New Drop-in Alert
Join us for an open and friendly Community Police Drop-in session! This is your chance to meet our local officer, discuss any concerns, ask questions.
When: 26th of August
Where: Pilton Community Health Project, 73 Boswall Parkway, EH5 2PW
What Time: 12:00 – 1:00 PM
No appointment needed, just drop in.
Whether you want to share your thoughts, seek advice, or simply say hello, we are here to listen.
Join Stuart Dobbin, SNP Councillor for Forth Ward for an informal Twilight Drop-in session tonight Monday 19th of August from 5pm to 6:30pm at Pilton Community Health Project.
This is great opportunity to chat about local issues, share your thoughts. Whether you are looking to discuss specific concerns or just want to stop by and say hello.
Feel free to drop-in anytime during this session – no appointment necessary.
Did you know that you can manage menopause symptoms through food?
Are you navigating through menopause and looking for natural ways to ease the journey? the right Foods can be powerful allies in managing symptoms like hot flashes, mood swings, and bone health.
When: Monday 19th of August
Where: Pilton Community Health Project
What time: 18:30 – 20:30
Join us in exploring how simple dietary changes can support your body during this transition. Let’s embrace this stage of life with nourishing meals that help us feel our best.
Living in #NorthEdinburgh and would like to raise an issue affecting you?
Drop In this Friday for a cuppa and a chat with local @Edinburgh_CC Forth Councillor Stuart Dobbin this Friday 16 August in our welcoming Community Hub any time between 9.15am and 11am.
Exciting news from Pilton Community Health Project
We are happy to announce our new Autumn/ Winter #CommuunityWellbeingProgramme , featuring variety of group activities – some brand new and some beloved ones making comeback!
New Programmes:
Climate Cook Club where you can learn more about shopping, preparing and cooking healthy, delicious meals on a budget on a 5-week course
Family Cook Club – where all family can come together, cook together, learn healthy recipes and build lasting memories
Intro to Pilates – for everyone who wants to build the foundation for a strong core muscles, poster and general wellbeing.
Gentle exercise is designed for Every Body and Any Body. You can even practice it, while sitting on a chair.
And our Programmes that have already become classics:
Chat Cafe
Knit & Natter
M-Club
Men’s wellbeing in Nature
Women Outdoor Cooking Club
Women’ Wellbeing in Nature
Tiny Plates
Also Happy to continue Hosting Drop-ins of our Partner Organizations:
Stuart Dobbin, SNP Councillor for Forth Ward and
Our Community Wellbeing Programme is based on #FiveWaysToWellbeing framework.
We encourage people to #Connect#BeActive#TakeNotice#Learn and #Give .
Our mission is #Equality, #Wellbeing and #Belonging for all in our Community.
Join us in our mission to support and enables local people to take steps to improve their own health and create a healthy community and environment.
West Pilton Neighbourhood Centre
NEW DROP-IN AT PILTON COMMUNITY HEALTH PROJECT
New Drop-in!! Pilton Community Health project together with Macmillan Cancer Support and NHS Lothian are happy to announce a new drop-in.
Is cancer part of your story?
If it is, we have drop in sessions 1st Tuesday of the month 12-2 pm with Lee, a Link Worker from ‘Improving the Cancer Journey’, a Macmillan funded service to support people with the non clinical impact of cancer – money, work, the emotional impact & practical issues.
This service is open to families and carers too and offers everyone time to talk about what matters to them, helps them access local supports and services and be a listening ear/point of contact.
A few spaces left:
Could you spare an hour on Sat 20th July to chat about bread?!
Some Edinburgh University researchers are currently recruiting for a focus group, and will pay £20 (generic shopping voucher). Please email the address on the poster if you’re interested..
You may know that we’re doing various experiments with grain growing and have been running Granton Garden Bakery since 2019. We’re interested in your views on bread, whatever they are!
PILTON Community Health Project marked an amazing milestone on Thursday as they celebrated their fortieth birthday.
The ground-breaking local health project, which was launched at a doctor’s surgery on Crewe Road North back in 1984, was the first of it’s kind in Scotland.
Pilton Health Project later moved to bigger premises on West Pilton Park, where the Health Hut housed the innovative Barri Grubb food initiative and was home to the celebrated Western General Action Group campaign, before moving on to their present home on the corner of Pilton Drive North / Boswall Parkway.
My own involvement with the Health Project began in 1990 when the Western General Action Group fought a long campaign to retain Accident and Emergency and maternity/paediatric services at our local hospital.
Sadly Lothian Health Board decided otherwise, but through our persistence we did achieve the establishment of a Minor Injuries Unit at the Western – the first of it’s kind in Scotland.
Despite repeated funding challenges over the years Pilton Community Health Project has continued to provide a wide range of support services to some of Edinburgh’s most vulnerable people, and Thursday was an opportunity to celebrate a remarkable story.
The project welcomed a visit by health minister Neil Gray and local politicians in the morning and in the afternoon a hardy group of us ‘golden oldie’ original supporters and PHCP staff took part in a wee walk from PCHP HQ to the project’s birthplace (and back again!) – an opportunity to meet up with friends old and new.
Back at the project guests enjoyed refreshments and shared stories and magic memories of some of the amazing characters who have played a part in PCHP’s rich history.
It really was a pleasure to be there – and I’m looking forward to the 50th anniversary party already!
Do you want to become a part of wonderful community based in North of Edinburgh? Look no further – Pilton Community Health project Needs You!
Currently we have few roles available.
For more information email hello@pchp.org.uk, call 01315511671 or just pop in to PCHP for a chat.
INTERESTED IN VOLUNTEERING?
Pop along to Pilton Community Health Project today between 11.30am-1.00pm for a coffee (& cake 
) to find out more!!
