Posted by James at 10.51am on 26 April 2012
This weekend the Granton Community Gardeners are welcoming visitors for two days of planting, pruning and digging over.
The gardens are open from 12 to 3pm on Saturday the 28th and Sunday the 29th. Everyone is welcome and no gardening skills are required. Children need to be accompanied by an adult.
You can find the gardens on the corner of Wardieburn Road and Boswell Parkway.
We hope to see you there!
Posted by James at 2.34pm on 16 April 2012
The Granton Community Gardeners have recently been awarded funding from the Edinburgh Lothian Greenspace Trust.
With the onset of Spring the garden has proved a challenge for the volunteers. There has been a lot to do preparing for planting and developing new spaces as the garden expands, so a little help was needed.
Granton volunteer Tom Kirby submitted a funding application to the Edinburgh Lothian Greenspace Trust to help with the hire of tools to tackle the heavy-duty work. As hale and hearty as the volunteers are, serious gardening needs things like rotavators and turf cutters to get on top of things. So Tom wrote to the trust to ask for their help funding the hire cost of the heavy gear, as well as to purchase more tools and seeds for the new season.
The trust has kindly agreed to provide £750 toward the cost which means the team in Granton can now really get to grips with the garden and take another step towards building a sustainable community.
Posted by James at 1.46pm on 2 April 2012
SEAD has joined the End Tax Haven Secrecy campaign which aims to achieve global tax transparency for the benefit of the world’s poor. The campaign is a coalition of like-minded organisations from around the world that work to influence governments, policy and to raise awareness of unfair tax practices.
Posted by James at 4.26pm on 1 December 2011
This video takes a look at the community food intiatives that SEAD supported as part of the NET Your Carbons project.
Posted by Jeni at 11.50am on 31 October 2011
at the Quaker Meeting House, 7 Victoria Terrace, Edinburgh EH1 2JL
We are please to announce we are doing a special screening of the most inspiring film ‘The Pipe’ which will start at 7pm after a short introduction. The Pipe is a compelling documentary film four years in the making, It tells the story of the small Rossport community in Ireland which has taken on the might of Shell Oil and the Irish State. The film will be followed by special guests, from the Shell to Sea and Rossport Solidarity Camp, who will talk about the campaign and the people involved with a Q & A session afterwards. Read the rest of The Power of Community – with Rossport Solidarity Camp and Shell to Sea Campaign …