Almost four hundred local people took part in Friday’s Muirhouse Million Steps event. Local schools were well represented on the walk, which was also supported by Edinburgh Western MSP Colin Keir.
And did those marching feet make the magical million milestone? We’ll have to wait until next week to find out! Event organiser Lisa Arnott, Pilton Community Health Project’s Healthy Lifestyles coordinator, has promised to be in touch soon.
Some photographs of the event:
MUIRHOUSE MILLION STEPS 2012
One day, Two routes AND our fabulous goody bag, free Zumba passes, FREE swim and our very collectable certificate for everybody who registers and does the walk!
Last years Million Steps was on a Saturday but we have moved it back to a Friday due to popular demand!
Last year we did well over a million steps…. can we beat that!!!
Groups and organisations used this as an opportunity for raising funds for community groups and local groups – so if you are a local school, community group, mothers group, dads group, local organisation, work place, get a team together and take those wee steps towards a healthier lifestyle!
PS if you are a local organisation or business and you can’t make it on the day you can always take part in Walkin’ at Work week, from 17 – 21 September.
Lisa Arnott, PCHP Community Healthy Lifestyles Coordinator (on behalf of the organising group)
Pilton Community Health Project’s Healthy Lifestyles coordinator Lisa Arnott has news of two opportunities to step out next month:
WALKING at WORK WEEK
Monday 17 September to Friday 21 September
On 17 September Pilton Community Health Project will be launching its new physical activity event ‘Walking at Work Week’. Walking is free and is the simplest way to becoming fit. ‘‘Walkin at Work Week’ is a great way to encouraging us to think about the way we get too work, school or shops. Can I walk there and leave the car or bus?
Do we take a car to a meeting or shops when I can walk? This week we are hoping as may local business, schools and local organisations will join us in ‘Walkin at Work Week’ wear a pedometer for that week and show just how far we all walk.
All the steps made during ‘Walking at Work Week’ will contribute to the Muirhouse Million Steps which takes place on Friday 28 September from 10am.
MUIRHOUSE MILLION STEPS 2012
Friday 28 September 2012
10am -12.30 from North Edinburgh Arts, Pennywell Court Muirhouse
After the success of previous years the Muirhouse Million Steps 2012 is currently being planned. This year’s event will take place on Friday 28 September, 10am to 12.30am. The fun family walking event has proven to be popular in previous years and a way of encouraging local people to take those steps towards a healthier lifestyle.
This year Muirhouse Million Steps will have three walks, a long, short and toddlers walk. For every registered walker they will receive an amazing goody bag and vouchers for swimming at Craigroyston Community High School and a free Zumba class at PCHP .
To register for the walk, or for more information about Walking at Work Week, contact Lisa Arnott at Pilton Community Health Project, telephone 551 1671.
Use Your Loaf is a new and exciting initiative coordinated by Pilton Community Health Project (PCHP) in partnership with CLD Forth Team and North Edinburgh Arts.
‘This is an exciting new development for Pilton Community Health Project. The idea came out of our community research which identified the barriers to healthy eating. The research showed that local people want to develop skills in all forms of eating healthy, cooking and bread making”, said Lisa Arnott, coordinator of the Community Healthy Lifestyles Project at PCHP. “As a result of the PCHP research we have seen the development of the Yummy Cookbook, the Yummy Food Festival and now the ‘Use Your Loaf’ project. This new project will teach local people how to make some fantastic bread and encourage people to eat more healthily.”
Sammy Dick, one of the women involved in planning the Yummy Food Festival, said: “The Yummy Food Festival 2012 was really exciting and there was such positive a response that we are planning to repeat it 2013. The Use Your Loaf project is a great idea and we will be learning how to make a simple loaf and planning for the next food festival.’
Use Your Loaf will be held at North Edinburgh Arts Centre, starting on Tuesday 28 August, 10am-12.30 and runs for ten weeks. There are also limited childcare places available.
So if you KNEAD to book a place on ‘Use Your Loaf’, contact Lisa Arnott at Pilton Community Health Project on 0131 551 1671!
