The Edinburgh Association of Community Councils aims to provide support, advice and give a collective voice for community councils when facing the challenges community councillors encounter on an almost daily basis. All of Edinburgh’s Community Councils are invited to send a representative to the Association’s regular meetings. Booking information and other details can be found at the link below.
The Edinburgh Association of Community Councils aims to provide support, advice and give a collective voice for community councils when facing the challenges community councillors encounter on an almost daily basis. All of Edinburgh’s Community Councils are invited to send a representative to the Association’s regular meetings. Booking information and other details can be found at the link below.
Edinburgh Living Streets are hosting a free online public summit which will bring together community representatives, campaigners, councillors and government to look at how speeding on the city’s streets can be reduced. The aim is to make ‘Vision Zero’ – zero deaths and serious injuries – a practical reality for Edinburgh, not just a theoretical commitment. Speakers will include Lesley …
After a century and a half of discussion, planning and apparently endless piecemeal strategies about environmental ambitions the current climate emergency demands immediate achievable actions. This latest one-day FREE online Cockburn Conference on Saturday 30 October will discuss some of the many well-intended environmental and sustainability schemes, policy documents and political initiatives that have been produced over the last few decades …
The Cockburn Association has been organising this beloved annual free event in Edinburgh for over thirty years and for the last five in East Lothian. This year’s weekend will see over one hundred venues, businesses and organisations fling open the virtual OR actual doors to the public once again. Visit our specially created Doors Open Days page where you will …
Muriel Spark’s classic novel, ‘The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie’ was published 60 years ago on 5 October 1961, and it would become iconic in the public imagination. Celebrate this milestone with a free talk from the National Library of Scotland. The novel’s title character, ‘Miss Brodie’, was inspired by Spark’s teacher, Christina Kay, at James Gillespie’s School. Norma Allan, …
Renowned Scottish author Sara Sheridan talks to National Library of Scotland Curator Dora Petherbridge about her latest novel, The Fair Botanists. Set in Edinburgh in 1822, Sara’s latest novel The Fair Botanists has been brilliantly received by both readers and critics. Using the Royal Botanic Gardens Edinburgh’s and the National Library archives for research, she has created a story deeply embedded …
Football programmes have stories to tell about times, places and people, as well as football. They rekindle memories of a match, an awe-inspiring visit to Hampden Park, or standing on the terraces at Tynecastle, Easter Road or some far away field. But programmes also signify broad patterns of social and technological change. Hosted by the National Library of Scotland this …
Chaired by Jocelyn Cunliffe FRIAS, this afternoon seminar will host a series of speakers with presentations covering HES heritage priorities, Glasgow’s re-located structures, an approach to existing building retrofit and the sustainable, low energy refurbishment of traditional and historic buildings supported by case studies, application of the building regulations when considering the conversion of a listed office building to flats …
Scottish tenements, with their high density and location close to useful facilities, could already be considered sustainable. But when it comes to making tenements more sustainable in terms of energy usage, flat owners in a tenement community that work together can achieve so much more than single owners working on their own. Intended specifically for residents of Edinburgh, this special …
