Category Archives: News and Events

Volunteer Recruitment Fair: Wednesday 20 September

(adapted from a communication from Volunteer Edinburgh, forwarded by Edinburgh Council)

Volunteer Edinburgh will welcome more than 50 organisations to Scotland’s largest volunteer recruitment fair on Wednesday, 20 September 2017 between 11.00am and 7.00pm at St Paul’s and St Georges Church on York Place.

The Fair will showcase the wide range of ways that people can get involved in volunteering with organisations big and small, local and national, who serve a diverse range of communities and causes all coming together with one common aim – to attract new volunteers.

Entry is free to the public, and more than a thousand potential volunteers are expected to visit and experience the diverse range of ways they can become involved. Continue reading →

Edinburgh Local Development Plan – scheme 2017

(adapted from an email from Edinburgh Council)

Edinburgh Council has published a new Development Plan Scheme.  The Scheme is available
to view online at: www.edinburgh.gov.uk/localdevelopmentplan.

The Development Plan Scheme will also be available for inspection from 11 September 2017 at the Council’s offices at the Planning front desk, Waverley Court, 4 East Market Street, Edinburgh and in Council libraries.

The Scheme explains that the first Local Development Plan was formally adopted in November 2016.  Since then the Council has gathered feedback from stakeholders to help improve preparations for the next Local Development Plan – LDP 2.  That feedback is now available online at: www.edinburgh.gov.uk/localdevelopmentplan.

The Scheme also outlines the timetable for LDP 2.  That will be updated in a new Development Plan Scheme to be published in 2018.

Save London Road Church campaign

LCCC unanimously supports Save London Rd Church campaign‘s aim of a community buy-out to provide amenities for the local area. Details of the campaign are on its Facebook page, but in brief, they aim to repurpose the building as a hub for the local community. Suggested uses include:

  • a meeting space
  • personal fitness (exercise classes, yoga, etc)
  • dance and sport
  • community groups (scouts, guides, brownies, knitting, cards, model railway, dolls houses
  • a home for local welfare services
  • community cinema
  • theatre, music
  • exhibiting art and crafts
  • an overnight shelter during some of the winter period for homeless people
  • a polling station for local elections

These activities all fall well within LCCC’s aims to represent and support its community, so LCCC is very happy to support this campaign.

LCCC June minutes – final version

With apologies for delay, please click to download the approved minutes for LCCC’s June 2017 meeting: 2017_06_19 final.

Delay was due to

  1. The draft minutes could not be approved until LCCC met in August. (In common with many CCs, LCCC does not meet in July.)
  2. LCCC’s minutes secretary and web-weaver was unavailable for some of August and September due to personal and work commitments.

School Food and Feeding the Mind

(adapted from an email from ‘Holyrood Policy’)

School Food and Feeding the Mind: Opportunity, Encouragement and Education

Edinburgh | Tue 12 September 2017 | 10.00 – 15.00

As the holidays finish and the new school term begins, the subject of school
food is very much back on the menu.

Holyrood’s School Food and Feeding the Mind event will provide a timely
platform for debate and discussion around the importance and priorities of
school food provision and the wider impact of food education. Continue reading →