of council cuts in ‘forgotten estate’
Usually, community groups and voluntary organisations are up in arms over council cuts to services in their area. However one Muirhouse man is on the warpath over a lack of cuts!
TRIM (Tenants and Residents in Muirhouse) member Robert Pearson has written to the local council team to demand action over the state of local green spaces – weeds, long grass and the general state of the area.
He said: “Yet again I feel it necessary to email you regarding Muirhouse, I am absolutely fed up with the way Muirhouse is being left to rot by you, Edinburgh City Council. It was you who caused the area to fall apart in the first place and now you are leaving us in a mess.”
He goes on: “Back in March this year local children join the Centipede project and planted over 2000 bulbs which spelt Muirhouse Is Home (pictured below). It looked fantastic, the children loved it and it was never vandalised. Unfortunately we are not able to see it anymore as the grass and weeds have taking over the place. Walking around the estate the green areas are all overgrown and basically in a mess; why is this happening again? Does this happen elsewhere in the city? Or does it just happen in the forgotten estate?”
North Neighbourhood Team Business Manager Mandy Rudden said she has requested information from her Regeneration and Task Force colleagues and will update Robert when this has been received.
Centipede jumps for joy following grant news
Go For It, Centipede! Funding boost for Muirhouse Project
Muirhouse Centipede Project has received a grant of £60,000 from the Church of Scotland to build on it’s successes over the last year. The local project’s founder Linda Dunbar takes up the story:
The Centipede project has received the great news that we have been awarded £60,000 over three years from the Church of Scotland’s GoForIt Fund. This will enable the Centipede to continue on its journey and explore more activities. We are incredibly grateful for the support of the church in recognising the collaborative work already undertaken, and the value and potential of the people of the area. We still have to raise more money and are in the process of fund-raising – we would like to be able to match the £60K grant. The steering group has a planning day coming up in June where we will be figuring out how best to hear the voices of the community, and what THEY want to see the Centipede doing. If anyone has suggestions they can email them in to:
centipedeproject@gmail.com
If anyone would like to offer financial support to the project, they can get in touch via the same email.
On a personal note, can I thank the folk of Muirhouse for their enthusiasm for the community and their great spirit. It has been a joy to work with them all, and I look forward to the new centipede events, whatever they turn out to be. If folk want to see a short film highlighting just some of the Pilot Project events they can find it at:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCcd8BQg13U&feature=youtu.be
Centipede Big Bash
Grey skies didn’t deter revellers of all ages going outdoors to join in Muirhouse Centipede Project’s Big Easter Bash last Friday. Everybody had a good time – and not a single case of frostbite was recorded!
Centipede Big Easter Bash is postponed
Muirhouse Centipede Project’s ‘Big Easter Bash’, which was to have been held on Easter Sunday, has been POSTPONED.
Organiser Linda Dunbar explained: “Given the state of the ground and the snow forecast over the weekend we have taken the decision to postpone the Centipede Project’s Big Easter Bash. It is not the weather for planting or egg rolling. The event will be rescheduled – hopefully later in April, and we’ll be in touch as soon as we have a new date.”
North Edinburgh Arts Director Kate Wimpress added: “I think this is the best decision, and we have circulated this on our Facebook/website/email networks. I’ll look forward to working with you on the rescheduled date.”
The cancellation of the event is a disappointment, but the Big Bash will be something to look forward to when (if?) the sun eventually starts shining again!
Young snappers pick up 121212 prizes
Muirhouse Centipede Project have kindly supplied a photograph of Gemma and Garry Pearson receiving their prizes from Muirhouse St Andrew’s locum minister (and lead Centipede!) Linda Dunbar.
There’s still time to see the exhibition before it finds a permanent home at Muirhouse St Andrew’s – check out previous 121212 post for details.