• Travelling Gallery announces final section of 2023 programme

    14th September 2023

    Travelling Gallery is pleased to announce its season three tour, the final part of its 2023 programme, which takes a new approach to touring with environmental concerns and community partnerships at its heart. Season three hits the road this Friday (15 September 2023) with the first stop at Edinburgh’s Calton…

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  • Recycle your tech for a good cause!

    12th September 2023

    Residents in Edinburgh are being encouraged to hand in their unwanted laptops, phones, tablets, cameras and chargers to be refurbished and repaired for reuse as well as being passed on to people who suffer from digital poverty. The City of Edinburgh Council has partnered with the Edinburgh Remakery, an award-winning…

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  • A new haven for Hutchison as Edinburgh’s ‘Growing Together’ project beds in

    8th September 2023

    Housing estates are in store for a bumper harvest thanks to a number of new and growing community gardens in the Capital. The Edinburgh Growing Together project, which began gardening last year after a survey of plots in 2021, has reported a busy summer with new planters and raised beds being…

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  • Five years of progress for Edinburgh and South East Scotland City Region Deal

    5th September 2023

      Five years after it was signed by the Prime Minister and First Minister, the Edinburgh and South East Scotland City Region Deal has helped 15,000 people secure employment, and improved the skills and knowledge of over 103,000 of the region’s citizens. The delivery milestones are captured in the Deal’s latest…

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  • Council Leader marks International Overdose Awareness Day in Edinburgh

    31st August 2023

    At a meeting of the City of Edinburgh Council today, Council Leader Cammy Day spoke of the importance of International Overdose Awareness Day (IOAD). IOAD takes place on 31 August each year to create better understanding of overdose, reduce the stigma of drug-related deaths, and create change that reduces the…

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  • Lord Provost reflects on twenty years of the One City Trust

    29th August 2023

    The Lord Provost of the City of Edinburgh, and President of the One City Trust (OCT), Robert Aldridge, looks back on two decades of the Trust and sets his sights on the future. I am immensely proud of the work that the OCT has undertaken in the last twenty years. Since…

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  • The One City Trust celebrates its 20th anniversary with Irvine Welsh, former Lord Provosts, and other key supporters

    29th August 2023

    A celebratory reception to mark the One City Trust’s (OCT) 20th Anniversary was held on Friday evening (August 25) at the City Chambers. The event, hosted by the Lord Provost of the City of Edinburgh and President of the One City Trust, Robert Aldridge, showcased the work of the Trust…

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  • Edinburgh recognises the past and looks to the future on UNESCO International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition

    25th August 2023

    A civic reception to recognise the UNESCO International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition (August 23) and to officially launch the work of the Edinburgh Slavery and Colonialism Review Implementation Group (ESCLRIG) was held yesterday evening (August 23) at the City Chambers. The event, hosted by the…

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  • St Mary’s RC Primary pupils get creative to encourage responsible parking in Leith

    23rd August 2023

    Primary school pupils in Leith have helped create colourful solutions to parking issues in the area, which they unveiled today (Tuesday 22 August). St Mary’s (Leith) RC Primary School P5 class shared a series of posters they’ve created to discourage people from parking in an area blocking communal bins on…

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  • Bringing Edinburgh’s LGBTQ+ stories into the light

    15th August 2023

    Museums & Galleries Edinburgh has recently completed a partnership project which aims to share Edinburgh’s unique stories of LGBTQ+ history with digital and real-life visitors. Curators have been working with Rowan Rush-Morgan, a PhD candidate at the University of Edinburgh, to make digital object records more accessible for audiences and…

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