Category Archives: Community Councils of Leith

Voting is open now!

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£eith Chooses voting is OPEN NOW! Please vote, and please pass the word around!

How do I vote?

Easiest for many people is to vote online at www.edinburgh.gov.uk/voteleithchooses

Otherwise, pick up a paper voting paper at  any of the places listed below. (You can collect a voting form for someone else, but please do not photocopy forms, as each is invidually marked.) You can fill it in and deposit your vote on the spot there, or take a postage paid envelope and post it later.

McDonald Road Library
2-8 McDonald Road
Edinburgh
EH7 4LU		 Leith Library
28-30 Ferry Road
Edinburgh
EH6 4AE
Utilita
41 Newkirkgate
Edinburgh
EH6 6AA		 Out of the Blue Drill Hall
36 Dalmeny Street
Edinburgh
EH6 8RG
The Wee Hub (The Living Memory Association)
1st floor (former Debenhams)
Ocean Terminal shopping centre
74 Ocean Drive
EH6 6JJ

 

Six more sleeps…and we’re going postal!

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£eith Chooses voting opens next week, on Monday 16th January, and will run for 2 weeks. Have you checked out the projects yet, so you know who you will be voting for?
Have a look here

Great news! Although most people will vote online as usual, we have also reintroduced postal voting for folk who cannot easily access the internet. You can pick up a voting form at any of the places listed below. Please pass the word around!

You can collect a voting form for someone else, but please do not photocopy forms, as each is invidually marked.

McDonald Road Library
2-8 McDonald Road
Edinburgh
EH7 4LU		 Leith Library
28-30 Ferry Road
Edinburgh
EH6 4AE
Utilita
41 Newkirkgate
Edinburgh
EH6 6AA		 Out of the Blue Drill Hall
36 Dalmeny Street
Edinburgh
EH6 8RG
The Wee Hub (The Living Memory Association)
1st floor (former Debenhams)
Ocean Terminal shopping centre
74 Ocean Drive
EH6 6JJ

 

 

 

Get ready to vote!

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Happy New Year everyone!

January is £eith Chooses month! See all the projects here. 

Voting for your favourite £eith Chooses projects doesn’t open until 16th January 2023, but you can see in advance the projects that are applying for funding, so that you have time to think about which you feel will most benefit the community and which you will vote for, when the time comes.

Voting starts soon!

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The £eithChooses team sends the warmest of Christmas greetings and good wishes for the New Year to all Leithers!

Voting for your favourite £eith Chooses projects will open on 16th January 2023, but before that, all the great projects that are applying will be available for you to view here on this website, so that you have time to think about which you feel will most benefit the community.

We’ll let you know when the project gallery is open to view, on 2nd January 2023.
Meanwhile, best wishes to all!

Phew! An extra 2 weeks to get your application in!

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Due to the unexpected recent break in working patterns, for the Queen’s funeral events, we have extended the deadline for applications to £eith Chooses.

Please get your Application Form completed and in ASAP or at the very latest by 14th October 2022

Your project doesn’t need to be complicated. It needs to be deliverable in 12 months or less, and to offer clear benefits to members of the Leith community, especially some of our most vulnerable.

Get your application in!

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The time is NOW! If you want to be part of £eith Chooses in voting fortnight January 2023, you need to send your project outline in NEXT WEEK or as soon as humanly possible after that  –  a wee extension may be offered, thanks to the unexpected recent break in working patterns, for the Queen’s funeral events

Your project doesn’t need to be complicated. It needs to be deliverable in 12 months or less, and to offer clear benefits to members of the Leith community, especially some of our most vulnerable.

More money for community projects! Thank you TtN!

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£eith Chooses 2022-2023 is open to applications right now.  We have just had lovely news of a donation of £5,000 from Trams to Newhaven.  Thank you TtN!

Taken alongside the Council Community Grants and the donation of £3,000 from Port of Leith Housing Association, this brings the total grant pot up to £54,102, which means that more projects can be funded.

Hope your project ideas are flowing – now is the time to get your application together!

Sustaining Leith: supporting and protecting the most vulnerable in our community

Now is the time to apply to £eith Chooses

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You are encouraged to apply to £eith Chooses for a grant of up to £5,000 for your community project (to run from April 2023 to March 2024).
If you want advice on your idea  / application, please come along to talk to us at  McDonald Road Library (Learning Centre, upstairs),  4 – 5pm, Wednesdays the 14th, 21st, and 28th September.

Your project doesn’t need to be complicated. It just needs to be something that can be delivered within 12 months, that will help/support/protect vulnerable folk in Leith.

You need to be a constituted group with a bank account, or your smaller group could partner with such a group.

The people of Leith will vote in January 2023 on all the proposed projects, and the projects that gain the most votes will be awarded the funding.

Download your application form here  http://www.leithchooses.net/applications-needed-asap .

 

What projects could help the local community in Leith?

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If you are a constituted group with a bank account, please apply to £eith Chooses for a grant of up to £5,000 for your community project.

Your project doesn’t need to be complicated. It just needs to be something that can be delivered within 12 months, that will help/support/protect vulnerable folk in Leith.

The people of Leith will vote in January 2023 on all the proposed projects, and the projects that gain the most votes will be awarded the funding.

Download your application here  http://www.leithchooses.net/applications-needed-asap ‎

If you want advice on your application, please come along to McDonald Road Library (Learning Centre, upstairs) 4pm on Wednesday 31 August or Wednesday 7th September.

Need help with your application?

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£eith Chooses 2022-2023 is accepting applications up until 30 September.

Want to apply for funding (up to £5,000) but need some advice or help with your application?

Come along to the Learning Centre (upstairs at McDonald Road Library) and talk it over with a member of the Steering Group, who can advise you how best to frame your project application.
From 4pm
On Wednesday 31 August and / or Wednesday 7th September