Pilton Community Health Project’s Caroline Gibb has been in touch to remind us of a couple of food-centred events taking place this week:
Tuesday 24 July, 12-2pm: West Pilton Neighbourhood Centre, 19West Pilton Grove
Fabby Food Store Picnic & Barbecue
A drop in event at West Pilton Neighbourhood Centre, people can come along and make their own burger, veggie kebab or salad, and find out more about Pilton’s newest food co-op at the same time. Loads of indoor space if we get unlucky with the weather!
Tuesday 24 July, 11am -1pm: Millennium Centre, Muirhouse Medway
Simple Snacks at MillenniumCentre Summer Youth Club
Making your own tasty veggiewraps. Places must be booked for this event by calling 0131 467 3578.
If your group or organisation is planning an event you would like to share with our readers please get in touch.
Pilton Community Health Project (PCHP) has come through a tough year, and it would have been no surprise to have found staff and board feeling a bit down at their recent annual general meeting. That wasn’t the case, however, and a steady succession of staff and volunteers took turns to highlight some of the exciting initiatives they have planned for the year ahead.
PCHP is one of North Edinburgh’s oldest community organisations. Set up originally as The Health Hut, the project celebrated it’s 25th anniversary in 2010. Like all community projects PCHP has had it’s share of ups and downs over the years but there’s no doubt that last year was one of the toughest of them all.
Chairperson Irene Garden told the annual general meeting on 26 June: “As in previous years we were faced with severe cuts, so we have had to say goodbye to the Barri Grubb shop, with four redundancies. That was a very sad time for us all, and other, much-valued staff have also had to leave because their funding was not renewed. Our former manager Dave Hewitt left at Christmas, so we have lost a lot of good colleagues; familiar faces that were popular and well-known in the community”.
However Irene went on to highlight some of the project’s successes. “There is still a lot to be positive about – among other things we have recruited a new worker to do some research for Barri Grubb, the Muirhouse Million Steps project (pictured below) was both original and very successful and our school counselling sessions have been very well received. Women Supporting Women continues to offer excellent one to one support and we are delighted that waiting lists are now coming down and that people in our community are getting counselling when they need it. Thanks to our brilliant volunteers our Befriending Service is also going from strength to strength – and volunteers are the backbone of the very successful Walking Project too”.
Manager Jen Richards (pictured below) told the meeting: “I have already spent two and a half years here in different roles and I am very passionate about keeping our services going – Pilton Community Health Project has been part of this community for 27 years and I’d love to think we can be here for another twenty-seven”.
Jen said her priorities over the coming months will be to raise the project’s profile, maximising funding by looking at new income generation streams and developing and building new and existing partnerships.
“There have been a lot of changes and I’m very grateful to very talented and totally dedicated we have here – I really value their support in a very challenging environment. Yes, it is challenging but I’m sure we’ll come out smiling at the other end!”
Local councillor Cammy Day then conducted election business before the staff team gave updates on both what’s been happening and what’s going to be happening this year. And there’s an awful lot to look forward to at PCHP …
Community Healthy Lifestyles Project’s Motivate to Move and Muirhouse Million Steps 2012, Use Your Loaf – a bread baking class that will be taking place at North Edinburgh Arts Centre, a major consultation into men’s health to find the gaps in current service provision. Then there are plans to develop the popular walking programme, the possible development of a Zumba class in Stockbridge as a social enterprise, continuing to meet the needs for counselling services. The recently launched SOURCE information room will be developed and good news about Barri Grubb, too – Barri’s no’ deid at a’! While the shop is no more, the service has been restructured and Barri Grubb will be relaunched – maybe with a name change – in the near future. In the meantime summer events are planned; a community food map, more partnership working and the Food for Thought forum will be expanded …
That’s quite a catalogue – check out Pilton Community Health Project’s website at www.pchp.org.uk for more information.
