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Our Streets

Last month the Causey held an event called 'Our Streets’ which was a multimedia project about Active Travel and reclaiming urban spaces for pedestrian use.

 

Two of the art works are on display in our cafe, please do pop into the centre and have a look!

Bench mystery solved!

In early March the City of Edinburgh Council delivered to us a bench, they were not sure where it belonged and have had it in storage for a good few months.

Having done some research, I managed to track down and make contact with the person named on the bench - Liz Landsman.

Liz let me know that the bench was installed in Lauriston Castle Gardens some years ago, as part of a cancer awareness campaign. The inscription says -'Liz Landsman loved sitting here and still does thanks to research into cancer'. And includes details of how to donate to Cancer Research UK. Liz was pleased to hear that the bench has been well cared for.

We've let the Council know where the bench belongs, and we hope they will return it to its lovely setting in due course.

We're Listening

Thank you to everyone who has taken part, we're looking looking through and thinking over all the responses we have received, we'll provide a fuller update next month.

Southside Connections

Having been award to provide activities around bringing local people together on a regular basis to address loneliness and isolation we're currently looking for one or two activity workers so we can start these activities as soon as possible.

 

We'll keep you updated and will have more news for you next month!

Room & hall hire charges

It has been some time since our room and hall hire charges have been reviewed.  During this time our costs have increased (insurances, janitorial charges, employee costs etc).

As such, we have agreed a new schedule of charges which apply to all new booking requests. To be very clear, any bookings already arranged with us will be honoured until the summer.

 

Our new charges are;

 

Core hours (Monday to Thursday from 9am until 8:30pm, and Friday from 9am until 3:30pm.

 

Non core hours (Friday from 3:30pm onwards and all day Saturdays & Sundays.

At weekends bookings must be at least four hours. And there is a minimum spend of £32 per hour at weekends, for the time being, until we employ our own janitors.

 

If you have any concerns around the new charges please do not hesitate to reach out to us.

Would you like to support us to raise funds AND be in with a chance of winning a cash prize?

 

We are now part of Edinburgh Community Lottery. 

Each lottery ticket costs only £1 per week;

 

There is a 1 in 50 chance of winning a prize.

 

OM Music Sanctuary

Every Wednesday from 1pm in our cafe

Come along to Goodies Cafe, within Southside Community Centre, to hear music and singing from OM Music Sanctuary.

 

A wide variety of music is played, and songs sung! 

It's free to come along to watch, listen and even join in!

Hall

Our hall is available for bookings seven days a week.

The spacious hall is ideal for a range of activities such as conferences, public meetings and the performing arts. And is often used for ceilidhs.
 

We'd be happy to let you have a tour of our hall, just get in touch with us.

And we are more than happy to talk to anyone who has ideas about an event or activity they wish to run in the hall.

In our front garden is a map of the local area, have you stopped to have a look at it before? If not, it is well worth doing so.

The map was developed some years ago, and details twenty four places of interest, starting at our very own Community Centre and ending at nearby Nelson Hall.

We're looking into getting some paper based maps of the trail available in the centre, watch this space!