The Living in Harmony Forum meets tonight
Tuesday 25 November from 5.30 -7.30pm
at Royston Wardieburn Community Centre.
The group has also set a date for a Chat Café at Granton Youth Centre next month – see below
community chat cafe poster december
Rachel Farrier (Development Worker, Living in Harmony)
Pilton Community Health Project
Scotland’s senior community health project still forging ahead
The oldest community health project in Scotland, Pilton Community Health Project has played a key role in promoting healthy lifestyles in North Edinburgh for thirty years. And if their recent annual general meeting is anything to go by, PCHP will be at the forefront of community health initiatives for a long time to come!
Annual general meetings can often be fairly dull affairs, but Pilton Community Health Project used their AGM to showcase the many elements that go into making a very successful community project.
Yes, there was the tedious but necessary business, but then the packed meeting was treated to the highlights of the past twelve months, courtesy of PCHP staff who gave presentations on the wide range of activities that are taking place at the Health Project’s Boswall Parkway base and, increasingly, out in the wider community.
Food development workers Memes Molina and Joe Jones kicked of the presentations with the launch of a new educational toolkit, then Women Supporting Women development worker Alison Hughes gave an overview of the PEEP programme.
Lianne Pipskyj and Clare Symonds shared the news of the Physical Activity Project’s ongoing success and Carol Targett, who leads PCHP’s counselling team, focused her contribution on the team’s work with young people in North Edinburgh.
As you can imagine there was a lot of information to take in – but fortunately you don’t have to! The morning’s other presentation saw PCHP manager Jen Richards launch PCHP’s bright new website, which contains all the information you need on everything that’s happening at PCHP!
Read all about it at www.pchp.org.uk
And here’s the Annual Report:
Living in Harmony are holding an Equality and Diversity training event on Thursday 11 December at Pilton Community Health Project on Boswall Parkway.
See poster (below) for details:
Equality and diversity training in Pilton
Care about food and healthy eating? Pilton Community Health Project is organising an event you won’t want to miss:
To book your place, email admin@pchp.org.uk
You are invited to attend
PILTON COMMUNITY HEALTH PROJECT
ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
on Wednesday 12 November 10:30 – 12:30
at Pilton Community Health Project
73 Boswall Parkway, Edinburgh, EH5 2PW
Come along and find out what we’ve done this year and hear more about what we have planned!
Light refreshments will be served
RSVP
admin@pchp.org.uk or 0131 551 1671
You are invited to attend
PILTON COMMUNITY HEALTH PROJECT
ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
on Wednesday 12 November 10:30 – 12:30
at Pilton Community Health Project
73 Boswall Parkway, Edinburgh, EH5 2PW
Come along and find out what we’ve done this year and hear more about what we have planned!
Light refreshments will be served
RSVP
admin@pchp.org.uk or 0131 551 1671
And this has nothing to do with the referendum aftermath …!
Living in Harmony Multicultural Forum
Come along to help us think about future activities that can bring all our communities together, and hear about what is already going on in North Edinburgh for your community.
Tuesday 30 September 5.30-7.30pm
North Edinburgh Arts, 15a Pennywell Road
Creche and language support available but must be booked in advance.
Contact Rachel Farrier to book or for more information:
Call 551 1671 or email lih@pchp.org.uk
North Edinburgh’s Living in Harmony Group is holding a food, music and action planning event at Royston Wardieburn Community Centre tomorrow (Friday) from 5 – 8.30pm.
The Living in Harmony project aims to work with local people to increase understanding and friendship between different ethnic and cultural groups. The group, which is supported by Pilton Community Health Project, also works to reduce barriers to accessing services which people from Black and Minority Ethnic backgrounds have said they sometimes experience.
They do this by supporting activities that bring the community together around food, music, treasure hunts, board games… you name it!
LIH also work strategically with partners in the area to make the most of existing resources.
The project is guided by a forum of local people and organisations which meets regularly – why not find out more at Friday’s event? All welcome!
Whilst many of you were possibly sitting enjoying the opening ceremony of the Commonwealth Games last night …
Dave and Phil’s Walk/Jog Club started here in North Edinburgh at East Pilton Park and had a great turn out for the first night! This brand new exciting activity is led by amazing and enthusiastic and experienced local volunteers and is accessible to anyone who would like to try out jogging for the first time; or second, or third….
It’s also great to see so many people getting out and using some of the fantastic local green spaces we have here in Greater Pilton too! Please feel free to spread the word about this great activity to anyone and everyone you think needs to know.
Healthy Regards
Lianne Pipskyj
Development Worker- Physical Activity
Pilton Community Health Project
Has the growing excitement in the build-up to the Commonwealth Games whetted your appetite for exercise? Don’t answer that!
A new free local walk/jog club starts tomorrow (Wednesday) at 7pm at East Pilton Park – just in time for the opening ceremony of the Commonwealth games!
It’s open to all and is particularly suited to those who would like to try jogging for the first time. It’s a fun, friendly volunteer-led activity and free of charge.
Go on – turn the TV off and go join Dave and Phil!
