Part of Organised Outdoor Community Play Fund.
North Edinburgh Arts (NEA) has established itself as a trusted community anchor for Muirhouse, West Pilton and the surrounding neighbourhoods. NEA acts as the creative hub for the local area, as a centre for social exchange and as an informal one-stop shop for community support.
NEA have been delivering outdoor play, gardening and creative sessions for children in our garden since 2013. Following from this, they have run the North Edinburgh Play Rangers since 2015, engaging with hundreds of children every year, many of whom do not attend NEA’s creative programmes and who would be deemed “hard to reach”. NEA take the play and creativity to their spaces, thus broadening our reach locally, as well as exposing these young people to the possibilities of our programme.
Inspiring Scotland invites tenders to undertake a locality needs assessment for services responding to violence against women and girls. Glasgow East Women’s Aid in Easterhouse recently ceased operating bringing to an end their domestic abuse service and delivery of community gender-based violence (GBV) services in the area. This leaves a gap in direct frontline service
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We recently brought together organisations to host an event looking at where kinship care currently is in Scotland and where it needs to be to support young people and their wider families to thrive. The kinship care landscape in Scotland “We need to do more for kinship carers and children” Since 2016, Inspiring
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Earlier this month, some of the Inspiring Scotland Thrive Outdoors team, alongside partners hosted a workshop at the Power of Sport and Physical Activity Conference. The conference, held at Easterhouse Community Hub, marked 10 years since the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games, and looked to celebrate the power of sport and physical activity for people to
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