Edinburgh will be the first stop on the baton’s final journey through Scotland and will pass through the following communities on Saturday 14 June 2014:

• Riccarton
• City Centre
• Meadowbank
• Leith
• Portobello
• Duddingston
• Newington
• South Queensferry.

Further street level details and a full programme of local and city wide events will be announced in the coming weeks.

The relay route will reflect the important role of sport by visiting schools, sporting facilities and leisure centres, encouraging communities to get behind Team Scotland, get involved with the Games and using its profile to get more people participating in sport.

We will continue to promote Edinburgh’s role in Glasgow 2014 to residents and specifically to those communities through which the baton will be carried.

The full press release from Glasgow 2014 and the City of Edinburgh Council’s supportive quote will be through the Council’s news centre this morning.

For further information contact:

David Waddell, Senior Events Officer

David.waddell@edinburgh.gov.uk

Tel: 529 4929

Or for Communications issues:

Lesley McPherson, Chief Communications Officer

Lesley.mcpherson@edinburgh.gov.uk

Tel: 0131 529 4030

Where: Riddle’s Court, 322 Lawnmarket, Edinburgh, EH1 2PG

When: Thursday, 22 May 2014 from 10:00 to 16:30

Who: Prince’s Regeneration Trust

Cost: £15.75 + VAT and processing fee. £25 per person travel bursaries are available

Here’s the full announcement:

The Prince’s Regeneration Trust has recently started a new UK wide training and mentoring programme – Building Resources, Investment and Community Knowledge (BRICK). BRICK is a three year programme funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund and a number of corporate sponsors, and it is aimed at community groups taking forward heritage-led regeneration projects. For further information about BRICK please see here:http://www.princes-regeneration.org/resources/BRICK.

The second in the series of BRICK workshops will take place in Edinburgh on 22 May 2014. The day-long event will bring together community groups in Scotland and beyond, interested in learning about:

•  Ideas to options – Developing creative options for the reuse of historic buildings and sites
•  Funding journey – Funding strategies and effective management
•  Innovative financing – Social investment and community banking.

Speakers include representatives of Scottish Historic Buildings Trust, Purcell, The Royal Bank of Scotland and Social Investment Scotland, alongside The Prince’s Regeneration Trust.  The event will also feature interactive sessions and surgeries with the speakers, as well as a tour of the venue – itself a regeneration project. The event will be chaired by Rosie Fraser, The Prince’s Regeneration Trust’s Operations Director.

We are contacting you because we believe that you may be interested in this workshop. We encourage all community groups and all those involved in community lead regeneration projects to take the opportunity to learn through BRICK over the next three years. Further information about BRICK events will be disseminated through various heritage and regeneration agencies and membership organisations, local and regional press, social networking sites (Facebook and Twitter), email and via our new BRICK web site once that is up and running.

If you think that the workshop in Edinburgh might benefit you and would like to attend, please note that a registration fee of just under £20 per person will apply. This includes the cost of lunch & refreshments, online registration charges and VAT. A small number of travel bursaries are available on application.

To register for the event please follow the link: http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/brick-workshop-2-edinburgh-tickets-11398696809 .

We would also be grateful if you could pass along details for this event to any other contacts or community groups that you think may benefit from attending.

Please do not hesitate to contact us at BRICKworkshops@princes-regeneration.org if you have any questions or require further information. Apologies for any cross-posting.

Kind regards

The BRICK Team
Building Resources, Investment and Community Knowledge
The Prince’s Regeneration Trust
14 Buckingham Palace Road, London, SW1W 0QP
T: 020 3262 0560  F: 020 3262 0570
E: BRICKworkshops@princes-regeneration.org
W: www.princes-regeneration.org

What: call for evidence about antisocial noise policy
Where: via web(?)
When: 22nd May 2014
Who: 22nd May 2014
Cost: nil

Here’s the full announcement:

Please see the link to a consultation on the Scottish Government website.

http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2014/05/9660

This is a Call for Evidence to support a policy review of the noise regime under the Antisocial Behaviour (Scotland ) Act 2004 Part 5. The noise provisions which came into force in 2005 introduced a fixed penalty notice deterrent for domestic noise offences for any part of the day or night.

The regime is being reviewed with the objectives of ensuring that the implementing regulations and guidance remains fit for purpose.  The consultation runs till 25 August 2014.

I have also attached a flyer (PDF) which we are running in conjunction with Environmental Protection Scotland.  Places are limited and if you wish to attend please use the contact details on the flyer.

Please feel free to forward this email to others in your organisation.

Linda Story
Policy Advisor
Pollution & Strategic Delivery
Environmental Quality Division
Scottish Government
Area 1H North
Victoria Quay
Edinburgh
EH6 6QQ
tel. 0131 244 1521
fax. 0131 244 0211 e-mail : linda.story@scotland.gsi.gov.uk

Did you know that Noise Action Week 2013 is taking place between 19th and 24th May? Find out more about this initiative to tackle local noise problems atwww.noiseactionweek.org.uk.  

Where: Starting at The Tourmalet, on Iona Street

When: 2pm, 1st June

Click for more details: https://www.facebook.com/TheTourmaletEh68sq/posts/665624850177805