The June NEN has been printed and is now dropping through letterboxes all across North Edinburgh.
For those of you who just can’t wait to see the paper (!), click on the link below:
Happy reading!
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Thanks to YOU, NEN’s set for June print run
The NEN will appear in newspaper form again later this month thanks to the generosity of local organisations and individuals who have shown their support by advertising in the forthcoming edition.
NEN would like to thank the following for their commitment to North Edinburgh’s community newspaper:
MALCOLM CHISHOLM MSP
CRAIGROYSTON COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL
FORTH & INVERLEITH LABOUR COUNCILLORS
GRANTON INFORMATION CENTRE
LIFECARE
NORTH EDINBURGH ALCOHOL INITIATIVE COLLABORATIVE
NORTH EDINBURGH ARTS
NORTH EDINBURGH CHILDCARE
NORTH EDINBURGH CREDIT UNION
NORTH EDINBURGH REFORMED PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
THE PRENTICE CENTRE
ROYSTON WARDIEBURN COMMUNITY CENTRE
THE SPARTANS COMMUNITY FOOTBALL ACADEMY
THE STAND COMEDY CLUB
STEPPING STONES NORTH EDINBURGH
TOTAL CRAIGROYSTON
WEST PILTON NEIGHBOURHOOD CENTRE
We’d also like to thank the organisations who got back in touch to say that, while they are not in a position to advertise at this time, they will consider doing so in future editions.
So thank you all for your support.
Without it, NEN just couldn’t continue.
PS:
If your name’s not down, you’re not gettin’ in! Is your name missing from the above list? Should it be there? Do you want it to be there? If so, get in touch at northedinnews@gmail.com but you’ll have to be quick!
June NEN: deadline tomorrow
Hi Everyone
You may recall an earlier post saying that we planned to publish a June edition – but only if sufficient advertising revenue was generated to cover the costs of producing the newspaper?
Well, we’re tantalizingly close to reaching our advertising target but we’re not there yet, and this is a reminder that tomorrow
Friday 31 May
is the deadline for advertising copy, so if you want to advertise in the June edition you really had better get your skates on!
If you’d like to advertise in the June NEN or you require further information please email northedinnews@gmail.com or telephone 07925 405 972.
Blogging lite as countdown begins
Blogging will be less frequent over the next couple of weeks as we go off chasing advertising for our summer edition. Don’t want to over-dramatise but it really is a race against time … !
Summer NEN
When will the next print issue of North Edinburgh News hit the streets? NEN’s voluntary board of directors met on Monday evening and agreed to aim for a summer edition – if advertising revenue can be assured the NEN will be out again at the end of June.
Our last print version was last distributed across North Edinburgh in February, and while NEN continues to have an online presence there are many local residents who do not have computer access, so receiving a copy of the print issue remains just as important as it always has.
To enable us to produce another newspaper, however, we must raise funds. The NEN receives no core funding, so to produce our newspaper we need to raise enough advertising revenue or sponsorship to cover our production costs.
Earlier this year NEN received community grant funding from both Forth and Inverleith Neighbourhood Partnerships to support efforts to improve income opportunities. This piece of work is now well underway – databases have been developed and over the coming weeks we will be contacting all local organisations, charities and businesses large and small to let them know how they can support North Edinburgh’s community newspaper. We’ll be casting the net further afield too – after all, the folk of North Edinburgh don’t only shop or access services in North Edinburgh! The aim of the exercise is not only to raise funding for another edition but to secure regular commitment from potential advertisers and sponsors to ensure the NEN’s longer term future.
This is not going to be a quick or easy task, so in the meantime, if you would like to advertise in NEN’s June issue or you would like any further information about advertising or sponsorship, please get in touch – through this blog, by email at northedinnews@gmail.com or telephone 07925 405 972.
We look forward to hearing from you!
February NEN
The February NEN will be with you shortly. If you can’t wait to see the latest print issue, click on the link below:
Hope you enjoy the paper – let us know what you think!
The NEN year in pictures – Part Two (May – August)
NEN – record breaking November stats
November was a record month for North Edinburgh News – there were 10, 496 visits to the NEN blog last month, our best figures yet. The daily average – 350 – is also our highest ever.
The most popular articles in November were the rise of Blackhall Athletic, the BBC DIY SOS refurbishment of The Yard and the Welcome to Muirhouse photo exhibition – three very different stories from different geographical corners of our readership area but with one thing in common: they’re all positive, good news stories!
Makes you think …?
Bank interest in North Edinburgh News
The NEN has received a cheque for £500 from The Royal Bank of Scotland. The banks’s charity committee agreed to support an application by NEN board member Eddie Thorn.
Kevin Havelock, Regional Director for Corporate and Institutional Banking at Royal Bank of Scotland, explained: “Following the difficulties that RBS experienced in recent years we are looking to reconnect with the communities that we all live and work in.”
He went on: “We are very fortunate at RBS to have many staff who have been with us for twenty, twenty-five even thirty years and many of them are active in their communities. We established a system of grants to support local charities and community initiatives nominated by our staff.
“The Edinburgh Community Partnership Board has representation from every division of the bank – there are eleven people in all on the committee, each with an equal vote. We were delighted both with the volume and the great variety of nominations that came in, and we agreed our first round of grants in October. We are supporting a very broad spectrum of good causes, from supplying sports equipment to groups to helping local health charities.”
Royal Bank of Scotland will donate £100,000 in a rolling programme in the East of Scotland, and one of the first forty grateful recipients is North Edinburgh News.
North Edinburgh News treasurer Eddie Thorn said: “The Royal Bank of Scotland is to be commended for their wide contribution to local communities. It is particularly pleasing that they recognised all that the NEN strives to achieve, and we are very grateful for the bank’s generous support – it’s much appreciated.”
Kevin added: “We will be offering practical and sometimes even physical support, too – we want the charity to get more from the bank than just a cheque. Working with and providing support to the charity is a natural progression.”
NEN’s Eddie Thorn and RBS’ Kevin Havelock are pictured outside the NEN’s base at Edinburgh College Granton Campus.
October NEN’s on it’s way
What October NEN, you may ask? Well, following a hiccup with our printers,the paper is on it’s way and will be with you soon. For those readers who just can’t wait, see below for a PDF version … (and the print quality will definitely be better than the hastily-scanned front page (above!)