Tag Archives: 2023

Get help with planning your application for £eith Chooses 2023/24

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Time is passing – applications to £eith Chooses close on 10 October, only a month away…

Please come to a short session on Wednesday 20th September, at Norton Park Conference Centre, to get your £eith Chooses application into gear. The £eith Chooses team will be there to help you.

Please say whether you wish to attend 3-5pm session or 5:30-7:30pm, and sign up by emailing Jade Mooney at leithchooses@edinburgh.gov.uk

We will go through the application form to make sure everything is clear, point out frequently made mistakes, and have plenty of time to answer questions, discuss any points raised, and arrange further support etc. as required. Tea, coffee, biscuits etc. will be available.

Many thanks to Norton Park for hosting.

 

£eith Chooses Support Session for Applicants: 20 September

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If you are planning to apply to £eith Chooses this year, you are invited to attend a support session on Wednesday 20th September, at Norton Park Conference Centre.

We will go through the application form to make sure everythig is clear, point out frequently made mistakes, and have plenty of time to answer qustions, arrange further support etc. as required.

Please register and sign up by emailing Jade Mooney at leithchooses@edinburgh.gov.uk and please say whether you wish to attend 3-5pm or 5:30-7:30pm
Places are a bit limited (we are in a board room, not the main hall) so please book early, and please let us know if you have to cancel. Many thanks to Norton Park for hosting.

 

Open for applications – Support Session 20th September

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Have you started to think about your project application to £eith Chooses, yet? If you would like information and/or support with your application, there are various options.

Any or all of the following are available to you:

  1. Come to a group Support Session on Wednesday 20th September, with the £eith Chooses Team. The lovely folk at Norton Park have generously offered free use of their facilities. There will be two sessions; one from 3pm – 5pm and another from 5:30pm – 7:30pm. SAVE THE DATE! Let us know which session you’d like to attend and we will keep you a place.
  2. Email in and ask for the information you need and/or the kind of support that suits you best –
    – We can offer someone to visit you at your place of work or any place and time of your choosing to talk through your plans, privately.
    – You can ask for a  ‘mentor’. We can offer you a named person from the £eith Chooses Steering Group who will be your contact  link on an ongoing basis and can be available for regular consultations.

Getting started earlier rather than later is the best way to get the most out of  these support options

To follow up on all or any of these options, please email Jade Mooney at leithchooses@edinburgh.gov.uk

Meanwhile, download the 2023-2024 Application Form and Guidance Notes here:

Format Application Form Guidance Notes
DOCX Application form (DOCX format) Guidance notes (DOCX format)
DOC Application form (DOC format) Guidance notes (DOC format)
PDF Application form (PDF format) Guidance notes (PDF format)

A Community Conversation – come and join!

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3rd May – hold the date! The £eith Chooses team invites you to a Leith community ‘away day’ event (free lunch and refreshments).
This one day event will be a chance to network with other local charities and community groups, and to talk about common goals or potential collaborations for £eithChooses or other grant opportunities. Organisations that have applied to £eith Chooses in the past, or that may consider a future application, are invited, as are groups/individuals interested in integrating into, volunteering and supporting the Leith community.

When: Wednesday, May 3 (10am-4pm)
Where: Norton Park Conference Centre

This is not a drop-in day. Please follow the link below to register for the event:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/engaging-eithchooses-a-community-conversation-tickets-592662047137

We hope to have a relaxed and sociable ‘get together’ that may in some part help to replace the much-missed £eithChooses Voting day event, cancelled in recent years due to Covid.

It will also be an opportunity for the £eithChooses steering group and Edinburgh Council to hear from you about whether/how £eithChooses is working for you. We’d love to get feedback on this year’s vote. Your experience and knowledge of the needs of Leith can also feed into next year’s voting themes.

The day is supported by funding from

 

Voting results and analysis 2022-2023

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There is a short breakdown of the 2022-2023 voting process, voter numbers and some basic interpretation of voting patterns on this Overview page

Find the list of projects that won funding, based on the number of votes received.

£eith Chooses 2022-2023 Results

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In all, 20 projects applied to £eith Chooses this year, and the total amount of money requested amounted to £86,802. But of course, as there was only £54,102 available, sadly not every group that applies could be successful in winning funding. Based on the number of votes received from members of the Leith community, 12 projects will receive full funding. Congratulations to all!

Sadly, there are 8 groups that were not successful this year. If your name isn’t on this list below, it means your group has not been succesful in winning funding on this occasion. Commiserations – this is very disappointing, but please don’t be too discouraged;  your participation is really valued, and hopefully that your time will come sometime soon.

This year, £eith Chooses will fund the following 12 community groups in Leith:

Association of Ukrainians in Great Britain (AUGB)
Edinburgh Community Food, and Leith Walk Police Box
Edinburgh NE Foodbank
Dr. Bells Family Centre
Sikh Sanjog
Central Leith After School Club (CLASP)
Edinburgh Tool Library
Hermitage Park School Association
Edinburgh Remakery
Himalayan Centre
ELREC
YMCA Edinburgh

We will publish more details on this website later on.

Results Night, Wednesday 15th February at 6:30pm, online

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The Results / Awards Night for £eith Chooses 2022-23 will be held online on Wednesday 15th February at 6:30pm. Please get the date and time in your diary!

We tried to arrange a live, face to face event, but fell foul of the mid-term holiday and Council ‘Recess’ period, so  – rather than further delay – we are going online again this time, via Teams.

If you have not yet received an invitation and link to the meeting, please email and request one, from: caroline.lamond@edinburgh.gov.uk

This will not be a long meeting but will be the first publication of the list of those local community groups that have won community  funding this year, thanks to your votes. the list will also be published online, here, immediately following the meeting.

Results are coming!

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The Results / Awards Night for £eith Chooses 2022-23 will be held online on Wednesday 15th February at 6:30pm. Please get the date and time in your diary!

We tried to arrange a live, face to face event, but fell foul of the mid-term holiday and Council ‘Recess’ period, so  – rather than further delay – we are going online again this time, via Teams.

Do please join us, to hear which groups have been successful in winning funding. All applicants and friends of £eith Chooses will be sent a link for the event very soon, or you can get in touch to request a link if you have not heard in a day or two.

Votes are being counted

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£eith Chooses voting has now closed and vote counting is in progress. Results will be announced as soon as possible, in the next couple of weeks.

Many thanks to all who took the trouble to vote, you have done a good thing, for the benefit of the community in Leith.