Castles in the Sand

Pulse of the Place need your vote this Saturday at Leith Community Centre.

£eith Chooses - Sat 23rd February.
WE NEED YOUR VOTE TO GAIN FUNDING FOR A BRAND NEW PROJECT

If you can spare the time we would appreciate you giving us you vote at Leith Chooses this Saturday (23rd Feb) at £eith Community Centre. The vote is open from 12pm - 3pm, we will have a stall with Fergus, Beth and Sandra all encouraging people to vote.

To vote you must either live or access a service within the Leith Area. If you live in Leith (EH6) then you will be able to give your own postcode. Our postcode is EH6 8RG

Age for voting: You must be over 8 years old to vote. :)

Please spread the word and come down say 'hello' and vote for us..

VOTE - PULSE OF THE PLACE Project: Stand-Up for Young People

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Leith Chooses Vote on 23rd February 2019 at Leith Community Education Centre (12-3pm) - Vote for Pulse of the Place

We need you vote to ensure Youth Samba Drumming can continue in Leith with Pulse of the Place

We need your votes on March 3rd and then on-line afterwards, please share

Duncan Place Resource Centre... what should have been... complete with woodwork room, IT suite and theatre space... an accessible building for community use

Duncan Place as we knew it is no more. A building that needed some work suddenly became unsafe. Although CLD workers and clerical workers knew a year ahead of closure.
The woodwork room and drama studio have gone, as has the creative design for the new block that funding was put aside for in 2009. Councillor Gordon Munro came to events at the centre at least twice a year, but didn't argue for the funds to be released when Head of Children and Families Department, Mike Rosendale, ringfenced the monies.
Apparently Councillor Chas Booth is looking into how a building got into such a state, but will he be able to access the property log which detailed requests for maintenance or the emails asking for windows to be fixed. Or will he get access to the report that said that the community part of the building was structurally sound. Up until Feb 2013 neither Chas Booth or Adam Mcvey visited the building.
The new Duncan Place is only a shadow of what existed... for many of the the young people the building and what they used died.

Hopefully the building will serve a community use and the Community Access To Schools programme will create adequate space.

My guess is that the building will never quite be what it was, but will develop a new identity. It should not be forgotten that HMIe gave two groups at the centre an award of excellence...that Stevenson College ESOL provision and A.R.Ts Afternoon's Pulse of the Place. Both organisation continue to provide a quality service.
The Duncan Place Resource Centre that was... Was the 'Place To Be'.. If the new Duncan Place is a fraction as good as the old one... it'll do okay...
New centre users be careful of Councillors that want to use it to promote themselves and not what you need.... Good Luck

A view of what was meant to be...

The beat goes on...

It's our big Christmas Gig today... 2:30pm at St Andrews Sq.... The challenge to the audience is to see if you can applaud louder than we drum....