ELREC awarded funding from Paths for All

Edinburgh & Lothians Regional Equality Council (ELREC) awarded funding to get Scotland cycling. ELREC Cycling Club has received £22,000 of funding from Scottish walking charity Paths for All – Smarter Choices, Smarter Places Programme in a bid to encourage people to change their behaviours to drive less and to walk or cycle as part of […]
International Mother Language Day event 2023

Wonderfull International Mother Language Day event today at City Chambers, The City of Edinburgh Council. Our warmest thank you to the guest speakers: Councillor Robert Aldridge Rt. Hon. Lord Provost and Lord Lieutenant of the City of Edinburgh, Foysol Choudhury MSP for Lothian, Professor Emeritus and Chancellor of Heriot-Watt University Sir Geoff Palmer, Antonella Sorace […]
Forest Bound – Art Exhibition Opening Event

Thrilled to see so many people attending the Forest Bound – Art Exhibition Opening Event yesterday. Forest bound was a partnership between UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology and ELREC, and funded by Natural Environment Research Council. The project emphasized the importance of making forests and green spaces accessible to ethnic minority communities as research […]
Swap Shop event

Communities’ Reduce Reuse & Recycle Project: Delighted to have had a very successful Swap Shop event last Saturday. 250 people attended the event and 531.6kg of clothes, books, shoes, kitchen utensils, plastic, and more were donated and redirected to the local community which now will reuse them. Our deepest gratitude to our group of dedicated […]
International Mother Language Day 2023

We would like to invite you to join the celebration of International Mother Language Day 2023. International Mother Language Day (IMLD) was proclaimed by UNESCO and observed every year since 2000 to promote linguistic and cultural diversity and multilingualism. This year the speakers include Councillor Robert Aldridge Rt. Hon. Lord Provost and Lord Lieutenant of […]
Sewing Club

Thrilled to see the Sewing Club participants developing amazing sewing projects. A big well done to Alana for making a very elegant coat with donated fabric, and to Melba for making a beautiful tote bag with fabric remains. Would you like to join the sewing classes as well? The sewing club take place every Monday […]
‘Forest Bound – adaptation, resilience, and uncertainty’ – Art Exhibition

Forest Bound is a project working to engage Edinburgh-based ethnic minority groups with forest landscapes by using art-science approaches. The project aims to create spaces where communities that face additional barriers to access nature/outdoor spaces can interact with forests. We organised forest walks and a workshop session where we used visual arts to explore people’s connection to […]
Big Swap Event

Come along Saturday 4th February 2023 at St Martins Church (232 Dalry Rd, Edinburgh, EH11 2JG) to find some great clothes, toys, books, DVDs, kitchen utensils, and other stuff for FREE! Grab your free ticket asap: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/…/big-swap-shop-event… All welcome!! At the event, you will find clothes and other useful items in need of a new […]
£eithChooses Gallery

Support the Conscious Living Project with your vote in the Leith Chooses voting from 16th to 29th January! The Leith Chooses presents 20 community projects in Leith that can receive funding support with your votes. The aim of the project is to promote wellbeing and mental health care as well as raise environmental awareness in […]
Join our conversations about how the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh used to care for people by enslaving other people

Can you imagine working for years, controlled by threat of violence, treated as less than human, unpaid and unable to leave? Recent research, funded by The NHS Lothian Charity tells the story of how, for decades, the first Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh owned enslaved people of African descent on its property in Jamaica. The profits […]