Grange Fair is this Saturday afternoon

New information boards in Grange Cemetery

The Grange Association have provided new information boards in Grange Cemetery showing famous people buried there.  

Grange Association Fair at Newington Library, Fountainhall Road 1.00pm to 4.30pm on Saturday 9 May

Everyone is welcome to come along to an afternoon of fun and entertainment. Stalls, bouncy castle, music, dancing displays, cycling fun – under 12s bring your bike – and more. Any profit will go to Newington Library for children’s craft materials and the Eric Liddell Centre. To make the event a success help is required: Could you volunteer to be a steward on the day? Do you have anything you could donate for these stalls?    Collectables    Books and DVDs    Tombola Please put any items you can donate in the box in the library vestibule when it reopens at Easter, or if you would like them collected that’s no problem. There will also be a plant stall and donations will be welcomed nearer the time. Could you start potting up spare plants now? Contact Lucy Richardson, 0131 662 4992, with offers of help, or a request to collect donated items. No jumble or clothing please. For more information go to:- http://gaedin.co.uk/wp Supported by the South Central Neighbourhood Partnership, City of Edinburgh Council.

Agenda for MSCC meeting on We 25 Mar 2015 at 7:30pm

Marchmont & Sciennes Community Council will hold its March meeting on We 25 Mar 2015, at 7:30pm.  

The meeting will take place in our usual venue of St Catherine's Argyle Church halls on Beaufort Road/ Grange Road. 

This will be our sixth meeting of 14/15.  We will continue our regular practice of meeting on the fourth Wednesday of the month until Jun 2015, and then take a break till Sep 2015.

All who live or work in the area are most welcome to attend 

A G E N D A

 1            Sederunt and apologies

 2            Draft Minutes of last meeting, 25 Feb 2015 and matters arising (not otherwise on Agenda)

                ·      Food recycling bins

                ·       Objection to the planning application - timber siding at 31 Hatton Place

                ·      Events/ Marches/ Rentals

                ·      Plans for Royal Hospital for Sick Children site

 3             Police Report

 4            Update on Meadows from Mike Shields 

Items for discussion

 5            New planning applications

 6            Edinburgh Association of Community Councils  

 7            Houses of Multiple Occupation (HMOs) and SUSCOMS

 8            Astley Ainslie redevelopment

 9            Gravestones in Grange Cemetery

Items mainly for information

10             Treasurer’s report

11            Road safety outside JGPS (letter)

12            Reports of meetings

                 ·      James Gillespie’s Parent Council

                 ·      Neighbourhood Partnership

                 ·      Grange Association

13            Light-controlled crossing on Marchmont Road

14            AOCB

15            Date of next meeting: 22 April 2015

Grange Fair on 11 May: Can you help?

Grange Association AGM - We 14 Mar at 7:30pm

The Grange Association are holding their Annual General Meeting this coming Wed (14th) at Marchmont St Giles Church on Kilgraston Road. 


Doors open at 7.00 pm for the AGM at 7.30 pm. 

A review of the year’s activity will be undertaken followed by a short presentation on The Stonework of the Grange by Richard Groom.
  
All are Welcome

Grange Association Newsletter for Winter 2011 now available

The winter 2011 edition of the Grange Association Newsletter is now available.

Grange Association AGM: 7pm on We 24 Feb at Marchmont St Giles

The Grange Association will hold their Annual General Meeting (followed by a talk:“A Capital Story: Edinburgh’s history in a nutshell” by Dr Graeme Cruickshank on Wednesday 24 February at 7.00pm at Marchmont St Giles Church Hall, Kilgraston Road. 


Both Grange Association members and visitors are welcome.  


Please note that a MSCC Community Engagement event is on the same evening at that time in the German Speaking Church on Chalmers Crescent.