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Roberta Blaikie’s funeral service will be held on Tuesday 8 December at 1pm at Warriston Crematorium.
‘Scotland is crying out for some big, transformative ideas’ – Common Weal’s Robin McAlpine
Common Weal Director Robin McAlpine will join over 100 Common Weal supporters from across Edinburgh and The Lothians to launch the Common Weal ‘A Book of Ideas’ at City of Edinburgh Methodist Church on Friday evening. Continue reading A Book of Ideas for Scotland
And there’s a free festive lunch too!
Wednesday 2 December 7pm
Drylaw Neighbourhood Centre AGM
Are you interested in being more active in your local community and shaping the future of your Neighbourhood Centre?
Drylaw Telford Community Association is looking for local people to join the Centre’s management committee.
Come along to the meeting tomorrow evening to find out more – and there are refreshments and bingo after the meeting too!
OPEN SPACE EVENT
Tuesday 1 December 6 – 9pm
McDonald Road Library
Twenty folk attended TCC on 9 November. Here’s an update … Continue reading Trinity Community Council: November update
A few places left on Friday’s Equality & Diversity training course
Dear All,
Thank you to all who came to the forum meeting on 28 October – I’ve attached the minutes for your information (below).
Next forum event: Language Barriers and How to Overcome Them
Thursday 10 December, 10am – 12 noon at Pilton Community Health Project, 73 Boswall Parkway, EH5 2PW.
Many people at the Positively Diverse event said that they would like to overcome potential language barriers in their work.
We will have speaker from Elite Linguists, http://www.elitelinguists.co.uk/ an Edinburgh based social enterprisecommitted to strengthening Scotland’s public service interpreting and translation provision, thereby addressing some of the root causes of inequality and injustice in our society where language can be a barrier.
We will consider whether translating information is always the best option, and other ways we can overcome language barriers in our work. I will also be inviting local residents to share what has been helpful or difficult in this area, and we will have space to collaborate on solutions.
Equality and diversity training: 20 November, 22 January, 25 March
There are a few places left on the Equality and Diversity training on Friday, 9.30-1 at PCHP. Please contact me on 0131 5511671 or reply to this email if any of your colleagues or volunteers would like to attend. The training is an excellent overview of the issues, and we are encouraging as many workers in the area as possible to take part.
• Understand and discuss the fundamental aspects of the Equality Act 2010, and be able examine your responsibilities relating to it.
• Increase your understanding of issues facing minority ethnic groups in the area.
• Learn how to talk about controversial issues and dispel the myths about immigration.
The training is being provided by Living in Harmony and Edinburgh and Lothians Regional Equalities Council (ELREC).
Positive images project
As you will see in the minutes of the meeting, we are pleased to have a Community Education Student, Luke Campbell, with us for 18 weeks. He is hoping to interview a wide range of people who live in the area to highlight and celebrate the diversity here, as well as trying to combat some common myths about immigration. The interviews will be used on social media. He is looking for opportunities to visit groups or events in order to find people who would like to take part. If you are interested, please contact him at student@pchp.org.uk.
Living in Harmony forum minutes 28 October 2015
Hannah Kitchen
Development Worker, Living in Harmony, Pilton Community Health Project
0131 551 1671
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Blackhall Library 6.30pm
Do you want to hear how things are going in North? Come hear what you told us in the Edinburgh People’s Survey, how the North team and other INP Partners are performing and what’s been happening towards key priorities in the Local Community Plan 2014-2017. Come to Blackhall Library tonight at 6.30pm!
Papers for Inverleith Neighbourhood Partnership meeting on Monday.
A weekend of fun activities for all the family coming up at The Madelvic
