Our new walking group starts this week!
We will meet every Thursday at 10am for a walk around the local area.
There’s no need to book, and for more information please call or text the Link Up team on 07493876130.
LINK UP at North Edinburgh Arts is running an Activate course in partnership with the University of Glasgow.
This is a foundation course in community development. It is open to community members young and old, in the North West Locality. The course is fully funded.
There a will be an online information session on 11th February with the course beginning in person on 18th February: 9:30 – 1pm for 12 weeks (times and venue to be confirmed).
Spaces are limited if you have any interest or require further information contact the Link Up team on 07493876130 or by email: fionab@northedinburgharts.co.uk
MONDAYS 5.30 – 7.30pm at WEST PILTON NEIGHBOURHOOD CENTRE
A free badminton club starts on Monday next week at West Pilton Neighbourhood Centre!
For ages 14 and over, and all equipment is supplied. No need to book.
For more information please call the Link Up team on 07493 876 130.
Our opening times at Pennywell Pantry are changing slightly from this week – we will now close slightly earlier at 1pm on a Saturday.
Our opening times will stay the same from Wednesday to Friday, when we’ll be open as usual from 10am – 2pm.
Due to a break in earlier this week, the Pennywell Pantry will not reopen until Wednesday 28th July. We are very sorry to all our members.
For updates, check in with the Link up Muirhouse team.
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Muirhouse Link Up are hoping to start a new project which would make North Edinburgh a more caring and kinder place as well as highlighting the amazing work that goes on already. Continue reading NECK: North Edinburgh Caring and Kind
Muirhouse Youth Development Group
would like to invite you to our AGM
Thursday 24 September
3.30 – 5pm
My Adventure HQ
23b West Harbour Road, EH5 1PN
MYDG***MY Adventure***Muirhouse Link Up
Refreshments included
Please RSVP by Friday 11 September
(by email to Dean@mydg.org.uk)
Dear All,
I look forward to seeing everyone at the AGM at the MY Adventure HQ on 24 September. It will be great to share the groups successes over the last year and celebrate our young people together.
Address is: 23b West Harbour Road, Edinburgh, EH5 1PN.
If anyone would like to bring their bike to be given a free health check on the day please bring it along. We have a mechanics workshop here and some of the MY Academy team will be there to do it.
See you all soon,
James Howell, Director
Coming soon – the Community Leadership College!
Groundwork is now underway to establish a new Community Leadership College in North Edinburgh. The initiative will build on the skills of local residents and will be designed by the community itself.
Total Craigroyston works in partnership with others to strengthen services across Pilton and Muirhouse; strengthening support for families and building on the strength of the community.
The organisation, with partners Circle Scotland and Muirhouse Link Up, recently secured funding from the STV Foundation to develop a Community Leadership College.
What’s a community college?
“Many local people have become involved in community activities and volunteering through Link Up, The North Edinburgh Time Bank and many other community projects,” explained Total Craigroyston manager Christine Mackay. “The Community Leadership College will give us the opportunity to take that involvement to the next level by providing training, support and other types of activities so that more leaders are created within the community. The development of the college will be directed by local residents themselves, initially through a series of ‘Conversation Cafes’, so that we can gather their ideas and develop the programme.”
The College will be led by the community, ensuring that local needs and aspirations are central to the college’s development.
Over the coming weeks a series of ‘community conversation cafe’ events on the subject of community leadership will be held across the area.
It’s hoped that these informal sessions will attract the widest possible range of local residents of all ages, and the ideas and suggestions generated at the conversation cafes will then be used to develop the community leadership college plan.
Look out for more information coming soon – and get involved! Be part of shaping your community!
£84,000 will establish a Community Leadership College
The STV Appeal is the fund that just keeps on giving to projects in North Edinburgh – Total Craigroyston became the latest local beneficiary when it received almost £84,000 from the charity programme.
STV CEO and trustee of the STV Appeal Rob Woodward and Chris Wilson managing director, Retail and Private Banking, RBS, presented the cheque for £83, 980 to Total Craigroyston manager Christine Mackay yesterday.
The STV Appeal raised £2.6million in 2014 – £305,689 of this was raised by RBS branches.
Total Craigroyston is an initiative set up by the Edinburgh Partnership to improve outcomes for children and families in the neighbourhood around Craigroyston Community High School. The project is doing this by taking a three pronged approach –
Now, working in partnership with charities Circle Scotland and the Link-up Muirhouse project, an idea has been developed to establish a Community Leadership College. This will help Total Craigroyston expand leadership capability amongst local residents.
Julie Crawford, Muirhouse Link Up development worker, said: “We are really excited about the opportunity that the STV Appeal has given us to turn our idea into reality. This project will help us work with local people to build on the excellent local leadership that exists at the moment and take it to the next level.”
Chris Wilson, managing director, Retail and Private Banking, RBS, said: “It’s fantastic to see first-hand the work of projects like Total Craigroyston and understand the real impact that the money from the STV Appeal will have on them. RBS is proud to support the STV Appeal and help change the lives of vulnerable children and young people in Scotland.”
The STV Appeal is committed to making a difference in the lives of children and young people living in poverty in Scotland. Across the country, 220,000 children live in poverty and figures from the Campaign to End Child Poverty show that in the city of Edinburgh it’s actually 21.1% of children – more than one in five.
Total Craigroyston is just one of the projects the STV Appeal is supporting in North Edinburgh – Pilton Youth & Childrens Project, Changeworks and Fresh Start have all received grants from the funder.
Since launch in 2011, the STV Appeal has raised over £8.2 million with 297 big and small grants distributed to projects across all 32 local authority areas in Scotland, providing much needed support to over 37,000 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.
Rob Woodward, STV CEO and trustee of the STV Appeal, said: “The money donated to the STV Appeal remains in Scotland and will help bring about a positive change to the lives of vulnerable children and young people on our doorstep. With the help of the extraordinary fundraising efforts taking place in communities across the country we have raised an incredible £2.6m in 2014 allowing us to make grants to 297 projects. We are extremely grateful to everyone who supported the Appeal.”
