28th November is the 333rd day in the year, and we are running our 11th Saturday volunteer session. If you would like to help out for a couple of hours of park maintenance, please meet Alison at 10am on 28 November at the Cricket Pavilion off Melville Drive. Rubbish is rearing its ugly head, so litter picks …
Re-Union Canal Boats and Fountainbridge Canalside Initiative are planning to create a community-led organisation that combines enterprise and creativity to improve the quality of life for people living, and coming to live, in our area.
Hello! We are Tommy and Jane. We recently started this project after living near the unused police box at the end of Leamington Terrace (near Gilmore Place). We wanted to be creative about imagining its potential. Convert a rusting box into a community resource The police box has been unused for years and is slowly …
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As the Merchiston Community Council has a corporate membership with FOMBL, we would like to share the following from FOBML: We are so pleased to be able to convene again and do our bit to maintain the Meadows and Bruntsfield Links. Individual Fombls have been out and about, weeding and mulching trees, picking up litter and …
Friends of the Meadows & Bruntsfield Links – Next Volunteer Session Saturday 25 July Read More »
In a recent blog post Shaping a resilient future for Edinburgh, Daisy Narayanan has raised questions on what might be Edinburgh’s “new normal” in the wake of Covid-19: As we look ahead to the next few months, Edinburgh’s citizens will need to build individual and collective resilience to deal with significant challenges. How we continue …
Places and Communities: Envisioning Edinburgh after Covid-19 Read More »
Fountainbridge Canalside Initiative (FCI) are holding their AGM at 6.30 pm on 12th March 2020 at King’s Church Hall, 104 Gilmore Place, EH3 9PL. Do come along and find out what we have been up to this year. Projects that we have been working on include: producing the Green Plan for Fountainbridge; Green Cruises on …
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