Art & Culture

Web: https://opencollective.com/edinburgh-regenerative-practitioner-guild

An informal group for residents of Willowbrae to communicate local news, events, community efforts, tips to lead a more sustainable life, crime watch, and to offer mutual aid and support. This includes a Transition Streets group and Mothers CAN group, and links to the Eco group at the local Primary School. Community efforts include activities such as hand weeding streets to prevent Council from spraying glyphosate.

Choirs For Climate offers resources for any choirs who are passionate about the environment. Get new music for your choir to sing, find causes to support, pick up tips on becoming an eco-friendly choir, and much more.

supporting dance artists and engaging people with the benefits of dance

Causey Development Trust works to transform West Crosscauseway from a vehicle dominated street into a safer, more attractive street for people that incorporates a new public space respecting the heritage of its surrounding buildings on the boundary of the World Heritage site. It will reduce through vehicle traffic and support people’s health and well-being, encourage more walking , cycling and wheeling and create a space for community events.

We work in partnership with others to address the causes and effects of racism and to promote race equality. We aim to break down barriers to the full participation of minority ethnic communities in all aspects of civic life.

Dads Rock runs free groups, and services for Dads and Families in Edinburgh.

Architecture & Building Surveying support to the not for profit sector in aligning our built environment with our response to the various sustainability crises facing us.

Edinburgh & Lothians Regional Equality Council (ELREC), founded in 1971, is a company limited by guarantee and a registered charity made up of individual members and representatives from a wide range of organisations. ELREC is a member of the Scottish Alliance of Regional Equality Councils and has a remit to work across the areas of City of Edinburgh, East Lothian, Midlothian and West Lothian Councils. ELREC runs the Communities’ Reduce, Reuse & Recycle Project which is funded by Climate Action Fund (CAF), The National Lottery Community Fund. The aim of the project is to encourage and support BAME communities in Edinburgh to reduce waste, increase reusing and repairing and to shift to a more sustainable consumption.

We run and host a wide range of activities in Southside Community Centre, including a gardening group in the centre's grounds.

​Bridgend Farmhouse is a sustainable community-owned centre for learning, eating and exercise in South Edinburgh. We aim to grow together to develop a flourishing community and place.

We have halls, meeting rooms and desk space available for hire with a focus on supporting charities and social enterprise. We are open to collaborating with groups on community events.

The Salisbury Centre aims to offer a holistic and dynamic program of activities such as courses, workshops, lectures, meditations and one-to-one therapeutic work. Our intention is to provide an open, welcoming and accessible space to explore spiritual, psychological, and creative dimensions of being. We are committed to working towards ecological sustainability, in the belief that personal development goes hand in hand with awareness of the needs of the planet.