News

We’ve shared our December 2024 e-newsletter which can be viewed online. We share an e-newsletter at the start of each month with various information such as centre information, news and events. You can view the e-newsletter by clicking here.

An opportunity has arisen to join our Board of Trustees as Treasurer during an exciting time of development in which we are investing in new services and facilities, but also during a time of challenge as we focus on achieving a sustainable future.

As Treasurer you will support the Board to help manage its financial resources. Although you will take the lead in overseeing strong financial management, you will be aided by our Chief Executive and our very supportive accountants, as well as your fellow Trustees.

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We are looking for two people to work with us on Sundays until March. Click here for more information.

We would like to thank the Arnold Clark Community Fund who have kindly awarded us £1,000 to support activities within the centre. Every pound of external funding we get makes a real difference to the services on offer within the centre.

We are very happy to have been awarded £7,000 by the National Lottery towards upgrading the facilities in our hall. Using £7,000 from the National Lottery, and £5,000 of our own funds will allow us to install a 5m projector screen and a new sound system.

Thank you to lottery players who have made this National Lottery award possible.

We are pleased to announce that we are now open every Saturday and Sunday from 9:30am until 4:30pm. This is in response to an increasing number of community requests to be more easily accessible at weekends.

If you would like to make a booking to use our community space please click on this link.

To celebrate us moving to seven day a week opening we are offering very low cost room & hall hire on Saturdays for community activities.

The small print;

Bookings must take place on Saturdays, between 9:30am & 4:30pm, during September & October 2024.
The activities / events taking place must be community ones.
It must not cost participants more than a couple of pounds to take part.
Bookings can be for one off events or activities, or a series of activities.

Contact us to discuss availability and to make a booking.

Thanks to funding from the Edinburgh Thrive Arts: Small Grants Programme we’ll be delivering ten workshops during October 2024 around using smartphones for positive mental wellbeing, and although we ourselves at Southside based, participants can be from groups anywhere in the city.

Participants will be supported to develop an understanding of how photography can be a useful tool to support positive mental wellbeing, followed by time to take photographs in & around our community centre, exploring the theme of ‘In/Visible’. Our photographer shall provide advice and practical support on taking great images.

The ‘In/Visible’ theme is a chance to explore what it means to be ‘visible’ or ‘invisible’ when we think about our mental health. Which aspects of our mental health we keep hidden and which we feel able to share for example.

We would like to thank Edinburgh University for granting us £500 this month to our sixty plus activity club for materials.

Our sixty plus activity group brings older people together to connect through conversation, company, a cuppa and a range of activities, as part of our work to reduce isolation and loneliness.

Southside Community Centre

0131 667 0484

0131 667 0484