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Last chance to respond to Edinburgh Shoreline community survey

Edinburgh Shoreline is all about celebrating the hugely diverse cultural and natural heritage of our coast! We’d like to encourage as many people as possible to get involved and help us celebrate. Over the next 12 months we’ll have lots of opportunities for people to join us on our journey, taking part in walks, talks, wildlife surveys, workshops and seminars to name a few.

Do you have something you would like to contribute to the Shoreline project? Perhaps you’d like to lead a photography walk, create a piece of community artwork, invite people to see your community garden or create a film about your area. We can help!

We can support you to come up with ideas for events and projects, provide template marketing tools and add you to our events diary to help you publicise. We can also provide you with training on making mini-documentaries to tell the story of your project, which can also be added to our website.

We’d love to hear what you could contribute to the Edinburgh Shoreline project in helping locals and tourists alike understand that our coast has an amazing past, present and future. All ideas are welcome!

Just a quick reminder that we are coming to the end of collecting your responses to our survey. We’re looking for the ways that you’d like to get involved in the Edinburgh Shoreline project.
There’s still time to submit your responses until 30th April here: https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/JTKYBGK

Have your say on on-street recycling bins

Edinburgh residents’ views sought on on-street recycling bins

Householders living in flats in Edinburgh are being asked for their views on the shared on-street bins used to collect rubbish and recycling in a survey carried out by Changeworks. The results of this consultation will help the City of Edinburgh Council identify current barriers to recycling and improve the service. Continue reading Have your say on on-street recycling bins

Auld Reekie: glad to be gay?

Edinburgh features in world’s top 30 LGBT+ friendly cities

  • Madrid is top in the 2017 Best LGBT Cities List, scoring an impressive 23.56 out of a possible 25

  • Berlin ranks first in the LGBT nightlife category but only sixth overall, held back by LGBT rights laws in Germany

  • Tel Aviv is the highest ranking city outside of Europe and North America, ranking as the fourth best LGBT city

Furnished housing aggregator, Nestpick, has conducted one of the largest studies of its kind, researching the world’s best cities for the LGBT+ community. Five factors were investigated in order to understand which cities offer the best quality of life for those who identify under the LGBT initials. Nestpick conducted the study as part of Pride Month, releasing the results on June 28th, an important date historically for the gay liberation movement, marking the 48th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots.

To make the list truly comprehensive and inclusive, thousands of cities were considered in the development stage. Polls were conducted amongst the LGBT community in 80 countries, using social media and other polling tools. More than 2,500 participants from each city were asked to give three lifestyle factors a rating out of five: the strength of their city’s gay dating scene, the quality of its LGBT nightlife, and the openness of their fellow citizens. A final shortlist of the 100 cities with the best poll results was then created.

Two additional categories were measured for the cities in the final shortlist: safety and the rights of LGBT citizens. These factors were included in order to recognise that although some cities offer an attractive lifestyle, a lot may still need to be done to protect people from hate crime and to give them equal rights. Information on the rights of LGBT citizens at a national level was provided by national and regional governments of each country, and data regarding the safety of the LGBT community was provided by local and national authorities.

“It’s no coincidence that the world’s most exciting cities have a strong LGBT community, contributing much to the dynamism, openness and prosperity which defines locations such as Madrid, Amsterdam and Berlin”, said Ömer Kücükdere, Managing Director of Nestpick.

The ten top scoring cities worldwide are:

Rank

City

Dating Scene

LGBT Nightlife

Openness in the City

Safety Score

LGBT Rights

Total

1

Madrid

4.63

4.87

4.87

4.19

5

23.56

2

Amsterdam

4.81

4.66

4.72

4.07

5

23.26

3

Toronto

4.60

4.57

4.78

3.74

5

22.69

4

Tel Aviv

4.72

4.81

4.81

4.23

4

22.57

5

London

4.94

4.97

4.94

2.61

5

22.46

6

Berlin

4.97

5.00

4.97

3.95

3

21.89

7

Brighton

4.15

4.45

4.66

3.54

5

21.80

8

Barcelona

4.84

4.78

4.75

2.41

5

21.78

9

New York City

5.00

4.94

4.91

2.85

4

21.70

10

San Francisco

4.75

4.84

5.00

3.02

4

21.61

Click here for the full list of 100 cities: https://www.nestpick.com/best-lgbt-cities/