Pilton Community Health Project (PCHP) has come through a tough year, and it would have been no surprise to have found staff and board feeling a bit down at their recent annual general meeting. That wasn’t the case, however, and a steady succession of staff and volunteers took turns to highlight some of the exciting initiatives they have planned for the year ahead.
PCHP is one of North Edinburgh’s oldest community organisations. Set up originally as The Health Hut, the project celebrated it’s 25th anniversary in 2010. Like all community projects PCHP has had it’s share of ups and downs over the years but there’s no doubt that last year was one of the toughest of them all.
Chairperson Irene Garden told the annual general meeting on 26 June: “As in previous years we were faced with severe cuts, so we have had to say goodbye to the Barri Grubb shop, with four redundancies. That was a very sad time for us all, and other, much-valued staff have also had to leave because their funding was not renewed. Our former manager Dave Hewitt left at Christmas, so we have lost a lot of good colleagues; familiar faces that were popular and well-known in the community”.
However Irene went on to highlight some of the project’s successes. “There is still a lot to be positive about – among other things we have recruited a new worker to do some research for Barri Grubb, the Muirhouse Million Steps project (pictured below) was both original and very successful and our school counselling sessions have been very well received. Women Supporting Women continues to offer excellent one to one support and we are delighted that waiting lists are now coming down and that people in our community are getting counselling when they need it. Thanks to our brilliant volunteers our Befriending Service is also going from strength to strength – and volunteers are the backbone of the very successful Walking Project too”.
Manager Jen Richards (pictured below) told the meeting: “I have already spent two and a half years here in different roles and I am very passionate about keeping our services going – Pilton Community Health Project has been part of this community for 27 years and I’d love to think we can be here for another twenty-seven”.
Jen said her priorities over the coming months will be to raise the project’s profile, maximising funding by looking at new income generation streams and developing and building new and existing partnerships.
“There have been a lot of changes and I’m very grateful to very talented and totally dedicated we have here – I really value their support in a very challenging environment. Yes, it is challenging but I’m sure we’ll come out smiling at the other end!”
Local councillor Cammy Day then conducted election business before the staff team gave updates on both what’s been happening and what’s going to be happening this year. And there’s an awful lot to look forward to at PCHP …
Community Healthy Lifestyles Project’s Motivate to Move and Muirhouse Million Steps 2012, Use Your Loaf – a bread baking class that will be taking place at North Edinburgh Arts Centre, a major consultation into men’s health to find the gaps in current service provision. Then there are plans to develop the popular walking programme, the possible development of a Zumba class in Stockbridge as a social enterprise, continuing to meet the needs for counselling services. The recently launched SOURCE information room will be developed and good news about Barri Grubb, too – Barri’s no’ deid at a’! While the shop is no more, the service has been restructured and Barri Grubb will be relaunched – maybe with a name change – in the near future. In the meantime summer events are planned; a community food map, more partnership working and the Food for Thought forum will be expanded …
That’s quite a catalogue – check out Pilton Community Health Project’s website at www.pchp.org.uk for more information.
The FOOD for THOUGHT FORUM, in association with Pilton Community Health Project and Barri Grubb, has highlighted a feast of free food events across the Forth area over the summer holidays. How’s this top ten for tempting treats?:
Saturday 7 July 11 – 2pm
West Pilton Community Garden & Planting Day
West Pilton Place, next to Pilton Youth & Children’s Project Greenhouse – all welcome, just turn up!
Tuesday 10 July 10am – 12 noon
Craigroyston Cookery
Craigroyston High School, Pennywell Road – phone to book on 538 7285 or 477 7801.
Thursday 12 July 1 – 3.30pm
PEP Summer Fayre
West Pilton Park – all welcome, just turn up!
Tuesday 17 July 10am – 12 noon
Craigroyston Cookery
Craigroyston High Schoo, Pennywell Road – phone 538 7285 or 477 7801 to book.
Thursday 19 July 11am – 1pm
Spanish Cooking at Barri Grubb
Pilton Community Health Project, Boswall Parkway – To book your place call 551 1671.
