Topic: Community

FIRST Minister Alex Salmond has officially launched the expansion of Erskine Home for Veterans in Edinburgh yesterday morning.

The chair of Moredun Community Centre's management committee has moved to quash suggestions that a new centre is to be built using £2m of lottery grant money.

The Edinburgh South Youth Forum is a new organisation for and about young people.  If you're between 12 and 21 years old and live, work or study in South Edinburgh then we're looking for you!

Gilmerton Community Centre will be among those celebrating International Women's Day early next month, with workshops set on creative, musical and artistic themes, writes Stuart Wilson.

 

The chair of Burdiehouse/Southhouse Community Centre's management committee says the area will benefit "hugely" from City of Edinburgh Council's decision to ensure a new centre is built.

 

A scathing Council report on the services offered by Gracemount Youth and Community Centre has been deemed "a work of fiction" by the centre's board.

May I take this opportunity to thank families from the area for supporting a child through the Glasgow Children’s Holiday Scheme, by being hosts for a week during the school summer holidays last year and to wish them all a Happy New Year.

Inspector Steven Paul, who has been based at Howdenhall for some years now, has moved to pastures new.  Taking the reigns is Glenn Milne, the new Sector Inspector for the Howdenhall area.

I’m writing my final entry in the Echo from a new desk, as I, like so many others featured in this paper, have taken that big step and set themselves up in a business of my own.

Are you interested in different countries and cultures?  Would you like to share the life-changing experiences of a young person?