Author: Bruce Ryan

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Leith Community Cinema – ‘Bride and Prejudice’

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Leith Community Cinema’s latest film showing is Bride and Prejudice, on Friday 18th March at 7pm.
Suggested entry is £3 although LCC accepts donations as people feel able.

On the night there will be food from Punjabi Junction (cost £2 per head) along with craft beer tasting and Indian dancing. Tickets can be reserved at www.leithcommunitycinema.com

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Easter Road Game Changer

(adapted from an email from Tahl Kaminer, Lecturer in Architectural Design and Theory, University of Edinburgh)

Hibernian Community Foundation, the charity arm of Hibernian FC, has launched Game Changer, an ambitious Public Social Partnership in collaboration with many partners, chief among them NHS Lothian and Edinburgh City Council.

‘The aim is to unlock the power and passion associated with football and to make greater use of all Hibernian’s physical, cultural and professional assets, to deliver a better, healthier future for the most vulnerable, disenfranchised or disadvantaged in our communities.’

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Interim election – update

Leith Harbour & Newhaven CC needs at least one new member to continue. But that’s not an upper limit – there are spaces for up to 7 new members. LHNCC will welcome new people to carry on its work on local matters.

If you live in LHNCC’s area*, you can nominate yourself between Monday 7 March and Wednesday 30th March. We’ll post about the nomination process as soon as we can.

If there are 8 or more valid nominations, then an election will be required – this would be notified on Monday 4 April and the polling day would be Monday 25 April 2016. However, if there are 7 or fewer valid nominations, the nominees will automatically become members of LHNCC.

*See also searchable CC finder on the national CC website

 

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Open data Edinburgh map – planning in context!

Greener Leith’s open data map of Edinburgh is now online at https://myleith.wordpress.com.

It brings several open datasets together in one place, including:

  • significant planned developments in the New Town & Broughton Community Council area (including links to the relevant documents on the CEC planning portal)
  • the wider urban planning context (housing land audit completions and schedule, local development plan, protected areas, listed buildings, open spaces, vacant and derelict land) Continue reading →
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Water of Leith Path clean up Sunday 28th February 10.30am – 1pm

(adapted from a post on Leith Links CC website)

Friends of the Water of Leith Basin

Hello

I took a walk along the WoL path recently to look at the spring flowers we planted  and was very disappointed by the amount of rubbish that has accumulated around Coalie Park and along the paths.

A joint cleanup has been arranged with the WoL Conservation trust for Sunday 28th February 10.30am – 1pm.

As usual we are meeting in Coalie Park – this link shows where it is:  http://www.streetmap.co.uk/map.srf?X=326617&Y=676480&A=Y&Z=110

Hope to see you there.
Best wishes

Don Giles

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Leith Neighbourhood Partnership News: Winter 2016

(adapted from an email from Leith Neighbourhood Partnership)

Alcohol in Leith

In 2014, local people said that alcohol was a factor in some of the issues which needed to be prioritised.  Those views are supported by statistical information which tells us that alcohol impacts on the Leith Neighbourhood Partnership area in a number of ways.

The City of Edinburgh’s Licensing Board regularly produce a statement on how they will carry out licensing in the city and the Partnership is asked to say how it would like this done in Leith.  The Partnership would like to be sure that what it says is the correct view of local people.  So it would like to know more about local people’s experience and views on alcohol. Continue reading →

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OneCity Trust Grant fund open for applications

The OneCity Trust is now open for funding applications. The deadline is 29 April 2016. Click the graphic for more information.

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Registered charities and constituted groups based in Edinburgh and focussing their work in the city with an annual income of less than £200,000 are invited to apply for funding for social inclusion projects.

Susan Shippey | Policy Consultant | Department of Health and Social Care | City of Edinburgh Council  |  Business Centre 1/8, 4 East Market Street | Edinburgh, EH8 8BG | Tel 0131 469 3874  |  Fax 0131 529 6217
email: susan.shippey@edinburgh.gov.uk