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- Middle East Festival, 5 - 18 March
Edinburgh will be hosting a major festival on the Middle East from Friday 5 March – Thursday 18 March 2010 Events will include workshops and lectures covering the different spiritual traditions that were born in the region, the environment, and the arts. Amongst the distinguished speakers are the Keeper of the Botanic gardens and the playwright, David Greig. For full details click here....
- Siege of Leith Show - 21st March at 7pm - entry free
Citadel Arts Group are putting on a free reading of their Siege of Leith Show on Sunday 21st March at 7pm at the Out of the Blue Drill Hall, Dalmeny Street Entry is free and it promises to be a great evening. The Siege of Leith in 1560 saw Leith caught up in a struggle for power between England, France and Scotland. The full production will be staged at the Leith Festival in June. For details click here or visit www.citadelartsgroup.co.uk....
- Scottish coastal rowing reaches Newhaven
 The Scottish Fisheries Museum, Anstruther, started an initiative to rekindle coastal rowing in Scotland, with the intention to re-introduce inter-community rowing around the Scottish Coast. Until the 1950s it used to be a popular pasttime using locally constructed craft. In Shetland and in Cornwall the sport has already had a huge resurgence of interest in recent years with regular regattas taking place. One major consideration was to ensure that the entry into the sport is relatively inexpensive. They have achieved this by commissioning an internationally renowned Scottish boat designer to come up with traditional design which can be easily build...
- Next meeting of Granton History Society - Tuesday 23rd February - Starbank Inn
 Next Meeting The next meeting of the Granton History Society will be on Tuesday 23 February in the usual venue, the Starbank Inn. Jessie Denholm will be speaking about ‘Researching Granton War Memorial’. Jessie has spent a lot of time finding out the background to the men whose names are on the memorial at Granton Parish Church, and will be talking about her research. For more details click here Website Mrs Ballantine has kindly lent the Society an album of wartime photographs which were taken by her husband, Lieutenant Commander Ballantine, RNVR, between 1940 and 1942, on the HMS Queen...
- Read the Spurtle for February 2010
 Read the latest issue of the Broughton Spurtle for February 2010 by just clicking the picture. There are stories about the opening of new facilities at Broughton Parish Church, an art exhibition, poetry and all the latest community news....
- 20th Anniversary of Council of British Pakistanis (Scotland) and conference on 9th February
The Council of British Pakistanis (Scotland) is celebrating its 20th anniversary with a conference on the subject of immigration. There will be a wide spectrum of speakers, including Barbara Woodward, International Director of the UK Borders Agency. The conference will take place 2 - 4.30pm on Tuesday 9th February 2010 at the Symposium Hall of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh Hill Square, EH8 9DR For more details contact cbp_s@rediffmail.com...
- Police Community Newsletter for Inverleith - January 2010
 Just click the picture opposite for the January 2010 Police community newsletter for Inverleith with an introduction by new divisional commander, Gill Imery....
- Community Police Newsletter for Leith and Leith Walk - December 09
 Just click the picture opposite to read the Police community newsletter for Leith and Leith Walk for December 09....
- Latest Community Police Newsletter for December
 Just click the picture opposite to read the Community Beat Police Newsletter for December, covering New Town/Calton Hill, Old Town/Abbeyhill and West End/Grassmarket...
- Read the Spurtle for December 2009 here!
 Read the latest issue of the Spurtle for December here. Just click the picture....
- Leith Police Community Beat Newsletter for November
 Read the latest Leith Community Beat newsletter for November by just clicking the picture....
- Read the Spurtle for November 09 here
 Read the latest issue of the Spurtle for November 09 here by clicking the picture opposite....
- Citadel Arts Group
 Citadel Arts Group is a small professional theatre company with long-standing Leith connections and a strong record of working with communities. Their latest production ‘What Women Want’, about the Scottish suffragettes, was seen at the Edinburgh Fringe this summer. Another recent project was a tour of special schools and youth centres in Leith, which was funded by the Leith Neighbourhood Partnership. They’re currently seeking funding to produce a play about the 1560 Siege of Leith. This is to coincide with the 450th Anniversary of the Siege next year. The aim is to involve local people in the project and perform...
- Hospital grounds to be used as community gardens
 NHS Lothian is intending to develop the idea of community gardens for use by people with learning disabilities and psychiatric patients. The grounds of the Royal Edinburgh Hospital have been suggested as one site. To read NHS Lothian's briefing document, click here. The idea is not new. The hospital has an orchard in its grounds which patients used to look after but this stopped as there were fears that the work might be considered exploitative. Artlink, an Edinburgh arts organisation that works with disadvantaged or disabled people is trying to revive interest in the orchard as you can...
- Latest meeting of the Granton History Group, 24th November
 Granton History Group is an informal locally based group that researches, discusses and records the history of the Granton, Trinity and Wardie areas. To find out more visit their website, click here The next meeting of the group will be on Tuesday 24 November at 7:30 p.m. in the Starbank Inn, Laverockbank Road, Edinburgh, EH5 3BZ DAVID KING will speak about a local firm, ‘experts in stainless steel’, Turbulayr Products Ltd
who manufactured, among other things, the AERATONE BATH Come along and find out more!...
- Scottish Child Law Centre Race Night - Saturday 17th October
 The Scottish Child Law Centre is holding a fundraiser next Saturday, 17th October at The Police Club, 28 York Place, EH1 3EP The aim is to raise much needed funds for the only legal helpline and training service for and about children. It involves imaginary horses and gambling with much better odds than the lottery. Aside from the horses, there will be a disco, a buffet and karaoke. Tickets are only £5 so come and help contribute to a very worthy cause. You can come for the whole evening or just an hour or two as you like. For full...
- Freegle - an alternative to Freecycle - free giving, locally, easily
Edinburgh is part of a new online re-use network called Freegle formed in the UK as a friendly alternative to Freecycle. Freegle's sole objective is to enable individuals to 'do their bit' by keeping household goods out of landfill by giving away things they don't want, to people who can use them. This will be a truly grassroots co-operative run by and for local people. It was created in mid September, and in the first four days 127 local groups representing about 560,000 members moved to the new co-operative umbrella organisation, and many more are expected to follow in the...
- Exhibition by Joyce Gunn Cairns in Hendersons Restaurant
 Over thirty head drawings by the distinguished Edinburgh artist, Joyce Gunn Cairns, of well-known Scottish figures from across the cultural divide are being exhibited, for an indefinite period, in Hendersons Restaurant in Hanover Street, Edinburgh. Opposite is one of the pictures - this one is of the writer, Esther Woolfson. To learn more, visit Joyce’s website at http://www.joycegunncairns.com/...
- North Edinburgh Trust launches its Climate Challenge, Saturday 26th September
The North Edinburgh Trust is launching its climate challenge at the North Edinburgh Community Festival in Forthquarter Park, Granton this Saturday, 26th September from 11 to 4pm This is a chance to learn more about climate change and also how to cut your fuel bills. For full details click the picture on the left....
- Spotlight on Leith - news for and about local buisinesses
The first Spotlight on Leith - a newsletter on businesses in the area - has just been published. There is a lot happening locally and to read about it click the picture opposite....
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