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Helping communities affected by COVID-19

(from the Scottish Government website)

An additional £350 million will go to those most affected by the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.

The funding will be made available to councils, charities, businesses and community groups and designed to be flexible, cutting down on red tape to enable them to respond swiftly and according to local need for people impacted economically or through reduced contact with society, including anyone struggling to access food.

Read more here: https://www.gov.scot/news/helping-communities-affected-by-covid-19/

 

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CityPlan 2030 update

(with apologies for the delay in posting this)

Following current government guidance on Covid-19, the final Choices for City Plan drop-in event scheduled to take place on Thursday 19 March 2020 at the St Bride’s Community Centre was cancelled.

If you had been planning to attend and/or have any questions about Choices for City Plan 2030, please contact the City Plan team and we will do our best to answer your queries.  You can contact us via email cityplan2030@edinburgh.gov.uk or via telephone 0131 529 4692.

The Choices for City Plan online consultation will remain open for you to let us know your comments until 31 March 2030.

A new Development Plan Scheme outlining the proposed schedule to take City Plan 2030 to the Proposed Plan stage will be presented to Committee later in 2020.

You can keep up to date with the project and any changes by:

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Coronavirus: Edinburgh Council’s latest

(copied from tweets from CEC. NTBCC will add this to our sticky post very soon)

If you have Coronavirus symptoms you must put your personal waste (eg tissues and disposable cleaning cloths) in a plastic rubbish bag, tie it when full, then double bag it by putting it in another bag. After 72 hours you can put it outside in your grey or black lidded bin.

From Monday we’re suspending blue box collections for glass because of staff shortages. You can find out what to do with your glass, as well as more updates on changes to bin collections here bit.ly/2UrhpUD. We really appreciate your patience & understanding about this.

Original tweets are here (https://twitter.com/Edinburgh_CC/status/1241079591709618176?s=20 and https://twitter.com/Edinburgh_CC/status/1241338776087072768?s=20

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Coronavirus information sources

The following information is also on the ‘sticky’ post at the top of our website: https://lhncc.org.uk/2020/03/17/march-lhncc-meeting-cancelled/. We will keep that post updated as appropriate, so why not bookmark it?

You can find relevant information about the Kirkgate and coronavirus at https://leithcommunitycentre.org.uk/coronavirus.

The guidance from the Scottish Government is here: https://www.gov.scot/coronavirus-covid-19.

Here are some other sources of advice about coronavirus:

 

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March LHNCC meeting cancelled

The LHNCC meeting that would be on Tuesday 24 March is cancelled.

This is in part because our normal venue, the Leith Community Education Centre (the ‘Kirkgate’) is closed due to the coronavirus. The other reason is that LHNCC wishes to act sensibly for its members, residents and other visitors.

We will keep you informed with updates on our website and social media.

As regards future meetings before our AGM in June, we will review holding these based upon the urgency of any matters in our regular business and anything arising that requires our timeous response.

You can find relevant information about the Kirkgate and coronavirus at https://leithcommunitycentre.org.uk/coronavirus.

The guidance from the Scottish Government is here: https://www.gov.scot/coronavirus-covid-19.

Here are some other sources of advice about coronavirus:

Update on Saturday 21 March, copied from tweets from CEC

If you have Coronavirus symptoms you must put your personal waste (eg tissues and disposable cleaning cloths) in a plastic rubbish bag, tie it when full, then double bag it by putting it in another bag. After 72 hours you can put it outside in your grey or black lidded bin.

From Monday we’re suspending blue box collections for glass because of staff shortages. You can find out what to do with your glass, as well as more updates on changes to bin collections here bit.ly/2UrhpUD. We really appreciate your patience & understanding about this.

Original tweets are here (https://twitter.com/Edinburgh_CC/status/1241079591709618176?s=20 and https://twitter.com/Edinburgh_CC/status/1241338776087072768?s=20)

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Community Councils Together on Trams/Trams Team meeting, 27 February 2020

Minutes of the Community Councils Together on Trams/Trams Team meeting (No 2 Construction Phase) at 165 Leith Walk on Thursday 27 February at 5:30pm Continue reading →

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Community benefits toolkit, webinar and more

(adapted from an email from Local Energy Scotland. LHNCC is simply passing on this information, and neither endorses or recommends against Local Energy Scotland and Foundation Scotland.)

Local Energy Scotland (LES) recently reported that over £20m has gone to communities across Scotland in the last 12 months from Community Benefits from renewable energy projects.  This is an amazing landmark milestone to reach, especially when you consider the real and transformational difference that community benefits can have for communities. LES would like to use this opportunity to remind you of the free and impartial support available from them to help with planning for, managing and evaluating community benefits.

  • We have launched a new, free Community Benefits Toolkit, developed in partnership with Foundation Scotland. This step-by-step guide is full of practical information, case studies and examples and is available on the Local Energy Scotland website.
  • An enablement grant to help community groups identify the needs and aspirations of their community, or to support the securing and setting up of community funds
  • Frameworks of Contractors to help community groups select legal, financial, project management and community engagement services quickly and with confidence.
  • Case studies to show how communities have benefited
  • A Community Benefit Register that details community benefits provision across Scotland – don’t forget to add your community’s details if you are already in receipt of community benefits.

Find all of this information and more by visiting https://www.localenergy.scot/community-benefits/

Local Energy Scotland | Ocean Point 1 | 94 Ocean Drive | Edinburgh | EH6 6JH

Direct Dial 0131 555 7915 | Reception 0131 555 7900

 

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£eith Chooses Feedback Night – everyone welcome!

A reminder that the £eith Chooses Feedback Night will be in the Kirkgate Community Centre at 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday 10 March.
We really do need everyone’s comments no matter whether they volunteered, were from an applicant group in the main hall, attended to vote OR even did not attend for any reason, and would like to tell us ‘why’.
This is a great opportunity to have your say and to meet with the Steering Group in person, engage with others who have an interest in £eith Chooses and above all to shape things for the future.