Choose your themes for next year!

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Leithers, we need to hear from you, please!  We are planning for £eith Chooses 2026 now, but as per our ‘Community Conversation’ commitments, we would like YOU to determine which topics or themes ought to be given priority. In the past, some years we have had very ‘open’ themes, other years we have asked that all project applications for funding should be focused on particular areas/types of activity.

Here are a few suggestions. Please select the one (or those) that you like best, and/or add your own suggestions.

  1. Healthier and Safer Leith
  2. Culture and Creativity
  3. Greener, Cleaner Leith
  4. Nurturing Connections
  5. Other (your ideas)

Please email your choices and ideas directly to LeithChooses@edinburgh.gov.uk, with ‘Themes for 2026’ in the subject line)

Update, 31 March 2025

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Most of this year’s successful community groups will have received their £eith Chooses funding by now, from the Council Community Grants Fund, or very soon will, and will be starting on their project. We look forward to reporting more about these activities as they develop. Keep in touch and let us know of anything interesting going on, so we can pass that on to the Leith commuity.

Meanwhile the £eith Chooses Steering Group is analysing the feedback provided by voters and applicants on the day and via our recent online surveys, and working on plans to streamine and improve the £eith Chooses process in the future. Please get in touch at any time of you have any ideas, or would like to visit (or even join) the Steering Group.

Contact: LeithChooses@edinburgh.gov.uk

Leith Chooses needs you! Please help by filling in a short evaluation survey.

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Thank you to everyone who applied to and/or voted during Leith Chooses in 2024/25. We would be very grateful if you would complete a short survey about your experience as applicants and/or voters. These surveys should each take no more than 10 minutes to complete, and we would really value your feedback so we can keep working on improvements the Leith Chooses process for this coming financial year.

The surveys are open for feedback until Monday 31st March.

The £eith Chooses results are in!

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The £eith  Chooses 24/25 results are in!

Following the voting period, and after totting up all the votes casr by the Leith communiry, the groups that have been successful in receiving funding for their community projects are now revealed  (in no particular order):

  • Building Bridges
  • Leith Runs Together
  • Leith Community Growers
  • ELREC
  • Citadel Youth Centre
  • Association of Ukrainians in Great Britain
  • Hibernian Community Foundation
  • Dr. Bells Family Centre
  • Nepal Scotland Association
  • Edinburgh Remakery
  • Broughton Primary School Parent Council (partial award)

Congratulations to all of them, and wishing them the very best of luck in getting their projects up and running.

Commiserations to all those who were not successful on this occasion. We wish you well in all your other undertakings.

Warmest thanks to ALL who took part.

 

Results Night, 20th February, 6pm

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The results of the recent £eith Chooses will be announced Thursday 20th February, at the Leith Community Centre (cafe area) at 6pm. It is always exciting, to find out who has won funding for their projects – although it is also always upsetting when other great groups and great projects miss out…..

Come along, if you are free, or just check in online here after 8pm to see the list of groups that have been successful.

     

Last Chance Saloon! Vote online now!

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Online Voting is still live until Monday 3rd February!
Have you voted yet? www.edinburgh.gov.uk/voteleithchooses

If you didn’t manage to get to the in-person day at the Community Centre, you can still vote online. Even if you DID vote at the Comunity Centre, you can ALSO vote once online.

Please remind your friends, family and colleagues to vote, too. Everyone 8 years or older who lives, works, volunteers or attends school or college in Leith is eligible to vote.

Who to vote for?
You can browse the list of projects here, or on the voting site itself as you go through the voting process.

Please cast your votes now at www.edinburgh.gov.uk/voteleithchooses

Vote Online NOW!

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From 20th January to 3rd February 2025, online voting is open. Everyone 8 years or older who lives, works, volunteers or attends school or college in Leith is eligible to vote.

You get TWO voting opportunities – once at the live in-person voting day, and once online.

If you didn’t manage to get to the Voting Day on 18th January, you can still vote once online.
Even if you DID vote at the Community Centre, you can ALSO vote once online.

VOTE HERE
www.edinburgh.gov.uk/voteleithchooses

Please remind your friends, family and colleagues to vote, too.

Who to vote for?
You can find the list of 23 projects here, to check out who you want to vote for, or you will also have a chance to read about them as you go through the voting process.

VOTE HERE
www.edinburgh.gov.uk/voteleithchooses

You will need to give your Leith home post-code or street name to show you are eligible to vote. Or give your school name, or the address of your work or volunteeer work, if you don’t live in Leith.

£eith Chooses Vote on 18th January!

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Voting Day is on Saturday 18th January 2025. Do come along then to the Leith Community Centre in the Kirkgate, meet all the project applicants in person and learn about the projects, and then place your votes in the ballot box there and then.

It is a fun and sociable day. All welcome. Free refreshments are available. There is free face painting and a ‘smoothie bike’ for kids.

Come at 11am if you need / prefer a crowd-free ‘quiet’ voting experience. Otherwise, public voting opens at 12 midday (’til 3pm)

Online Voting
After the live voting day, there will be a further 2 weeks of online voting from 20th January – 3rd February. If you didn’t manage to get to the in-person day at the Community Centre, you can vote online. If you DID vote at the Comunity Centre, you can ALSO vote once online.

Please remind your friends, family and colleagues to vote, too. Everyone 8 years or older who lives, works, volunteers or attends school or college in Leith is eligible to vote.

Who to vote for?
You can find the list of 23 projects here, if you have time to browse through them and wise up before the voting day / period.

£eith Chooses goes live!!

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We have lift-off!

Happy to announce that we can now reveal to you all the exciting projects that are applying to £eith Chooses for funding, this year.

Deliberation
You can find the list of 24 projects here, and you have about 6 weeks to browse through all these projects and think about which you would like to vote for when the time comes. Remember to tell your friends, family and colleagues to have a look too.

Voting
Voting will open on Saturday 18th January 2025. You can come along to the Leith Community Centre on that day, and meet all the project applicants in person, and place your votes in the ballott box there and then.

Then there will be a further 2 weeks of online voting. If you didn’t manage to get to the in-person day at the Community Centre, you can vote online. If you DID vote at the Comunity Centre, you can ALSO vote once online.

Please remind your friends, family and colleagues to vote, too. Everyone who lives, works, volunteers or studies in Leith is eligible to vote.

Voting closes on Monday 3rd February 2025.

All Details must be received by 18th November

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Please would all applicants be sure to submit the final details that have been requested by the Council £eith Chooses team by 18th November at the latest, or their application may not be able to go forward. In many /most cases this is just a small matter of sending in quotes for planned costs over £300, and/or their organisation’s image  (for the online gallery of projects).

This will allow time for applicants to review the online gallery and accept or amend their project title before 1st December when the gallery describing all of the projects applying goes live for the public to view.

After that date, all organisations should start ‘canvassing’ for votes amongst their supporters and amongst the general public at large. Tell everybody about the project you hope to do, and keep reminding them to come along to the Voting Day and also to vote online, in January.