Urban Union are lighting up Muirhouse Shopping Centre agains this festive season – come and join the happy throng for a Christmas Tree light up and a visit from Santa today from 4 – 6pm!
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Part of the Union!
On the first Monday of each month a top team from Urban Union meets at Muirhouse Millennium Community Centre to ensure that Pennywell redevelopment progress is on track.
We wish you well and look forward to a new and improved Muirhouse
Pictured (left to right):
Robin McAndie ( Quantity Surveyor), Rachael Fraser (Project Manager), Steven Anderson (Technical Manager), Caroline Wallace (Commercial Manager)
To learn more about Urban Union click: HERE
JAMES McGINTY
Many hands make light work in Muirhouse Avenue
There’s a mighty team effort taking place in Muirhouse Avenue right now. Muirhouse Centipede Project are putting the land not currently being built on to good use and are now preparing the ground for a community amphitheatre and performance area.
It’s a lot of work – it’s a lot of space! – but volunteers from Craigroyston Community High School, Tomorrow’s People, Scottish Widows, Community Action North, Scottish Gas, the Haven Project’s Dad’s Group and North Edinburgh Arts are really getting stuck in!
You’ll already see an amazing difference … and today 130 tyres will arrive for the next stage of the operation! Get involved!
More pictures on our Facebook page
Tenants get the keys to their new homes in Pennywell
City council Housing Convener Councillor Cammy Day met with tenants for a tour of the newest completed homes at the award-winning Pennywell site yesterday. The new tenants were viewing the block and meeting their Grieve Crescent neighbours for the first time.
Continue reading Tenants get the keys to their new homes in Pennywell
Tread carefully in Muirhouse Avenue!
COME AND FILL A TYRE …
The Centipede Project, in partnership with the City of Edinburgh Council, has been developing the fields along Muirhouse Avenue into a temporary play space for the past few months. Continue reading Tread carefully in Muirhouse Avenue!
To me it’s Home: reflections on a community
Premiere – Wednesday 20 April at 7pm
North Edinburgh Arts
I hope you will be able to join us here at North Edinburgh Arts on the evening of Wednesday 20 April at 7pm to enjoy the premiere of ‘To Me it’s Home; Reflections on a Community’.
Made by Angelica Kroeger, this short film features many members of our community.
Funded by Urban Union, as part of the Arts Strategy led by NEA, the film is one of the first artworks created by this ongoing programme. It endeavours to capture a lyrical snapshot our community in a time of change. The film lasts just over ten minutes and we will be serving refreshments in the café afterwards.
Kate Wimpress
Director, North Edinburgh Arts
‘To me it’s Home’: Muirhouse the movie
NORTH EDINBURGH ARTS
Wednesday 20 April, 7pm
A film by Angelica Kroeger
Supported by Urban Union
A new heart for Pennywell
Green light for £1.5 million Shopping Centre transformation
Muirhouse Shopping Centre is to be transformed through a £1.52 million Regeneration Grant, it’s been announced. The cash will see sections of the run-down centre demolished and replaced to give the area a new ‘civic heart’ (writes Dave Pickering). Continue reading A new heart for Pennywell
Can we have a Christmas tree? Yes we CAN!
Community celebrates despite deluge
It lashed down with rain all afternoon and into the evening – a real Muirhouse monsoon! – but local people came out in their droves to see the Christmas tree lights being switched on in Muirhouse Shopping Centre last night.
Craigroyston High School’s Josh Hardwick did the honours and kicked off an evening of music, food and fun that seemed to get everyone in the festive mood!
So many people to thank:
- Craigroyston Community High School for sharing their wonderful musical talents – the band and the choir were superb.
- Local schools Oaklands, Rowanfield, Pirniehall, St David’s, Forthview and Craigroyston for creating the beautiful snowflakes that now adorn the centre
- Fleurtations for delivering, erecting and decoration the tree
- Urban Union for supplying the Christmas tree
- The City of Edinburgh Council for their support and advice throughout
- Weber Shandwick for getting things done
- North Edinburgh Arts staff for their wonderful support: particularly John for his technical wizardry, Michelle and her team for the fabulous food (and wonderful winter punch!) and for sharing her artistic skills to make the shopping centre look great
- Local police for supervising the event
- The Tomorrow’s People team for all their hard work in decorating the Centre and making the event such a success.
- Santa for … well, just being Santa!
- And finally, the children and families of North Edinburgh who came out on such a horrible night to support the event. Comments have been overwhelmingly positive – maybe we’ll try another event in the New Year?
Thanks, everyone!
Andy & Dave, Community Action North (CAN)
Our day in pictures (below)
There are more on Facebook too …
Tree-mendous: Christmas arrives in Muirhouse!
Tonight’s the night at Muirhouse Shopping Centre
Dull old Muirhouse Shopping Centre will be transformed into a local winter wonderland tonight when Community Action North (CAN) kicks the Christmas season off in style!
Why are we doing this? During the first phase of the Community Action North project we spoke to dozens of local groups and hundreds of local people – and one of their biggest complaints was about the state of the shopping centre. Everyone agrees it’s not the most welcoming environment, so we decided to do something about it – even if only temporarily. And when Urban Union kindly offered to donate a real Christmas tree we thought: if places like Corstorphine, Morningside and Stockbridge can have public Christmas trees, why not Muirhouse too?
It’s taken a while to organise and has presented a number of challenges – I’m sure Santa’s Christmas present run is easier to plan – but we’re almost there and tonight we hope local people will join us to celebrate our community at a very special time of year.
We’ve been working away to make the Centre look a little bit brighter – children from the local primary schools created some brilliant snowflake stencils and these are now being painted on the walls by a team from Tomorrow’s People, supported by Austeja from North Edinburgh Arts.
Our Christmas tree, a mighty twenty-two foot Norwegian Spruce, was delivered and erected yesterday and will be decorated today. We’ll also be adding some more lights around the Centre to give it that festive feel. There’s still a lot to be done, but we’ll get there!
So what could possibly go wrong? Well, quite a lot – as many local people have been quick to point out! However we’ve looked at all the possibilities, we’ve weighed up all the risks and we’re giving it a go. Christmas is a time of hope, of new beginnings and more than anything it’s about children – and we believe our local children deserve to have their own tree, here in their community.
Among tonight’s highlights:
- Christmas Tree lighting ceremony
- Music from Craigroyston Community High School
- Free festive food and drink at North Edinburgh Arts
- Sweets for the children
- A visit from Santa
- An opportunity to hear about CAN – what CAN can do for you, for groups and for our community
The festive fun kicks off at 5pm. Santa Claus is coming to Pennywell tonight – we hope you will too!
Andy and Dave, Community Action North CAN