Edinburgh scored 19.33 points out of a possible 25 and ranked in position 29 out of a possible 100, with the following scores and rankings:

Rank

Dating Scene Score

Dating Scene Rank

LGBT Nightlife Score

LGBT Nightlife Rank

Openness in the City

Openness in the City Rank

Safety Score

Safety Score Rank

LGBT Rights Score

Total

29

3.09

64

3.57

48

3.27

58

4.40

16

5

19.33

As scores for LGBT Rights were between 1-5 as whole figures, many cities scored the same amount. A ranking was therefore not included above, with many locations having tied in score.

10 UK cities were included in the ranking, with the following results:

Rank

City

Dating Scene

LGBT Nightlife

Openness in the City

Safety Score

LGBT Rights

Total

5

London

4.94

4.97

4.94

2.61

5

22.46

7

Brighton

4.15

4.45

4.66

3.54

5

21.80

13

Manchester

4.54

4.60

4.54

2.65

5

21.33

20

Bristol

3.60

4.24

4.24

3.66

5

20.74

29

Edinburgh

3.09

3.57

3.27

Terrorist attack is biggest fear, public tell Police

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The threat of terrorism is the main issue of concern to people across Scotland, according to the first results from Police Scotland’s new online survey, ‘Your View Counts’. Edinburgh citizens highlighted housebreaking and antisocial behaviour as their main concerns. Continue reading Terrorist attack is biggest fear, public tell Police

Voluntary Sector survey: still time to share your views

compact_email_bannerThe Edinburgh Compact Partnership has had a brilliant response to our 2015 Compact Survey so far – many thanks for all who have participated.

However, we still need to hear about YOUR Third Sector organisation for our Compact Voice 2015 Survey!

All the information provided from last year’s survey was published in this infographic style Compact Voice 2014/15 report. This went to the Council and other Public Sector Organisations and has helped provide Third Sector input in decision making.

The survey takes about 20 minutes to complete. We know this is quite a time commitment but we promise the results will be shared widely – take the survey now.

Thanks for helping us get a picture! 

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What do you think of Drylaw Neighbourhood Centre?

Drylaw Neighbourhood Centre survey

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Are you are a regular visitor to Drylaw Neighbourhood Centre? Have you attended groups or events in the Centre in the past? Or maybe you’ve never heard of Drylaw Neighbourhood Centre!

Whatever your experience, Drylaw Neighbourhood Centre want to hear from you – there’s a free entry to a prize draw for everyone who completes the survey (below):

https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/DrylawNC

 

Do the seaside survey

Please see below for details of a new survey on Marine Tourism and Recreation and details of how you can take part:

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Dear member, 

The first results of the marine tourism and recreation survey are in and they look promising. In the first four weeks we have had almost 1000 responses across 20 activities. Most people have listed more than one activity and so that means we could have approaching 4000 records of where people use the coast and what for. Great news for tourism and recreation in the new world of marine planning as they can be more confident that their interests and views will be taken into account in future decision making.

This is great news but there is no time to relax!!

Returns on activities vary, we are looking for more responses from niche interests such as long distance swimming but also from more popular activities such as angling, rowing, visiting historical sites, motor boat cruising and windsurfing.

Although we have done a lot to promote the survey, through social media (there is both a  Facebook page and a twitter feed), through partner organisations and thousands of direct emails, postcards and letters, the personal touch is without a doubt the best way to spread the word and that is where I ask you to help make this the best survey of the sector ever.

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Please can you send on the survey to anyone you can think of who may have been to the coast or used the sea for recreation? They could be a family friend who you only ever see on facebook building sand castles, it could be your daughter whose friends are mad about dinghy racing, it could be your colleagues who get together to go for a walk from time to time and occasionally go to the coast or it could be your organisations core business! Please make sure that everyone you can think of has had a chance to have a look at the survey.

Of course there is also the business survey. Anyone who runs a business which relies in some way on the marine environment should fill this one in. A one man band, a bed and breakfast in a coastal town, a marina, boat yard or tour operator!

All you have to do is click here – http://www.marinerecreationandtourism.scot/survey/

 Thank you.

Sarah Brown

Project Manager, Firth of Clyde Forum

www.clydeforum.com

07774 160931

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