£EITH CHOOSES – last week for applications!
This is IT – you have three days left to get your project grant application in to £EITH CHOOSES – the deadline is 31 January 7pm.
You can hand your completed form (plus accompanying bits and pieces in at one of the support sessions. – check details of time and place here– if you’ve run out of time to post it. (If your form is held up at the last minute, let us know by the deadline and we can arrange to receive it somehow.)
Go for it! The application forms are really not too deadly to fill in, and we can help you at a support session, if necessary.
Download Guidance and Application Forms here.
Thing is – there is £116,000 available for community projects in Leith. This is an unprecedented sum. OK – everyone is busy and tired… but please, please, please don’t let this funding opportunity slip away, in case the money doesn’t come our way again….
Voting will be on 3rd March 2018, at the Community Centre, New Kirkgate. Hold the date!
Keep up to date via the £EITH CHOOSES own website, Facebook and Twitter.
Last week there was a protest in Leith Links outside the Abbot’s House hostel, against the Council’s use of B&Bs for homeless people, especially for families with young children. This Community Council supports the protesters and stands with the vulnerable people who suffer in this horrible situation, caused initially by Council and government cuts, benefit capping, sanctions and welfare ‘reforms’. This Community Council has questioned the use of such accommodation – in some cases, basically slums – in the area for many years, but the Council continues to pour money into the pockets of a few rich landlords, instead of building new houses or as a minimum in the short term, ensuring that temporary accommodation is at least safe and clean. This has reached crisis proportions as Edinburgh’s population grows, rents soar sky high, and cuts bite.