Tuesday 24 July, 11am – 1pm
Fabby Food Store Picnic and Barbecue
West Pilton Neighbourhood Centre – just turn up!
Tuesday 24 July 11am – 1pm
Simple Snacks at Millennium Centre Summer Youth Club
Muirhouse Millennium Centre, Muirhouse Medway – call 467 3578 to book.
Wednesday 1 August 12.30 – 4pm
Trip to the Botanics’ Edible Garden
Bus leaves The Haven Project, Craigroyston Primary School. To book, call 551 1671.
Saturday 4 August 1 – 4pm
Granton Community Gardens Barbecue
Corner of Boswall Parkway and Wardieburn Road – just turn up!
Wednesday 8 August 11.30 – 3.30pm
Trip to Craigies Farm
Bus leaves PCHP, Boswall Parkway. Phone to book on 551 1671.
The FOOD for THOUGHT FORUM, in association with Pilton Community Health Project and Barri Grubb, has highlighted a feast of free food events across the Forth area over the summer holidays. How’s this top ten for tempting treats?:
Saturday 7 July 11 – 2pm
West Pilton Community Garden & Planting Day
West Pilton Place, next to Pilton Youth & Children’s Project Greenhouse – all welcome, just turn up!
Tuesday 10 July 10am – 12 noon
Craigroyston Cookery
Craigroyston High School, Pennywell Road – phone to book on 538 7285 or 477 7801.
Thursday 12 July 1 – 3.30pm
PEP Summer Fayre
West Pilton Park – all welcome, just turn up!
Tuesday 17 July 10am – 12 noon
Craigroyston Cookery
Craigroyston High Schoo, Pennywell Road – phone 538 7285 or 477 7801 to book.
Thursday 19 July 11am – 1pm
Spanish Cooking at Barri Grubb
Pilton Community Health Project, Boswall Parkway – To book your place call 551 1671.
Tuesday 24 July, 11am – 1pm
Fabby Food Store Picnic and Barbecue
West Pilton Neighbourhood Centre – just turn up!
Tuesday 24 July 11am – 1pm
Simple Snacks at Millennium Centre Summer Youth Club
Muirhouse Millennium Centre, Muirhouse Medway – call 467 3578 to book.
Wednesday 1 August 12.30 – 4pm
Trip to the Botanics’ Edible Garden
Bus leaves The Haven Project, Craigroyston Primary School. To book, call 551 1671.
Saturday 4 August 1 – 4pm
Granton Community Gardens Barbecue
Corner of Boswall Parkway and Wardieburn Road – just turn up!
Wednesday 8 August 11.30 – 3.30pm
Trip to Craigies Farm
Bus leaves PCHP, Boswall Parkway. Phone to book on 551 1671.
Last year’s Muirhouse Million Steps was one of the area’s most talked-about community events, with over 120 people taking part in the marathon walk around the area. Community Healthy Lifestyles coordinator Lisa Arnott hopes to make the event even bigger this year, and offers a great opportunity for local families to improve their fitness. She explains what’s being planned:
“Preparations for Muirhouse Million Steps 2012 is well underway and this year’s event aims to be even more fun! In partnership with the Move It Project, Muirhouse Slimmers, Craigroyston Community High School and the Active Schools coordinator, Pilton Community Health Project is developing a new family fitness programme…. Motivate to Move or M2M.
M2M is a free eight week family fitness training programme which brings together great resources to enable up to eight 8 lucky families to improve their fitness and take part in the Muirhouse Million Steps. It is a pilot and place will be limited but a great prize for any family wanting to improve their families fitness with support from personal trainers.
The Muirhouse Million Steps 2012 will take place on Friday 28September. This year we are offering 8 local families the chance to win their own personal family fitness programme and to train for the Muirhouse Million Steps and beyond!!!!!!!! Each lucky local family will receive:
If you are interested, please apply to Lisa Arnott, Community Healthy Lifestyles Coordinator at
Pilton Community Health Project 73 Boswall Parkway EH5 2PW
or email: lisaarnott@pchp.org.uk or tel: 0131 551 1671.
