LHNCC area
Can Leith become the next zero-waste town?
(adapted from a communication from Changeworks)
Send in your views for a chance to win a £50 shopping voucher!
Leith based environmental charity, Changeworks, is looking to assess the potential of Leith becoming the next Zero Waste Town. This is your opportunity to tell us what you think about how waste is currently managed in Leith, and to input into Changeworks’ proposed project activities.
Share your views by completing this online survey by Friday 17 March 2017 and be entered into a £50 voucher prize draw*. Continue reading
LHNCC February agenda
click to download: 2017_02_28-agenda
Alcohol licensing information
- About Edinburgh’s licensing board: http://www.edinburgh.gov.uk/info/20023/licences_and_permits/960/edinburghs_licensing_board
- Applications for new premises licences and variations of existing premises licences (dealt with monthly at the Board) are available at http://www.edinburgh.gov.uk/downloads/download/825/alcohol_licence_registers. (Details of applications for Occasional Licences, updated weekly, are also at the same part of the website).
- The Council’s LSO Manager is Tom Veitch and the Police Scotland Licensing officer is Sergeant John Young, who is based at St Leonard’s Police Station.
- The Council’s Licensing Team is based at 249 High Street, Edinburgh – email licensing@edinburgh.gov.uk telephone 0131 529 4042
Save the date!
Leith Lives and other Leith projects
(adapted from an email from Leith Lives)
- Tuesday, February 21, 2017
- 2:30 PM to 4:00 PM
- People Know How Community Space, Top Floor, Ocean Terminal, Leith EH6 6JJ, Edinburgh
(Click the address to open a map in a new window.)
Find out more about how you can participate in Leith Lives, and how it can be used to promote the work of organisations based in Leith or working in Leith.
Hear more about some of the projects currently in progress in Leith.
Talk about your own project. If you have a project or proposed project you’d like to talk about, please let everybody know via Meetup, Twitter (@LeithLives), or Facebook (LeithLives.
Community Planning for People & Planet
Help set the environmental priorities for your Edinburgh Locality Improvement Plan 2017:
6 – 8pm Wed 1 March at Craigmillar Library, 101 Niddrie Mains Road, EH16 4DS
Book: https://lip-1mar.eventbrite.co.uk
Click here for more details: lip-ne-feb-2017-flyer (PDF)
Art Roots fund
What is it?
A fund created to enable and empower communities to make artistic and aesthetic improvements to the National Cycle Network (NCN), for the benefit of place quality, enjoyment and active travel.
Click here for more detail: artroots-fund (PDF).
Who can apply for a grant?
This fund is for constituted community groups, based in Scotland, with their own bank account. However, we will also consider applications from groups who can show that they are organised and committed, without a group bank account.
How much can be applied for?
Grants of up to £1,500 can be applied for. If the total cost of the project is more than £1,500 then evidence must be shown that the remaining cost is covered (match funding is encouraged for bigger projects).
Deadlines and Timescales
Complete and return your:
- Grant application form by 5pm on 10/02/17
- Grant claim form by 5pm on 19/05/17
- Final report by 5pm on 30/06/17
Youth work funding
(adapted from an email from David Hoy, Commissioning Officer, Communities and Families)
Are you interested in delivering open access youth work with young people aged 11 and over? Communities and Families is opening a participatory budgeting grant programme to support such work in 2017-18. Applications will be assessed by a team of young people and Council officers before a voting process for young people. It will be the combination of these two processes that will determine who is awarded funding. The total budget available is £60,000 with a minimum award level of £500 and the maximum award level of £10,000. The work should benefit young people in Edinburgh and can be locally based or citywide work.
Application packs will be available on the Edinburgh Compact website from 6th February and the closing date will be 3pm on 24th February.
Briefings for applicants will be held at Waverley Court on
- Tuesday 7th February 2pm
- Tuesday 7th February 5.30pm
- Tuesday 14th February 5.30pm
Please book a place by contacting CF.Commissioning@edinburgh.gov.uk
For further background to the grants programme please read the Youth Work Funding 2017-2019 report agreed by the Education, Children and Families Committee on 13th December 2016.
We will be sending out further information next week with a link to the Edinburgh Compact website where you will be able to download the application pack, however if you have any further questions then please contact us at CF.Commissioning@edinburgh.gov.uk
David Hoy | Commissioning Officer | Communities and Families | The City of Edinburgh Council | Business Centre 1.3, Waverley Court, 4 East Market Street, Edinburgh, EH8 8BG | Tel 0131 469 3457 | Fax 0131 529 6213
Grow for it!
(adapted from an email from North East locality)
The Grow For It 2017 funding is now open for applications!
We’re looking for talented and imaginative young people aged 12 – 25 to raise awareness about the importance of UK native wild flowers and plants.
With two funding options – Transform a Space and Get Creative – there’s something for everyone. Young people can apply today to be in with a chance of receiving £500 to bring their projects to life!
Successful projects will be selected by a judging panel of young people, from across the UK, who have previously been involved with Grow Wild.
Applying is easy! You just need to create a short video application and send it to us. Learn more about the funding options by watching the short videos below or click here for more information on how to apply.
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